A mum who tripped over in the garden while playing with her kids suffered a knee dislocation and ended up losing her leg after it turned black.
Deanna Crump, 31, from Michigan, in the US, was running around with her children - Isaac, one, and Jerry, three - when she tripped and fell, dislocating her right knee, on August 14.
She said her leg was "hanging there" and when she arrived at hospital doctors found she had fractured both bones that connect to her knee, had multiple torn ligaments, damaged arteries, and they were unable to "find a pulse" in her leg and foot.
Blood clots were also discovered when she had emergency surgery and it wasn't until a third operation that medics were successful in repairing Deanna's arteries and she regained the pulse and blood flow in her leg and foot.
But she then began to internally bleed and was reportedly close to dying when an artery was nipped in her stomach during a further operation and she needed a blood transfusion.
More blood clots were found and her foot and toes started "turning black" with doctors saying her leg was "dying" as blood pumped to it started to change colour.
Doctors said there was nothing more they could do after a week and she had her leg amputated from the knee down.
Now learning to live without her limb, Deanna is living one day at a time.
Deanna,from Down River, said: "I am super thankful to be alive and to be at home with my husband and kids. I just tripped and looked down. I was in extreme pain and my leg was just hanging there.
"We called 911 and the ambulance came and picked me up as my husband, Jerry, 38, was at home with the kids, it wasn't like he could pack the car and take them. When I first got to the hospital, they were trying anything and everything they could to get the pulse back in my foot - as I still had feeling in my leg and toes."
After being in hospital for a week, the doctors decided there is nothing more they could do for Deanna and she was transferred to Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, US.
She said: "I got there, and they gave me a CT scan right away, they said there was nothing they could do for me.
"My foot and toes were turning black, and my leg was dead.
"They said they would either have to amputate above or below the knee - they decided above the knee is what they had to amputate."
Deanna was given 45 minutes to process the news before she was rushed to surgery.
She said: "It destroyed me, all I kept thinking was 'is this my life? Emotionally I am destroyed over it, physically I am over a month post-amputation, and I am still in pain every day."
Deanna continued: "Honestly, the nurses at the hospital made it better, it was an up and down rollercoaster of emotions. They wanted me to get up and out of bed and I was there yelling saying I couldn't, but I did it and when I did, I was very happy."
She is expected to be fitted with a prosthetic by the end of the year.
"When I got home, I had a few bad days at first, lying in bed all day and crying but over the last week or so I am starting to feel better, getting up and going outside again with my family," she said.
"Right now, I am on the rollercoaster ride going up, I can finally look myself in the mirror and I didn't look at it for two days after the surgery.
"The day we came home it was nothing but sunshine and then halfway home it was like a monsoon, pouring down with rain - it was a beautiful mess. I did not care I was so happy to be home."
Deanna now does physical therapy twice a week.
She has set up a GoFundMe page to put towards house renovations and supporting the family while her husband, Jerry, 38, a kindergarten teacher, is off work caring for her.
