 After rescue , Bågenholm was transported by helicopter to the Tromsø University Hospital , where a team of more than a hundred doctors and nurses worked in shifts for nine hours to save her life . Bågenholm woke up ten days after the accident , paralyzed from the neck down and subsequently spent two months recovering in an intensive care unit . Although she has made an almost full recovery from the incident , late in 2009 she was still suffering from minor symptoms in hands and feet related to nerve injury . Bågenholm 's case has been discussed in the leading British medical journal The Lancet , and in medical textbooks . 
