A woman who lost her leg in a horror mowing accident just a week after her wedding has revealed that her quick-thinking neighbours saved her life.
Megan Pascoe, 33, suffered catastrophic injuries after her foot was run over by a ride-on mower at her new home in Paxton, in NSW’s Hunter Region, on October 26.
Ms Pascoe and her wife Stephanie Pascoe, 31, had only purchased the home in the village of around 1,200 people six weeks earlier.
The newlywed had been 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 posted on her page where she calls herself ‘Peg-leg Meg’, Ms Pascoe explained how she let out a piercing scream and her neighbours came rushing to her aid.
‘My wife fortunately was in the backyard at the time, so she did hear me. She came running, she was the first one to me,’ she said.
She added: ‘My neighbour who lives across the road from me, I just remember her running towards me and as she’s running, she is taking her top off.
‘And I just remember thinking, what is she doing?’
Megan Pascoe (pictured), 33, suffered catastrophic injuries after her foot was run over by a ride-on mower at her new home in Paxton, in NSW ‘s Hunter Region, on October 26
She had only been married for a week when she suffered catastrophic injuries in a ride on mower accident. Ms Pascoe is pictured with her wife Stephanie at their wedding
Ms Pascoe said her neighbour use her shirt as a tourniquet, while other neighbours also removed their belts to help stop the blood flow.
‘That’s what saved my life,’ she said.
‘Without those tourniquets and without those people helping me, my outcome could have been extremely different.’
Ms Pascoe was airlifted to John Hunter Hospital in Newcastle where she underwent emergency surgery.
Unfortunately due to her horrific injuries she was told the following morning her lower leg would need to be amputated below the knee.
She revealed exactly how the horror accident unfolded when the ride-on mower hit the embankment.
‘I kind of fell into that embankment and unfortunately, I could feel myself falling off the mower,’ Ms Pascoe said.
‘So instinctively I put my foot down to try and stop me from falling, and my foot collided obviously with the mower.’
Ms Pascoe (pictured) said,’Without those tourniquets and without those people helping me, my outcome could have been extremely different’
Ms Pascoe said her goal is to get a prosthetic leg. She is pictured with her wife Stephanie
‘So as that happens, obviously, the mower went over my foot.’
Ms Pascoe explained their ride on mower accelerates on its own, ‘there is only a brake’.
She revealed the terrifying moment she realised the mower was still moving.
‘I was then on the ground and obviously, I looked up and could just see the mower still moving on its own, and it just kind of did this lap.’
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 has weekly visits to her orthopaedic doctors.
She said her goal is to get a prosthetic leg, and walked with one last week.
‘Hopefully I will hopefully be able to walk again,’ Ms Pascoe said.
The couple’s friend and marriage celebrant Sarah Chippindale created a GoFundMe for the couple, which has since raised almost $26,000.
