A woman who lost an arm and a leg after being hit by two trains has explained that she was told she could have died "at least 10 times" on the night of the accident.
Sarah de Lagarde, 44, from London, was traveling home from work on the night of September 30, when she fell between the train and the platform while exiting the train.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain, she explained that she had fallen asleep and missed her intended stop. She rushed to exit the London Underground train at High Barnet station and ended up falling onto the tracks between the train and the platform.
As the train left the platform it left her "bloodied and mangled" and then she was hit by a second train as it arrived at the same platform shortly after the first had left.
After 15 minutes of crying for help, Sarah was found and taken to the Royal London Hospital by air ambulance, where her arm and leg were amputated.
Speaking to Good Morning Britain hosts Charlotte Hawkins and Rob Rinder, Sarah said: "That night I was told I could have died at least ten times, it was quite an accident to have happened but once you survive that, I was absolutely excited to be alive.
"The joy is there so if you think about it my family could have spent Christmas without me, the fact I am alive and that I am here is incredible. Everything has an extra sparkle to it."
The 44-year-old explained that the thought of her family kept her going as she lay on the tracks waiting to be rescued, and aided her during the road to recovery.
"I had to make them a promise when my eight-year-old was crying, speaking to me on FaceTime, I had to promise that I will be home for Christmas," Sarah revealed.
She had climbed Mount Kilimanjaro just weeks before the ordeal, as she told the Camden New Journal: "All I remember is thinking to myself as I was lying in that dirty ditch in High Barnet that I did not climb Mount Kilimanjaro to die here in the cold wet gravel. I am not dying here. No way. I need to be with my daughters."
Over £250,000 ($300,000) has since been raised for Sarah to get a highly advanced prosthetic arm that acts on brain signals, and she has since updated the fundraisers to thank them for their support.
Sarah said on the GoFundMe page: "I’m alive and so so grateful to celebrate Christmas with my family. I thank you for your support and your kind encouragements.
"Next year will be a whole new adventure, hopefully including new well-functioning artificial limbs! I wish you all a fabulous year end, stay healthy and happy."
We wish Sarah all the best in her recovery.
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