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Chicago mom's leg was amputated by propeller after boat sucked her raft underwater

A Chicago woman wassucked under a passing boat on Lake Michigan last weekend, and apropeller cut off both of her legs..

Lana Batchil, 34, a married mother of two, was spending Saturday with friends by the water in the so-called "playpen" area of ​​the lake when the disaster struck. rice field.

Batochir and his companions were floating on a raft when a rental boat anchored nearby broke down and began to drift, according to the Department of Natural Resources.

The boat's captain reversed the boat and sucked the float with Batchill and his companions into it. The woman's husband was in another boat and was dragging a raft behind it,[13] she reported,[14] CBS News.

Batochir and her friends were spending time in the "Playpen" area on Lake Michigan in Chicago on Saturday when they had a run-in with another boat.
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A propeller severed both of the woman's feet and she nearly drowned, but was rescued by her husband.
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"It all happened so fast. We were all under his boat in seconds," Batteel said of the GoFundMe she launched this week. Wrote in the campaign description.

Batchill said she felt "unimaginable pain" when the boat's propeller hit her.

"I thought I was going to die," she said. "I fought for my life for seconds that felt like minutes. I started drowning. I couldn't swim."

"I will never forget his pained face," said the man. the woman is writing "I made eye contact, but I couldn't stay awake and really started to drown. I felt myself drifting like an object and I knew I was going to die."