RUSSELLVILLE, Ala. (WHNT) — A 19-year-old woman is speaking out just two days after being struck by lightning while on her phone.
Scrolling on Instagram turned into the unexpected for Lisa Henderson on Sunday night, as storms passed through Russellville.
“I heard the lightning strike, and then I heard a loud pop, and all I heard was ringing in my ear,” Henderson said.
Henderson says she was holding her phone, which was plugged into a charger on an extension cord, when the lightning struck.
“I felt like stinging and stuff from my fingers to here, feels like I stuck a fork in a light socket, after that I couldn’t comprehend things, and I started crying for 5 minutes,” Henderson said.
Henderson tells me she threw her phone across the room the moment she felt the shock waves.
“Luckily, I thought to throw my phone,” Henderson said. “If I would’ve kept it, I could’ve been electrocuted even more than I was.”
Henderson tells News 19 that she then remembers small glimpses of the ambulance ride.
“I tried telling them my name, I had trouble with that, I tried telling them my age, I almost said 18, but I’m 19, so it took me a minute to process my age,” Henderson said.
When she got to the hospital, Henderson told News 19 that doctors told her she was lucky the shock did not get close to her heart.
According to the National Lightning Safety Council, the odds of being struck by lightning in a year are 1 out of 1,600,000, and Henderson says she cannot believe it happened to her.
“It’s an uncommon thing to get electrocuted by something like that,” Henderson said.
Henderson was sent home from the hospital on Monday. She tells News 19 that she is a little sore around her right wrist, right arm and her chest area, but she says she is grateful to be alive.
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