Stephanie Shaffer is a 23-year-old American woman from Rutland, Vermont.

Her hobbies were dancing, football, and working out. She had a rough life. Her family was tragically kil.l.ed in a car accident in the Caribbean in 2018.

They were aboard a tourist boat with eight other individuals when it blew up.

We just stayed for five minutes. I don’t remember seeing or hearing anything, but the boat exploded right under my seat.

Since there was no ambulance nearby, the child was put in a pickup truck and driven forty minutes to the hospital.

According to the doctors, both legs would have to be amputated.

Stephanie was taken to a Florida medical facility following the treatment and placed in a medically induced coma for a month; she had fractured a total of 16 bones, including her back, arms, wrists, and ribs, and doctors thought she had a 50% chance of survival.

When the girl awakened, she had no memory of what had happened to her.

“My back was broken, and I couldn’t walk.”

“There were these strange phantom aches that made me think my legs were still attached.”

“It took a long time to understand that I don’t have legs anymore.

“I was in a foul mood at the time.”

But the girl is now much more positive about her situation, and there are even Facebook and Instagram groups that follow her recovery and progress.

Stephanie herself remarks that individuals with amputated limbs have provided her with vital social support and she has contributed significantly to her recovery.