May 15--As Roseann Sdoia prepared to leave Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, she was surrounded by the people who saved her life in those crucial moments after the bomb on Marathon Monday.
"I can tell you a lot about them if you have hours," the 45-year-old said.
Shores Salter is the 20-year-old Northeastern University student who carried Sdoia to the middle of the street and then put a tourniquet around her leg.
Shana Cottone is the Boston police officer who held her hand while telling her she would make it.
And Mike Meteria is the firefighter who brought her to the hospital in a prisoner transport vehicle. Outside Spaulding in Charlestown yesterday, three fire trucks waited to escort her to her North End home.
"They brought me in, and they're taking me home," she said.
Sdoia lost most of her right leg in the second bomb blast April 15. She walks on crutches now, wearing a T-shirt that says "Roseann Strong."
"I look at it as things happen for a reason," she said. "And once it's happened, you just have to move forward."
She'll be back at Spaulding in two weeks for a follow-up and her first fitting for a prosthetic leg.
But she'll have the student, police officer and the firefighter as lifelong friends.
She's one of the more than 260 injured that day, but like many of the wounded, they're getting on with life as best they can.
"I was either in the wrong place at the wrong time, or the right place at the right time," Salter said.
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