Lindsey Vonn is opening up about extra about her leg harm from her 2026 Winter Olympics crash earlier this month.
The 41-year-old skier had an terrible accident whereas competing within the winter video games, which resulted in a posh tibia fracture and extra, as she is now sharing extra particulars.
After a number of surgical procedures in Italy and weeks within the hospital there, she was transported again to the USand is now out of the hospital, however is staying in a lodge earlier than going dwelling.
In a brand new video, Lindsey defined extra to the extent of her harm, revealing she virtually misplaced her leg utterly.
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“Mainly I had a posh tibia fracture… all the things was in items,” she stated, including that she suffered compartment syndrome, the place there was an excessive amount of blood in an space of her leg that crushed muscular tissues and nerves.
She then thanked her physician, Tom Hackett, who “saved my leg.”
“He saved my leg from being amputated,” she shared. “He did what’s known as a fasciotomy, the place he lower open each side of my leg and sort of filleted it open… let it breath and, um, he saved me.”
“I all the time discuss all the things occurs for a motive, but when I wouldn’t have torn my ACL… Tom wouldn’t have been there,” Lindsey added. “He wouldn’t have been in a position to save my leg. So I really feel very fortunate and grateful for him.”
She additionally famous that she had “low hemoglobin from the blood lack of all of the surgical procedures,” and was “actually struggling, ache was a bit uncontrolled. I needed to have a blood transfusion, and that helped me rather a lot. I turned the nook and now I’m out.”
Lindsay added that she’s obtained a protracted highway to go along with restoration, however she’s taking it “one step at a time.”
In one other current publish, Lindsey hit again at haters who known as her egocentric for returning to the Olympics.