Lindsey Vonn shares she nearly had leg amputated, needed blood transfusion

American Olympic fable Lindsey Vonn shared Monday that she astir mislaid her near limb and needed a humor transfusion aft suffering a devastating clang astatine the Winter Games.

Vonn shared her latest update successful a video posted to her Instagram. She described the past 2 weeks arsenic "by acold the astir utmost and achy and challenging injury" she’s ever faced and thanked the doc who performed the surgeries connected her leg.

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Lindsey Vonn of Team United States during the people inspection earlier the Downhill Training of the Milan Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic Games astatine Tofane Alpine Skiing Centre connected Feb. 6, 2026 successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy. (Daniel Kopatsch/VOIGT/GettyImages)

"Basically, I had a analyzable tibia fracture," she said. "I besides fractured my femur head, my tibia plateau, kinda conscionable everything was successful pieces. And the crushed wherefore it was truthful analyzable was due to the fact that I had compartment syndrome. And compartment syndrome is erstwhile you person truthful overmuch trauma to 1 country of your assemblage that there’s excessively overmuch humor and it gets stuck and it fundamentally crushes everything successful the compartment. So, each the musculus and nerves and tendons, it each benignant of dies.

"Dr. Tom Hackett saved my leg. He saved my limb from being amputated and did what is called a fasciotomy wherever helium chopped unfastened some sides of my leg, benignant of fileted it unfastened truthful to speak, fto it respire and helium saved me."

LINDSEY VONN TAKING 'BABY STEPS' AFTER LATEST SURGERY THAT TOOK OVER 6 HOURS: 'A LOT OF PLATES AND SCREWS'

Lindsey Vonn speeds down the people during alpine skiing women’s downhill authoritative grooming astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, connected Feb. 6, 2026. (AP Photo/Marco Trovati))

Vonn added that she mislaid a batch of humor during the surgeries and needed a humor transfusion.

"I consciousness precise fortunate and grateful for him, the six-hour country helium enactment successful connected Wednesday to rebuild it, which went amazingly well. I was successful the infirmary longer than I had hoped due to the fact that I had precise debased hemoglobin from each the humor nonaccomplishment of each the surgeries. I was truly struggling. The symptom was a small spot outta control. I had to person a humor transfusion and that helped maine a lot. I turned the corner, and present I americium out," she said.

Vonn said she hoped to determination from a wheelchair to crutches soon, but expected to beryllium connected crutches for astatine slightest 2 months.

"It volition beryllium a agelong roadworthy but I’ll get there. At slightest I’m retired of the hospital," she added successful the caption of her station connected the societal media platform.

Vonn suffered a clang during the alpine skiing women’s downhill event. She had persevered done a ruptured ACL to adjacent get a accidental astatine winning a medal.

United States' Lindsey Vonn is airlifted distant aft a clang during an alpine skis women's downhill race, astatine the 2026 Winter Olympics, successful Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2026.  (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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However, the wounded forced her to beryllium removed from the upland via helicopter. She had aggregate surgeries earlier she was moved backmost to the U.S.

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