A South Dakota woman says she’s “extremely lucky” to be alive after a freak accident with a lawnmower sliced open her neck.

Kendra Jensen, 28, said she was cleaning up toys at her home July 11 in Bridgewater when her husband Andy’s lawnmower sent something ricocheting toward her.

“Andy was mowing the lawn and something flew out and sliced my neck and shoulder open,” Jensen wrote in a Facebook post. “I was not nearby, I was a good 30+ feet away on my deck.”

Jensen said she felt something strike her, but wasn’t initially aware how severe the injury was.

“I was immediately like ‘that hurt,’ and so I grabbed my neck,” Jensen told news station KSFY. “That’s when I realized I was bleeding, and it was wet. I freaked out.”

Jensen said she flagged down her husband — a Marine Corps veteran and police officer — who immediately rushed to her aid.

“Tonight I’m thankful my husband has the training he does and could act quickly to get quick clot gauze stuffed into my wound and wrapped with a pressure dressing before the ambulance arrived,” Jensen wrote on Facebook.

She was brought to the hospital, where she received stitches on her neck. “Thankfully, tt missed my carotid, trachea, vocal cords and everything important by just millimeters,” she wrote on Facebook.

Though she’s recovering from the accident, Jensen said she’s still not sure what was responsible for her injuries.

“We have not found what hit me yet. We thought he may have hit a rock and a piece of the blade flew off but the blades are intact. We just had our mower serviced but will be taking it in again to see if something else may have came loose and flew off the mower,” she wrote on Facebook.