Korisa Miller was fishing off the docks near Beacon Cove Marina in Harrison Township when she slipped and fell into the 36-degree water below, the Macomb County Sheriff’s Office said in aFacebook post.
“My knee bashed the dock and I hit the ice,” she wrote. “It took only a few seconds for the ice to give in because as all of you have been saying I am a thick woman. The spot where I fell in the water was 12 feet deep and I had to hang on to stay alive.”
She said it took just two minutes for her to lose all feeling in her legs, and that she soon started drifting out of consciousness after spending about 15 minutes in the water.
Macomb County Sheriff’s Office
The two fishermen can be seen holding her arms and keeping her afloat as she cries, “Help me, I’m numb. I’m completely numb. I’m stuck.”
“The moment you see on camera was after I started to fall asleep, and then I [saw] Officer Davis and knew I was going to be okay,” Miller wrote.
Miller is wearing just a tank top and leggings in the video, but clarified that she initially had on a hoodie and a winter coat to keep warm.
“When they tried pulling me up, my hoodie and coat was choking me so they had to rip it off of me. I did not go fishing in a tank top,” she wrote.
“After going through such a traumatic experience and I almost died, this is what people have to say,” she told the outlet. “I just think these people have no conscience anymore. People have no idea that I used to be 400 pounds and now I am the way I am.”
“I have a lot of people that have my back but I also wanted to go and speak for myself too,” she told theFree Press. “Shame on people like that.”
The sheriff’s office wrote that Miller is “doing better today,” but warned that anyone going fishing should be sure to fish with a partner and wear proper, non-slip footwear.
“She is forever grateful to her friend and the fisherman that saved her life,” they wrote. “We thank them as well.”
source: people.com
