 Bågenholm returned to work in October 1999 . On 7 October 1999 – 140 days after the accident — she returned to the hospital in Tromsø and met the doctors and nurses that helped save her life . Bågenholm commented : " When you are a patient , you 're not thinking you are going to die . You think , I 'm going to make it . But as a medical person , I think it 's amazing that I 'm alive . " As of October 2009 , Bågenholm has made an almost full recovery , although minor symptoms in hands and feet related to nerve injury remain . In late 2009 , she was working as a radiologist at the hospital where her life was saved . 
