Doctors say a 15-year-old Omaha girl is lucky to be alive and to not be paralyzed after her SUV flipped multiple times. 6 News met with Cassy Jacobsen just before she was discharged from the hospital Tuesday.

"Now that I've almost died I realize how much life has meaning," said Jacobsen. She was coming home from a speech tournament when she says she started to doze off. "I remember flipping the car once even though the car flipped four times."

"After that I remember being on somebody's porch." Cassy Jacobsen had managed to walk to the nearest home. "That's insane with a broken back."

Jacobsen explains that her back was broken in multiple places, her wrist was broken in two places and she has another break in her lower neck. Despite serious injury officers told her she walked half a mile barely holding on to consciousness.

"I don't remember walking that far at all." She rang the doorbell at the stranger’s home until she could get someone's attention. "After they let me in I remember how bloody my legs were and how scary that was."

For 18 days she has been recovering at Nebraska Medicine. "I have to call my nurse to do almost anything." On Tuesday she got the great news that now she can move on to Madonna in Lincoln for rehabilitation therapy. "It's nice to get out of here."

The teen tells us she has a new outlook on things. "It's almost like I cherish life a lot more."

Cassy's family has set up a GoFundMe page to help pay for her medical bills. If you’d like to help, visit Cassy's GoFundMe page