A British yoga instructor has said she is lucky to be alive after she was sliced by a boat propeller while snorkeling in Mexico on a dream vacation with her husband.
Amor Armitage, 37, said it was a “miracle” that she survived the horrific crash on December 1. 17 Swimming in the azure waters off Cozumel, the exotic island is renowned for its world-class diving.
Armitage described the nightmarish ordeal on his website, yogabasingstoke.com.
She said it all started when she was snorkeling and snorkeling while her husband, Chase, a movie stuntman who was working on an American film.
The yoga instructor said she decided to get back on the boat and was about to climb the ladder when the boat’s engine roared.
“When I hold on to the ladder, I take out a fin, the captain of the boat does not see me, I suddenly realize that the boat has started to move and I am unable to say anything, words are not just didn’t come out like frozen fear [sic] me,” Armitage wrote.
“Everything seems to be slowing down as I feel the boat’s propeller hitting my abdomen, my genitals and my legs, my body is heavy and I see the boat moving away from me, from my guts comes a visceral cry, asking for help. ‘help, the captain sees me, but I know I have to swim to the boat, so with cuts all over my body, I managed to swim to the ladder again,’ she continued .
Armitage said the captain told her she had to “climb the ladder”, but she “looked down and saw me from the inside”.
“God had to hold me (through the push of stress hormones) that helped push me to the boat as my leg feels broken, my body feels crippled and I feel pain that’s out of this world,” she said.
Armitage eventually returned to the boat, where she said her husband’s words and love kept her alive on the trip to the hospital.
“He did his best to keep me with him and I really feel that without my angel Chase I wouldn’t be here today,” she added.
But it was a blood clot that was the real miracle.
“It seems that during the accident I had a blood clot in my femoral artery which prevented me from losing too much blood both during transport to the hospital and during surgery,” revealed Armitage.
“Without it, I would have lost a lot of blood,” Armitage said.
The yoga instructor said she was also lucky that the helix didn’t reach any of her organs – and that she had an “extra artery”.
The extra blood vessel ‘allowed blood to flow through the whole leg and foot,’ she said, adding that ‘not everyone has this artery, so the doctors were really happy and so was I.’ .
Armitage underwent three surgeries and 10 blood transfusions after the horrific crash.
She described part of her inner thigh as “completely scrambled” and her quadriceps, tendons and shin bone as “severed”.
Dec. On February 29, she gave an update in which she was still taking antibiotics, painkillers and “a lot of medication”.
She wrote that she had “cried a lot and smiled too”.
“I am at peace, fully accepting what happened and knowing the Universe has a divine plan for me through this,” she said.
Armitage said she should be ready to return to the UK at the start of the month, but “the road to recovery will be slow” and “the hospital bills are huge”.
She added that the couple had no insurance during the ill-fated trip.
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