Northwest Indiana woman trapped in crashed car for 6 days released from hospital after months of recovery
'I just feel like He has a purpose that I'm here, whoever that is. I don't have any other explanation for it,' Brieonna Cassell said.
In March, the 41-year-old mother of three was driving home when she fell asleep behind the wheel and her car veered into a ditch along CR 600S in Newton County, Indiana.
Missing woman survives nearly a week after Northwest Indiana crash
Cassell was pinned inside the Ford Taurus with broken legs, ribs, an ankle and wrist. A rock was preventing her door from opening. She was stuck.
But she says she never panicked. She figured out how to survive, dipping a spare pair of jeans into the ditch below to soak up water to drink until help arrived.
She survived six days waiting to be rescued before she was airlifted to Advocate Christ Medical Center in Chicago.
'I would hold onto the end of the leg and then I would fish over my shoulder while I held my door open with my head and my broken arm. I'd pull it up and I would suck the water right out of the end of the jeans,' Cassell said.
'She's very strong': Northwest Indiana woman trapped in car for 6 days, recovering from surgeries
She arrived back home Saturday morning. She is still unable to walk but improving each day. Cassell says laughter has gotten her through the toughest days.
She had 13 surgeries while recovering. She is now working on a book about her harrowing journey, and right now it stands at 13 chapters.
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