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75-year-old woman crawls through rural Colorado for 14 hours to get help for broken leg
MCCOY, COLORADO, JUL 11 – Kirby used her medical knowledge and faith to survive, crawling 14 hours to safety after breaking her femur and hip, then returning home for her grandson's wedding, doctors said.
- Charlene Kirby, a 75-year-old Colorado woman, broke her femur in a crash in early June near her rural McCoy home and spent nearly 14 hours crawling for help.
- The accident happened when her trailer jackknifed and the side-by-side vehicle she was using almost ran over her after she fell backwards while trying to escape it.
- Kirby used her medical knowledge as a former first responder and ER nurse to cautiously crawl inch by inch from about 7 p.m. to 9 a.m., praying for protection and hoping her son would arrive early.
- After her son discovered her near the property and called for medical help, Kirby underwent surgery on her hip and femur on June 9, followed by a three-week rehabilitation period before returning to her residence on July 3, coinciding with her grandson's wedding celebrations.
- Kirby credited her survival to God’s presence throughout the ordeal and said her story reflects the resilience and community culture in McCoy, where she was born and raised.
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Retired nurse and paramedic Charlene Kirby injured her femur in a fall while cleaning up her remote Colorado property on June 7ABC 7 Chicago/Youtube Charlene KirbyNEED TO KNOWCharlene Kirby crawled back to her home with a broken femur after falling on her remote Colorado property on June 7The 75-year-old retired nurse crawled for 14 hours with the injury before her son found her on the morning of June 8“I had dirt in my nose, in my ears, on my t…
A story of resilience and faith, that of Charlene Kirby. The woman is now 75 years old and is retired, after a life spent in aisle as a nurse at the First Aid of McCoy, in Colorado. On the night of June 7, however, she risked to die and then became the protagonist of an incredible story. Kirby had decided to clean her vast property from weeds and fallen branches for the wedding of a grandson. She so loaded her side-by-side, a kind of quad, with …
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