A woman who lost her leg in a horror mowing accident just a week after her wedding has revealed her quick-thinking neighbors saved her life.
Megan Pascoe, 33, suffered catastrophic injuries after her foot was run over by a riding mower at her new home in Paxton, in the Hunter Region of NSW, on October 26.
Mrs Pascoe and her wife Stephanie Pascoe, 31, had only bought the house in the village of about 1,200 people six weeks earlier.
The newlyweds were mowing the nature strip in the front yard when the ride-on mower hit an embankment, causing her to fall off and the mower to run over her foot.
In an inspiring TikTok video on her page in which she calls herself ‘Peg-leg Meg’, Ms Pascoe explained how she let out a piercing scream and her neighbors rushed to her aid.
‘Luckily my wife was in the backyard at the time, so she heard me. She came running, she was the first one to me,” she said.
She added: “My neighbor who lives across the street, I remember she ran towards me and as she was running she took off her top.
“And I remember thinking, what is she doing?”
Megan Pascoe (pictured), 33, suffered catastrophic injuries after her foot was run over by a riding mower at her new home in Paxton, in the Hunter Region of NSW, on October 26.
She had been married just a week when she suffered catastrophic injuries in a riding mower accident. Mrs Pascoe is pictured with her wife Stephanie at their wedding
Ms Pascoe said her neighbor used her shirt as a tourniquet, while other neighbors also removed their belts to help stop the flow of blood.
“That’s what saved my life,” she said.
“Without those tourniquets and without those people helping me, my outcome could have been very different.”
Mrs Pascoe was flown to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle where she underwent emergency surgery.
Unfortunately, due to her horrific injuries, she was told the next morning that her lower leg would have to be amputated below the knee.
She revealed exactly how the horror accident unfolded when the ride-on mower hit the dock.
“I fell a bit into that embankment and unfortunately I felt myself fall off the mower,” Ms Pascoe said.
“So I instinctively put my foot on the ground to avoid falling, and my foot obviously collided with the mower.”
Ms Pascoe (pictured) said: ‘Without those tourniquets and without those people helping me, my outcome could have been very different’
Ms Pascoe said her goal is to get a prosthetic leg. She is pictured with her wife Stephanie
“So when that happened, the mower obviously went over my foot.”
Mrs Pascoe explained that their riding mower accelerates on its own, ‘there’s just a brake’.
She revealed the terrifying moment she realized the mower was still moving.
‘I was then lying on the ground and of course looked up and saw that the mower was still moving on its own, and it did so this round as well.’
Fortunately, the mower hit the embankment and stopped before it could cause any more damage.
Ms Pascoe revealed she spent three weeks in hospital and is now recovering at home.
She said she attends rehab as an outpatient and visits her orthopedic doctors weekly.
She said her goal is to get a prosthetic leg, and ran with one last week.
“Hopefully I can hopefully walk again,” Mrs Pascoe said.
The couple’s friend and wedding celebrant Sarah Chippindale created a GoFundMe for the couple, which has since raised nearly $26,000.