A 1998 graduate of Issaquah High School, Adrianne Haslet-Davis, 32, remains hospitalized while she recovers from serious injuries resulting from the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Haslet-Davis, who now lives in Boston, was standing with her husband, Air Force Capt. Adam Davis near where the second bomb went off, according to a phone interview with Seattle’s KOMO TV.
Haslet-Davis, whose parents still live in Issaquah, is a professional dancer.
“We heard the first bomb go off and we saw the smoke. I remember the impact of the air and the bomb hitting my chest and pulling me back,” she told the news organization.
The couple were knocked off their feet. She said they didn’t feel heat but her left foot hurt. She said her husband held up her foot and they both started screaming “bloody murder.” She also lost the hearing in her right ear. The right side of her body was covered in shrapnel.
Davis suffered broken bones in his left foot and his legs were lacerated with shrapnel. He had just returned safely from Afghanistan.
Davis pulled off his belt using it as a tourniquet tying it around her leg to stop the bleeding. Haslet-Davis didn’t think she was going to make it. But once she saw the firefighter who lifted her into safety, she knew she would live through it.
She is determined to return to the dance floor and even run in the Boston Marathon next year.