GAZING out at the Pacific Ocean, Alyssa Fuller, 37, couldn’t believe her luck. “I was on the holiday of a lifetime with the man of my dreams,” the designer from Minneapolis remembers. “I had no idea within hours it would turn into a nightmare.
” It was October 2023 and Alyssa had just married Jeremy, now 38, regional sales manager. At the end of the night, Alyssa knew that the excitement wasn’t over. Soon the newlyweds would be heading off to Mexico on their honeymoon.
"We'd booked a luxury hotel with snorkelling and diving, and just couldn’t wait to unwind together,” she says Arriving at the hotel on Sunday evening it was even better than they’d hoped. “Our room had huge windows overlooking the ocean and we had its own hot tub. It was gorgeous,” she remembers.
The next morning at 11am the couple headed out to the hotel pool. “I saw that it had been raining, but that didn’t dampen my spirits. I couldn’t wait to get into the water,” she says.
“At midday, after a swim, I said to Jeremy, ‘let’s go down to the cabana on the beach.' But as Alyssa got out of the pool and took a step, disaster struck. “The floor was slippery from the rain hours before.
One second, I was upright, the next my feet slipped, and I crashed onto the floor,” she says. “I knew instantly something awful had happened to my left leg. I was in agony.
” As Alyssa lay on the ground in shock, she and Jeremy waited for the hotel doctor to arrive. "Hours crawled by, and all .