Lindsey Vonn finally leaves hospital after Winter Olympics horror crash and reveals how doctor ‘saved her leg’ from amputation

Lindsey Vonn has finally left hospital after her horrific leg break but the American skiing great has a very long road to recovery ahead of her.

In a lengthy post to Instagram on Monday morning, the 41-year-old revealed the devastating extent of her injuries and that doctors saved her from losing her leg after crashing at the Winter Olympics in Italy.

Vonn said she is in a wheelchair and will be for the foreseeable future. She fought back tears at times in a video from her home in Colorado where she explained how much pain she has already had to overcome.

‘It’s going to be a long road but I always fight,’ Vonn said. ‘No regrets. I wish it had ended differently but I would rather go down swinging.

‘It will take around a year for all of the bones to heal and then I will decide if I want to take out all the metal or not, and then go back into surgery and finally fix my ACL.

‘Life is life, we have to take the punches as they come.’ 

Vonn tore her ACL in a crash before the Winter Olympics, something she said was actually a good thing because if that hadn’t happened, the doctor who saved her leg from being amputated would not have been on hand.

‘If I hadn’t torn my ACL, which I would have done anyways in this crash, Doctor Tom Hackett wouldn’t have been there,’ Vonn said. ‘He wouldn’t have been able to save my leg.

‘He saved my leg from being amputated. I always talk about everything happening for a reason… I feel very lucky and grateful for him, for this six-hour surgery.’

Vonn revealed she also broke her ankle in the crash and that she needed a vital blood transfusion after one of her multiple surgeries to combat low haemoglobin.

”I was in the hospital a little longer than I hoped because I had very low haemogloin from the blood loss from all the surgeries,’ Vonn added. ‘I was reallyb struggling, the pain was a little bit out of control and I had to have a blood transfusion.

‘That helped me a lot and I turned the corner and now I am out. I am in a wheelchar right now, I am very much immobile and I will be in a wheelchair for a while because I also broke my right ankle.

‘I hope I can be on crutches in a little bit but we will see.’ 

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