I saw that I had like
No hand
so there was
Nothing left on my arm
It was just blood and bones and I was in the water
You have to be willing to believe in yourself and to believe in your story and to believe that there's more that we're going through
And that what you're going through is going to bring you
Further into who you're supposed to be and your calling and find the good in it
Hey guys, welcome back if this is your first time here
My name is Kristie Sita and I'm so glad you're here because today I have
a long-awaited video on my four year anniversary since my accident
I did a video kind of talking about my Jesus testimony and how my faith has come
Over the past four years that all kind of stemmed from the accident itself
But today I'm doing a video really focused on just the day of the accident
I've had so many questions and a lot of my following is brand new on both my accounts
So I'm here to tell you guys exactly what went down on July. Oh
That's wrong. On June 30th 2014, which was the day my life changed forever
Okay, guys, let's get right into this
So I want to start on June 25th 2014 was the day I graduated high school at age 16
So at the age of 16, I graduated one year early
I had previously gone to my counselors when I was 14 years old and said I
Really want to pursue dance and I want to get to the city as quick as possible
so let's figure out how I can get out of here here early and
Thankfully I was able to I so June 25th was the day that I did graduate
And I'm gonna insert a photo
Someone here's finishing high school and knowing that I was going to be moving to the city within the next couple weeks. And so
You can see this. Next picture was June 29th, June 29th, 2014
They're like whatever hand is showing that's my left hand
Not there anymore and then this photo is from June 30th 2014 at 9:50 a.m
I had just gone to the gym to kill a workout before I was going the lake with my friends
And so I took this picture of my left bicep and my left arm and my left hand in the gym bathroom
Which is really crazy this does a big reality check for me
But literally on my phone when I swipe from that picture, the next picture is me in the helicopter on my way to Children's Hospital
with one less limb
So, this is June 30 2014
Swipe
June 30 2014 at 3:40 go back
9:50 a.m
3:40 p.m. That is crazy
So now I'm gonna go back and I'm going to tell you what happened between 9:40 a.m. And 3:50 p.m
So I was out at Ruby Lake on the Sunshine Coast
Which is our favorite summer like ever and I remember it was the most beautiful day
It was blue sky was literally one of the best days I've ever had
I had
previously texted my mom saying I'm having the best day ever and then I'm so thankful that she let me come out to see my
friends
And I also sent her a video of me tubing which must have been I don't know exactly what time I texted her
But it would have only been a couple hours or a couple minutes before
Everything went down
So what happened is we were done tubing for the little bit of time and so we pulled up into
Like the visiting section of the lake which was where lots people lie on the sand and there's a little bit of a swimming area
So we had pulled up into there and some of our friends that were on the boat
We're gonna go grab some of their things but I stayed on the boat
with two of my friends
So just after a couple of minutes another group of my friends had showed up in a separate boat
and we had decided that we were gonna go anchor up and meet in the middle of the lake and hang out there and
So all of our friends were taking a long time. Well, they're going to grab their stuff and me being my impatient self
I was like, let's just go and so we ended up leaving but the tube was too big to fit
inside the boat so that it could be like tucked down and so it's actually just resting on like the back of the boat and
so we took off and we're going and the other boat had already left before us and they were meeting us in the middle of
The lake and so we left
And we are going. this whole time is like a teeny bit blurry for me
So I don't have exact details
but I'm gonna give you guys as
Much as I remember and all of a sudden the tube felt out of the back of the boat
but nobody else realized but myself and my initial reaction was like
Oh, no
The tube and I reached back for the rope
to save the tube and then my hand had gotten tangled and so my hand just like
Completely ripped off
I
had no idea what had happened and I rose up out of the water and I was kind of like
Oh my shoulder feels a little bit weird
so I then I rose my left hand to be like hey guys come get me and I saw that I had like
No hand
so there was
Nothing left on my arm. It was just blood and bones and I was in the water and I was like I
Honestly, and everyone always asked me if I felt pain there and I didn't feel anything. I was in so much shock
I had no idea what was going on
I
just literally there's a fight-or-flight and I went in to fight and survival mode and I was losing all of my blood but I was
like
I was treading water so hard just to stay above
I'm like, I'm not going under like I can't go down right now
and so then the boat
My friends on the boat had realized that I had fallen out and see how they picked me up and then they put me on
the back of the boat and they wrapped my hand up super super tight and
Made sure that I wasn't losing too much blood and I remember like we were going super fast
Towards the boat launch and in my head, I was just like this
realization that it was like
Literally five seconds ago. My life was completely different. I'm like this can't be real like this is just a nightmare
This is not real. It's not real. This is not real
It's not real and I was just like it's that super surreal state that it's literally like five seconds ago
I had two hands and I was a normal person and five seconds. Later
I have one hand and my life has completely changed and that's just like a very surreal
Very very very very surreal moment. And so I remember going through this process of like no, this is a nightmare
This is the nightmare. This is the night where this isn't real and
It was real right. Um, so I remember going so fast into the boat launch
and everyone there was like a bunch of boats that came out and they're like
Hey slow down the guys were just like we have a huge emergency and
That's when we started to gather a bunch of medical people from around the lake which helped me
Stay because we're also in the middle of nomer so there was no ambulance to get there within
Very quickly, so I had people that were like asking me questions and I knew everything I was fully alerted. I was not
Sleepy. I was kind of just in like this really surreal state when I just was like
God like you have to take it from here like I I can't do this and I can't go right now
I was like
Please don't take me just just please don't take me and that's all I could really think
throughout my mind and my favorite show growing up, which was always really crazy was Soul Surfer with Bethany Hamilton and
Bethany Hamilton like it was like I had probably seen the movie 40 times
It was my favorite cuz not only her belief in her faith
but also the storyline and her
overcoming adversity and just going so far into the world after not letting anything hold her back
