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Some jaw-dropping details have emerged about a bison goring that occurred in Yellowstone National Park<\/a> on July 17. Victim Amber Harris of Phoenix took to Facebook to recount the events that led up to the incident and the injuries she suffered as a result. The severity of the damage is shocking.<\/p>\n Harris, 47, fractured her spine in seven places and experienced a bilateral lung collapse after the bison charged her near the north end of Yellowstone Lake. She was staying at the Lake Lodge Cabins with her boyfriend and daughter at the time. <\/p>\n \u201cWe woke up our first morning and walked down to the lodge for some coffee then decided take a walk through a field to get to Yellowstone Lake,\u201d Harris wrote in a Facebook post<\/a> on Tuesday. \u201cThere were a few other people and about 20 elk roaming around so we waited for them to clear before walking through the field. About halfway to the water we noticed [two] bison. [One was] on the path we were walking and the other [was] in the opposite direction. We stopped and looked at the massive beast, about 50 yards away on the trail, hidden at first in the shadows of the tress. We watched him drop and roll in the dirt, like a dog would. He got up on his feet and started walking then running towards us.\u201d<\/p>\n When the bison made contact with Harris, it struck her in the chest and back. It missed her major organs but left her with severe bruising in addition to her debilitating injuries. <\/p>\n \u201cI was carried out of the field on a stretcher to an ambulance and then transferred to a helicopter for a life flight to Idaho,\u201d she continues. She was treated at the Eastern Idaho Regional Medical Center in Idaho Falls, approximately 100 miles as the crow flies from the Lake Lodge Cabins.<\/p>\n What Harris didn\u2019t know was that the vacation was supposed to end with a major surprise. Her boyfriend, Chris Whitehill, had a marriage proposal planned for Yellowstone\u2019s popular natural bridge. With the trip cut short, Whitehill had to recalibrate. <\/p>\n \u201cMy love got down on one knee beside my hospital bed last night and formally asked me to be his wife,\u201d Harris wrote. \u201cWithout any hesitation I said yes!\u201d<\/p>\n Whitehill also organized a GoFundMe<\/a> for Harris\u2019 medical expenses. He confirmed in a recent update that Harris\u2019 injuries did not require any surgery, but that she is wearing an immobilizing back brace to heal the fractures. <\/p>\nA Surprise at the Hospital<\/h2>\n