A woman lost her leg after getting her foot trapped in a grid cover while on a night out with friends.
Lizzie Hindle-Newman, 27, dislocated her right knee, cutting off blood to a major artery, after she got her trainer caught while walking in Manchester last November.
She was rushed to hospital and underwent 16 hours of surgery to transfer a vein from her left thigh to her right leg.
Ms Hindle-Newman spent six days in intensive care and has since undergone a further nine surgeries and skin grafts.
Sadly all of this was not enough, and doctors amputated her leg above her knee earlier this month after her foot began to die and she experienced terrible pain.
Ms Hindle-Newman, from Wythenshawe, Manchester, now lives in a flat above a pub with her wife Michelle, 36, where they work after they moved from their previous home following the accident.
She said: ‘I just hope one day I’ll be able to go for a beach walk with my family again.
‘At the moment, I don’t have any emotion. I have a lot of anxiety towards my stump.
‘I have to shuffle on my bum to get around – my hands have started to hurt because I’m putting all my weight on them.
‘I get agonising phantom pains from when the leg was there – sometimes they bring me to tears.’
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Michelle rushed to be with Ms Hindle-Newman when she heard she had been hurt and found her on the floor.
She said Ms Hindle-Newman had only had a couple of drinks.
Michelle, who got married in 2017, added: ‘It was an absolutely horrific accident. Lizzie was screaming in pain.
‘She had Vans on and there was a little gap in front of a grid.
‘As she’d walked, her foot got stuck, her knee snapped forward and the main artery got caught.
‘She blacked out when the ambulance came. She doesn’t really remember much from the ketamine and morphine.’
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Ms Hindle-Newman is trying to stay positive and has thanked Michelle and her family and friends for their support.
She will soon begin physiotherapy and hopes to talk to other amputees in the future to give them hope.
Ms Hindle-Newman’s sister Angelica has started a fundraiser to raise money for her rehabilitation.
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