“I didn’t have my phone, obviously,” Littledike says. “It was in the field, but I had imagined a call and it was a picture of God, the picture of him reaching his hand through the water.”
The teen doesn’t remember feeling any pain while she was on the power line. Instead, she remembers feeling uncomfortable.
She never lost consciousness and was still able to communicate with the people below on the ground.
Littledike had been complaining of pain in her back: “My spine was leaking spinal fluid,” she later recalled although she wasn’t aware of the details of her injuries at the time.
It took first responders an hour to get her down as they had to shut the power off first.
After they grabbed her leg and took it out of the wire, she was flown to the University of Utah to receive medical treatment.
“I can’t remember if I said it in my mind or actually said it,” Littledike said of the time she lay in the stretcher after being rescued. “But I remember feeling like saying ‘thank you for trying to save my life but this is it for me’, and I remember like closing my eyes and just, done.”
