Her mother reportedly lost both legs after her boat crashed into a raft on Lake Michigan.
Police responded to reports earlier this month that "two boats collided with people trapped below," Chicago Police Department Marine Ark Pacinik said Monday.
One of her victims was "hanging in the middle of the boat." First responders found "both legs amputated," he said Pachnik.
34-year-old Lana Batochir revealed herself as a victim on her GoFundMe page published earlier this week. She is his wife and mother of two children. A Chicago woman said August 13 changed her life forever.
"My husband and I took a friend's boat to a Chicago playground. We were all hanging out on it until it happened,” writes Batchill.
"A reckless boat driver ran full speed backwards on the inflatable raft and destroyed everything in its path."
I remembered that everyone on the raft was below. other boats within seconds.
"The boat propeller hit me and left me in unimaginable pain. I thought I was dying," she wrote. "I fought for my life for seconds that felt like minutes. I began to drown and could not swim." , said she saw her husband desperately looking for her.
"We made eye contact but couldn't stay awake and really started to drown. I felt myself drifting like an object, and I knew I was going to die," she said. I admit that
She ``glanced at her legs as she was being pulled into the boat and found that both of her legs were missing,'' she wrote.
She was taken to Northwestern Memorial Hospital. On Monday, she was scheduled to have both legs amputated below the knee and had to target muscle reinnervation surgery. But I still feel so lucky to be alive,” she wrote.
A second victim was injured in a horrific boating accident where, according to Constable Raul Echevarría, the victim's hand was "badly amputated."
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