That was something that drew me in so quickly and I loved it
and
so I was actually remembering every step that she took and every breath that she took and the prayer that she had and everything that
her family was thinking and I was like I have to say like I have to
Have to fight and she taught me how to fight from watching that movie so much which was so crazy
so crazy, but
Pretty much that super kept me alert
and I had a bunch of people that actually went out to go find the tube to see if they could find my hand and
They found the tube and they rolled up the rope and my hand was still like holding on to the rope
they put the hand in a cooler and the cooler came with me actually to the hospital because they were hoping to maybe reattach my
hand
So fast forward like half hour, I got into the ambulance and the ambulance. They took me to the nearest helicopter pad
and then at that point
I remember I was like in the ambulance and they were like
Turn away because they were undoing like the wrap up that the boys did
They're like turn away like turn away
You're not going to want to see this and you're not going to remember me
blah blah and I like remember I was like no and I watched them do it and I watched them take off the
Covering on my hand and I watched them
do nothing and I also remember every one of them I
remember you
so I remembered everything from there and then I got transferred into the helicopter and in the helicopter, I
Think I was like in and out sighs not so much medication, but there was one point when I was like hey
Can you go into my purse and I was like, it's my purse here grab my phone and take a picture of me
So that's the picture that you guys previously saw that I'll show up again here
but I'm in the helicopter like low-key smiling on my way to Children's Hospital like not knowing what
Was going to happen at all or really what was going on and also at that point I was telling her and in the helicopter
I was like
Oh
I want to be a professional dancer and I'm like and these are all my hopes and my dreams and I love fitness and like
my whole world is just dance and I was like
I just was going off about everything that I wanted to pursue and everything that I loved
They're like, okay, who is this girl?
Like she's literally dying and all she's talking about is dance and fitness and so it was a really like surreal ride
and then I got off the helicopter and I remember I was like getting strolled into the
Hospital and I've had like blankets on me and it was really hot out
So I like took off my blankets and I was like I'm tanning
hmm
So yeah after getting off the helicopter, I got rolled into the emergency room
All of the surgery rooms were full and all of the surgeons were taken so they actually had to bring in
Like one of their other surgeons, which was dr. Irving Lincoln and she is my lifesaver
She did the best possible operation on me ever
and
So going into that they did have my hand and they kind of explained to me after
because I went into surgery and I remember I was like I
Like I remember I was lying there and I looked at every single surgeon like directly in the eye
And I had to see every single one and there's interns in there
There was a bunch of people
And I just said that God has a plan for me and that was my last words before they put like the mask
over and I
So what happened in the surgery room is they actually had to pull some of my like because all of my four muscles came off?
As well like my hand
Ripped off with all of my muscles that was in this arm so it so you can see it's really thin here
Um, so they pulled down a little bit of my muscle into everywhere and they put also must the end
So it's fully weight-bearing and that's how you guys see that I can do my fitness and I can put on my body weight on
It it's because it's fully waiver and then you can see kind of that. They sewed it back up here
Kind of goes all the way around
But it's a very like clean stump my surgeon I know clean stuff has a really good phrase
But my surgeon did really really well. I have no extra skin on it. It's just
Sewn together so I can live
But yeah guys that pretty much brings me to the end of what happened on June 30 2014
I want to do a whole nother video for you guys on my recovery because
That was a whole nother process and just so many things are involved in that
So what I really hope you guys get from today if you're another amputee or if you're just someone watching my video
Value your life and value your limbs and value your health because like I just showed you like
There is so much that can happen between 9:50 a.m. And 3:50 p.m
Like I woke up on that day and I would have never known what my life
would possibly have been like by the end of the day and like life changes so quickly and it's so cliche to say but
Anything can happen at any second and like no day is guaranteed. No moment is guaranteed
nothing in your life is guaranteed like everything is temporary or
risk able and so I really just hope that if you guys can get anything from this that you just
Really take advantage of your life and really live every single day
It's just like just be appreciative every day and be present in every day because you really don't know
What the next day's gonna hold and I mean I if you want to see more about my journey personally
You can go to my testimony video
There's lots of goods in there of how mentally I got through that time and how I got through my recovery
Like going through the accident was the biggest challenge I've ever
Encountered but it's also been the biggest blessing in my life and I would not change a single day. I would not change anything
I am Who I am for a reason and gods brought so much reason into Who I am and what happened to me and really
Making me a light for the world through what's happened to me and that I can tell you guys and that I can inspire people
out there to just keep on living and lives the fullest and be present and love your family and love your friends and just really
know that nothing is
Nothing here to stay and I really just hope that you guys can be inspired and know that I am doing like so, okay
I love my life more than ever and I am so grateful
For everything that's happened to me because it's made me the person I am today and I wouldn't have myself any other way
So I really hope you guys share this video if it did inspire you and don't forget to subscribe to my channel
I want to do more
sit-down chats with you guys cause right now I've only really done fitness and my testimony video but I think talking to you is so
important and I think that's a huge reason why I'm still here is to
Inspire and tell my stories and speak to you guys and be present and be real
So please do subscribe it would mean the world to me and I can't wait to meet you guys in the next video
But if you guys want comment your your story down below I want to hear
What you've been through and like what your life is and who you are and if you're an FPT
I would love to connect with you and reach out to me because I love talking to you guys
But you guys can follow me on Instagram. I've got my Christy Sita which is my personal page and my Sita fit is my fitness
So yeah, I'll see you guys in the next video and I will see you soon. Thanks for watching