A professional ballroom dancer who lost her left foot in the Boston bombing has vowed that she will dance again - and run the marathon next year.
Adrianne Haslet is just one of the many injured in the April 15 atrocity who have pledged that it will not define their lives.
"I absolutely want to dance again and I also want to run the marathon next year," said the 32-year-old.
"I will crawl across the finish line, literally crawl, if it means I finish it."
She may find herself back in the limelight even sooner as she is set to appear on the US TV programme Dancing With The Stars.
Adrianne Haslet is being treated at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital The details of her appearance are yet to be revealed but Adrianne told the Boston Herald that she would be honoured to be a guest, and especially pleased by the prospect of meeting show pro Derek Hough.
"OHMUGOD!!!!!!!!!", she messaged a friend. "I loooove Derek!!!!!!!!!"
The Boston woman, an Arthur Murray Dance Studio employee, thought she was going to die when she looked down and saw how her body had been mutilated.
She has had one surgery to amputate her left foot, and another in which doctors amputated more of the same leg below her knee.
In the hours before terror struck Boylston Street, Ms Haslet was basking in the joy of having her husband home again.
Two weeks earlier, the Air Force captain had returned from a four-month deployment in Afghanistan.
On Patriots' Day morning, they were walking near the marathon's finish line when the second explosion left her tangled in a heap on the ground and she saw something was wrong with her foot.
"I remember thinking, 'That's so gross,' and being terrified that this is the moment I was going to die," she said.
She crawled toward a restaurant door, before someone dragged her towards a staircase.
Her husband, although also injured, took off his belt to make a tourniquet for her.
Then others arrived to help and soon she was in a triage area where someone wrote a number on her forehead.
"I just prayed that I had a number that was high enough to get help," she said.
"I just kept screaming out, 'I'm a ballroom dancer! I'm a ballroom dancer! Just save my foot."
The next day, she woke up at Boston Medical Centre and saw her mother.
"I told my mom 'My foot feels like it's asleep.' And she said, 'Adrianne, you don't have a foot anymore.'"
She is hoping to get a prosthetic device in the next two months to begin her long journey back to the dance floor and marathon course.
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