 It was back on March 25th, I was getting ready to go to work and it was about 11.30 am in the morning and there is a JCB that was coming from the opposite direction. So the JCB driver apparently was talking on the phone. Instead of taking a turn, he just came straight towards us and we did not have any place because we were right next to the wall. Since we did not have any place, my husband had to bend the bike and when my husband bent the bike, the blade of the bulldozer cut my leg off and I was thrown on the road. The impact was so hard that it threw my husband 30 feet away and I was thrown right next to a pole that was there on the way. Neelam is a 29 year old IT professional who presented to us in March this year following a road traffic accident. She sustained an open injury to her right knee which is a great 3C open fracture which basically involves a fracture of the knee with extensive soft tissue injury combined with injury to the blood vessels supplying to the knee. And then when I turned and looked, I can see my husband coming from like little far away distance he was running and coming towards me and all he did was he just asked me, are you okay? And then I looked at him when I realized, when I was trying to see from where the blood is coming, I can see my leg is just cut and the blood is oozing out from my veins and then I just had no words, what am I supposed to be doing? My veins, my arteries, my bone, everything was like cut. Only little bit piece of my skin was still attached at the back and then I can see people taking out my videos, my pictures but there is no one ready to come help me and I just, I was so much in pain and agony that I was fading away I was getting unconscious but I kept telling to myself I'm not going to be unconscious until I go to hospital because I gave courage to myself saying that I need to deal with this and I need to come out of this. The moment I came here, they took me to emergency ward Manipa Hospital Whitefield, they took me to emergency ward and I can see two or three doctors around me I can't remember very well because I was half unconscious and I was just conscious half way through. She was immediately seen in the emergency department and a combined approach, a multidisciplinary approach was applied plastic surgical team along with orthopedics and vascular surgical team were involved in the initial care of this patient She was immediately taken to operation theatre within three to four hours of arrival and vascular repair was done, followed by plastic surgical input and external fixator application was done from the orthopedic department They did an x-ray for me, they did MRI scan and then the radiology and they did many scans and then finally they told me that we are taking you to operation theatre, you will be given general anesthesia I asked will I be able to walk again and then the doctor promised me yes you will I promise you that you will, that's when I relaxed myself that fine no matter what pain I had to go through I know that I will get my leg back Later on she recovered very well she had multiple procedures during the hospital stay of about ten days during which the external fixator was readjusted wound closure was performed by the plastic team and then later on a definitive fixation was done after four weeks from the time of initial injury She has developed, she gradually improved with the help of physiotherapy exercises and she is now back to her regular activities now following four to six months following the injury and this clearly depicts a prompt and multidisciplinary approach helps in limb salvage surgery and this is a classic example of how a team approach can give good results even in worst case scenarios but once I woke up from ICU I can see my leg was like so much swollen and I can see all the rods on my leg they have given me external fixators I thank Manipal Hospital Whitefield majorly that they are doing such a wonderful job they are saving people's life which is after this accident to me is such a big thing it's only because of this hospital that I've got my leg back I'm able to stand on my own feet today it's only because of the hospital primarily and then the doctors doctors here have done an amazing job I would personally like to thank Dr. Anoop Dr. Ramni and Dr. VG Rajan majorly for giving me my leg back for giving me my life back literally to tell