Indiana mom loses legs protecting children from tornado

[Bateluer]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/06/indiana-mom-loses-legs-saving-kids-from-tornado/?hpt=hp_c3

Just minutes before the tornado swept through, Decker and her young son and daughter huddled in the basement. She covered them with a blanket to try to shield them from debris.

"I was reaching around, holding them and trying to keep everything away from them so it wouldn't hit 'em," Stephanie Decker told CNN affiliate WLKY.

The wreckage broke seven of her ribs and almost completely severed both of her legs.

"I had two steel beams on my legs, and I couldn't move. I was stuck," she told WLKY.

Then, another storm came roaring through. She again covered her children the best she could, taking the brunt of the debris as her home collapsed around her.

Joe Decker said his wife relayed some of the horror on an iPad, because when he first saw her, she was on a ventilator and unable to speak, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.

As the storm rolled through, Stephanie Decker told her husband, she turned and saw a large piece of debris begin to collapse. She pulled her daughter away just before it came crumbling down, according to the newspaper.

"She just kind of grabbed her and turned," Joe Decker told the Courier Journal. "She doesn't remember anything after that."

"Everything started hitting my back. Beams, pillars, furniture. Everything was just slamming into my back. But I had my children in the blanket, and I was on top of them, and I was reaching around holding them," Stephanie Decker told CNN affiliate WTHR. "And they are screaming, 'Mommy, I can't live without you! I don't want to die! Please don't let me die!' And I said, 'You're not going to die. We're going to make it.' "

Survivors though, all of them.

 

[djnsmith7]

Oh my gosh...horrible story...damn these tragedies...I'm glad they made it...Life will never be the same for them or their loved ones.

 

[Anubis]

that is horrid and yet amazing that she didnt bleed out

 

[waggy]

that is horrid and yet amazing that she didnt bleed out

yeah


its been a bad year for tornado's.

 

[William Gaatjes]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/06/indiana-mom-loses-legs-saving-kids-from-tornado/?hpt=hp_c3





Survivors though, all of them.

She deserves a medal even though it is natural mother instinct.
Are these stories not the ones that makes you think : "I wish i could just fix that person and heal all occurred tissue damage."

 

[wirednuts]

that is just horriffic