Shirley Drake's life flashed before her eyes when she saw a haybale coming straight for her on her Mepunga farm earlier this month.
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The 62-year-old was collecting some lucerne for her horses, something she does every single day.
Ms Drake said she was collecting feed from a haybale when another one from the stack fell on top of her.
"I turned to get the hay and as I turned back I saw the haybale coming towards me," she said.
"I thought 'I'm gone'."
Ms Drake was knocked to the ground by the haybale, which pinned her left arm.
She lost consciousness and woke up to her dog Maggie, a border collie, trying to get her attention.
"I couldn't move my hand and it was dark," Ms Drake said.
In a strange twist of fate, Ms Drake had her mobile phone in her right pocket.
"I usually carry it in my left pocket but that night I had it in my right pocket, I still don't know why," she said.
"I wouldn't have been able to reach my phone if it was in my left pocket."
Ms Drake said she attempted to call Triple-0, but couldn't see the numbers.
Instead, she hit the button to call the last number she had dialled.
"I just pushed the last number that I had called and that was my neighbour down the road," Ms Drake said.
With her neighbour on the way, Ms Drake again attempted to call Triple-0 and this time got through to emergency service personnel.
Ms Drake was airlifted to the Royal Melbourne Hospital with a fractured vertebrae and broken ribs.
She is now recovering at her sister Janet Drake's Warrnambool home.
Ms Drake knows her sister is incredibly lucky.
"If they had moved her she wouldn't be able to walk," she said.
In addition to that, Ms Drake said no one would have found her until late the next day if she had been unable to call for help.
Ms Drake has owned the Mepunga farm for 25 years and is a well-known harness racing driver.
At the moment she is only able to walk short distances and will find out in a month whether she has to undergo surgery.
But she remains steadfast in her plans to return to the farm as soon as she can.
"I had a friend say to me 'you won't be able to go back to the farm now' and I said 'that's not in the equation'."
Ms Drake said she also hoped to one day return to the racetrack, but her main priority was to return to the farm to her beloved dogs and horses.
She said she was extremely grateful to everyone who had assisted her after her accident, including neighbours, paramedics, nurses and doctors.
"Saying thanks doesn't seem enough," Ms Drake said.
"I'll be forever grateful."
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