CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) – A mother who survived a fall off a steep climbing trail Tuesday and she says she is “lucky to be alive.”
Sarah Eggeling, 26, was climbing up a trail at King and Queen’s Bluff in Clarksville when she slipped on wet terrain and fell 50 feet.
“Everything is wet. I took a step. Rocks gave way. I tried to hold on,” Eggeling said she fell and “knew she was dead.”
“I thought about my son, I saw his face. I saw the rocks and I saw his face and I said I’m dead. The next thing I remember I am waking up in the grass,” said Eggeling.
She broke both elbows, has a gash on her forehead that took 20 stitches to close, shattered her right knee cap that needed to be surgically repaired, has multiple facial fractures and a concussion.
Eggeling, a surgical technician, said she’ll recover with a renewed appreciation for patients. “Maybe I’ll be able to sympathize better with patients. I know what they go through.”
She was supposed to start a new job as a scrub tech at Gateway Medical Center in Clarksville Monday. Though she still has a job, she doesn’t have the insurance yet.
A GoFundMe account has been set up in her behalf.