she still has a long recovery ahead. randi kaye spent the day with erica yesterday and in her report last night she described what happened to erica in those critical minutes right after the bombs went off and a good samaritan appeared at her side. listen. reporter: erica was also screaming. for help. the lower part of her left leg had been blown off, and her right leg was broken. and i had a conversation in my head with god, and i told him i wasn t ready to go. and it was almost instantaneously she had heard my thoughts. this woman kind of crawled over to me. and she grabbed my hand, and she had heard me screaming for help. and she said, my name is joan from california, and i m not going to let you go. and she stayed with me the whole time. reporter: joan used her belt as a tourniquet on erika s leg. erika never got joan s last name or contact but swears the woman in the yellow jacket with brown hair saved her life. she desperately wants to find her and thank her. yeah, that
medical center yesterday the last of the bombing victims to go home. she had 11 surgeries. she still has a long recovery ahead. randi kaye spent the day with erica yesterday and in her report last night she described what happened to erica in those critical minutes right after the bombs went off and a good samaritan appeared at her side. listen. reporter: erica was also screaming. for help. the lower part of her left leg had been blown off, and her right leg was broken. and i had a conversation in my head with god, and i told him i wasn t ready to go. and it was almost instantaneously she had heard my thoughts. this woman kind of crawled over to me. and she grabbed my hand, and she had heard me screaming for help. and she said, my name is joan from california, and i m not going to let you go. and she said with me the whole time. reporter: joan used her belt as a tourniquet on erika s leg. erika never got joan s last name or contact but swears the woman in the yellow jacket with
critical minutes right after the bombs went off and a good samaritan appeared at her side. listen. reporter: erica was also screaming. for help. the lower part of her left leg had been blown off, and her right leg was broken. and i had a conversation in my head with god, and i told him i wasn t ready to go. and it was almost instantaneously she had heard my thoughts. this woman kind of crawled over to me. and she grabbed my hand, and she had heard me screaming for help. and she said, my name is joan from california, and i m not going to let you go. and she said with me the whole time. reporter: joan used her belt as a tourniquet on erika s leg. erika never got joan s last name or contact but swears the woman in the yellow jacket with brown hair saved her life. she desperately wants to find her and thank her. yeah, that s her. reporter: we showed her a picture of joan helping her from the boston globe. that s joan right there. and then she s holding my hand right there.
go home. she had 11 surgeries. she still has a long recovery ahead. randi kaye spent the day with erica yesterday and in her report last night she described what happened to erica in those critical minutes right after the bombs went off and a good samaritan appeared at her side. listen. reporter: erica was also screaming. for help. the lower part of her left leg had been blown off, and her right leg was broken. and i had a conversation in my head with god, and i told him i wasn t ready to go. and it was almost instantaneously she had heard my thoughts. this woman kind of crawled over to me. and she grabbed my hand, and she had heard me screaming for help. and she said, my name is joan from california, and i m not going to let you go. and she said with me the whole time. reporter: joan used her belt as a tourniquet on erika s leg. erika never got joan s last name or contact but swears the woman in the yellow jacket with brown hair saved her life. she desperately wants to find he
i had a conversation in my head with god and told him i wasn t ready to go, and it was almost instantaneously she heard my thoughts, this woman kind of crawled over to me and she grabbed my hand and she could hear she had heard me screaming for help, and she said my name is joan, i m from california and i m not going to let you go. and she stayed with me the whole time. reporter: joan used her belt as a tourniquet on erica s leg. she never got joan s last name or contact but swears the woman in the yellow jacket with brown hair saved her life. she desperately wants to find her and thank her. yeah, that s her. reporter: we showed her a picture of joan helping her from the boston globe. that s joan right there. she s holding my hand right there. this is my right leg. reporter: in all, erica had 11 surgeries. each time she would be wheeled down this hallway and through those doors. she soon learned the entire wing of the hospital back there had been shut down because that