Doctors have told Yazmin Oukhellou that she may never fully regain use of her right arm which was injured during a horror crash which killed her boyfriend Jake McLean.
Yazmin, 28, survived the early hours crash when their Mercedes car plunged off a cliff in Turkey in the early hours Sunday July 3.
But her life will be dramatically different since that night as she faces a life-long injury from which she may never fully recover.
Since returning to the UK she appeared with her right arm in a padded sling and has told she has suffered 'awful scaring'.
Tragically her Jake, 33, died at the scene of the crash.
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Speaking of her potentially life-altering injury, she told The Sun : “I could have been like Jake and not survived so I’m just very grateful and lucky that if that’s the worst case scenario, I will deal with it as best I can.
“The scarring that I have is awful so I will always have that as a reminder. But at least I’m still alive.”
She told how she nodded off on the drive up to a friends Villa after enjoying a 'perfect' dinner with pals but woke as their car veered off a cliff.
After being spun like inside a washing machine and fuelled by adrenaline she 'snapped' her own arm to escape the hillside wreckage as her boyfriend lay unresponsive.
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She climbed up to the road and incredibly managed to hold her arm together with her left hand before a passer-by gave her his shirt to stem the bleeding.
And despite her own injuries, her thoughts were immediately on Jake who was still unconscious so she climbed down to check for a pulse as the emergency services arrived.
She also shared how doctors told her that by being asleep it relaxes the body and she 'may not have survived' otherwise.
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Yazmin who has returned to the UK, is taking a break from social media and focusing on her recovery and grief.
She continued: “I’m staying away from social settings, I’ve stopped logging into social media, and I’ve changed my mobile number.
“For now, I just need to focus on getting well again and dealing with what has happened."