Childers says she then felt a "strange" pressure on her neck and shoulder. Her husband told her that the tree limb had impaled her.
The couple drove to the Lochsa Lodge near the Idaho-Montana border to call for help and was flown by helicopter to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont.
Childers says the 13-inch tree limb was removed from her neck during a six-hour surgery.
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