Kristin Hopkins was so severely injured her feet had to be amputated, her family said. 
 
 This undated photo provided by Kristin Hopkins' family via St. Anthony Hospital shows Hopkins, 43, of Highlands Ranch, Colo. (Photo: AP) 
 
 DENVER — A missing Denver-area woman found alive in a wrecked car Sunday after almost a week with no food or water had to have her feet amputated, her family said in a statement Monday. 
 
 Kristin Hopkins, a 43-year-old single mother of four from Highlands Ranch, Colo., was in critical but stable condition Monday night at St. Anthony Hospital in Lakewood, Colo. 
 
 Hopkins was reported missing April 29 and found inside her wrecked Chevrolet Malibu Sunday afternoon in Park County, Colo., at the bottom of an embankment off a highway, according to authorities. Her car, turned upside down, was spotted by a passerby who had stopped to view scenery and noticed a glint of metal and what looked like a body, authorities said. 
 
 When emergency responders arrived, they found Hopkins alive inside her severely damaged car. The vehicle rested upside down after flying 120 feet off the highway and rolling an additional 200 feet into an aspen grove. 
 
 "The crash alone would have taken its toll on her," Colorado State Trooper Dean Enright said. "It's surprising that she survived the crash at all, and then to be down there for that amount of days without food or water," Enright trailed off. 
 
 Earlier Monday, the family released a statement at the hospital thanking emergency responders who rushed Hopkins to the hospital and to the man who found her and notified authorities. 
 
 "We sincerely appreciate all the thoughts, prayers and kind gestures from the community during such a trying time for our family," the statement read. "While we're hopeful of her prognosis, Kristin was seriously injured and with multiple internal and external injuries. Later this afternoon Kristin will be undergoing surgery here to amputate both of her feet. Doctors were not able to save her feet due to the severity of those injuries. Kristin is in critical but stable condition at this time and has a very long road ahead." 
 
 Park County Sheriff Fred Wegener said he believes that the crash happened several days ago, and that Hopkins has been without food or water since. 
 
 In the statement, family members mentioned reports that Hopkins wrote pleas for help on an umbrella she pushed out the car window. "We cannot comment on that right now because we have not seen the umbrella," the statement said. 
 
 Family members also asked that the public respect their privacy. 
 
 Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1q95gAX ||||| A badly injured Colorado woman scrawled SOS messages on an umbrella that she poked out of her wrecked car as she waited for days, desperately trying to gain the attention of anyone driving by on the rural scenic highway above. 
 
 It was some five days later when a motorist spotted the mangled car belonging to Kristin Hopkins, 43, down an embankment near Red Hill Pass, about 80 miles west of Denver along the winding, rural U.S. Highway 285. 
 
 The mother of four will have both feet amputated as a result of her injuries, the woman’s family said Monday. 
 
 That Hopkins is alive at all is considered a miracle by her rescuers, who thought the woman was dead when they arrived around 2 p.m. Sunday. 
 
 KDVR Kristin Hopkins, 43, of Highlands Ranch, was reported missing on April 29 after her car vanished in Park County. 
 
 “It’s really something off that ‘Shouldn’t Be Alive’ show,” firefighter Jim Cravener said. “She really had a strong will to survive.” 
 
 Hopkins managed to write “six days, no food, no water; please help me; need a doctor,” on the umbrella as she tried to get anyone’s attention after her car plummeted 80 feet off the highway into an aspen grove on April 29. 
 
 The Highlands Ranch woman was reported missing by worried family members last Tuesday after she seemingly disappeared without a trace. 
 
 KDVR Hopkins appears to have spun off the road and rolled several times before crashing upside down. Other drivers spotted what they thought was a body in the car and reported it to authorities. 
 
 Hopkins is expected to survive. 
 
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– A Colorado woman who survived for days in an overturned car was rescued Sunday, but had to have her feet amputated yesterday, USA Today reports. Kristin Hopkins, 43, a single mother of four, was driving at night when she crashed about 140 feet from a scenic highway. Her Chevrolet Malibu likely went airborne, hit several trees, and rolled down a steep embankment before stopping in a grove of aspen trees, a patrol officer told Reuters. Stuck in the car, she reportedly wrote notes on a red and white umbrella and tried using it to flag down passersby. Her notes were hard to read, but seemed to say "Please help doors won't open," "Please help, bleeding, need a doctor," and "Six days, no food, no water, please help," said firefighter Jim Cravener. A man who stopped to shoot pictures spotted the car, walked down to it, and reported finding a body inside. Firefighters came and were about to smash a window when Hopkins put a hand against the glass. "It’s really something off that Shouldn’t Be Alive show," Cravener told the Daily News. "She really had a strong will to survive." Hopkins is in critical but stable condition, and doctors expect her to live.