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But it became wrapped in her leg as she continued to plummet toward the ground at 125 mph while scrambling to free herself.
She first hit the ground with her left leg, then bounced up and landed on her back, SWNS reported.
“I hit with my left leg first and then I bounced off of my butt and faceplanted, and that’s how I broke my back. There was just extreme burning through my lower back and down my legs,” Hatmaker told SWNS.
The parachute became wrapped in Jordan Hatmaker’s leg as she continued to fall. Jordan Hatmaker/SWNS
“First I tried to push myself off the ground, and when I couldn’t move anything, my first thought was I was paralyzed and I was yelling that out,” she said.
Between 2015 and 2020, Hatmaker completed five tandem jumps — skydives in which a student is attached to an instructor via a harness — and then decided to obtain a license to jump solo.
On Nov. 14, she embarked on her fateful 16th jump — the second of two she had planned for the day.
“When my back broke, some of the pieces of my vertebrae went into my spinal canal,” said Hatmaker, who underwent spinal fusion surgery and operations on her broken leg.
“They said, ‘We don’t know what kind of mobility she’s going to have,’ but they didn’t think I was going to be paralyzed because I could wiggle my toes,” she told the outlet.my thought I had most often,” Hatmaker said.
“I had a lot of hope in that I would walk again, even though I couldn’t lift my legs or move them back and forth. I had a lot of hope that I would do everything I wanted to do again,” she added.
Hatmaker had planned a trip to the Everest Base Camp three days after her jump — and still intends to make the trek to the famed mountain site in Nepal in Nov
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