A Citronelle woman is facing a long road to recovery after she lost most of one leg and suffered severe damage to the other when she was struck by a propeller during a freak boating accident earlier this month.

Nikki Goodman suffered the injuries May 15, according to her husband, Tommy Goodman Jr., when the couple were traveling from a boat launch in Chickasaw to Gravine Island in Baldwin County.

Tommy Goodman told WALA in Mobile the hydraulic cable tied to the boat’s steering broke, causing the boat to begin spinning violently, throwing both Goodmans into the water.

Nikki Goodman was struck by the boat propeller, which cut off her left leg above the knee and caused a deep cut into her right leg. Tommy Goodman managed to pull himself back onto the boat and heard his wife calling for help.

Tommy pulled Nikki back on the boat and used bungee cords and other items as makeshift tourniquets to stop the bleeding. Fortunately, another boat was passing by and stopped to assist in caring for Nikki and calling 911.

“It was a man and woman and I would love to find them and thank them because they helped save my life,” Nikki Goodman told the TV station. “They were already on the phone with 911. He immediately got on the boat with my husband and started helping him. I don’t want to shake his hand. I want to hug his neck and I just want to say thank you.”

The Goodmans were married in February 2016. Tommy Goodman is a construction foreman. He wrote on GoFundMe that funds raised will be used for medical expenses and the cost of fitting Nikki with a prosthetic leg.

“I’m gonna be missing a lot of work to take care of her and running her back and forth to therapy and doctors appointments,” he wrote. “We have a long recovery ahead of her.”

As of Tuesday morning, $3,850 had been raised, with a goal of $15,000.