Woman gored by bison at Yellowstone gets engaged in hospital

The woman “gored” by a bison at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming is now engaged — a silver lining to an otherwise very traumatic experience.

Amber Harris, 47, took to Facebook to announce the news on the heels of Monday’s attack, which happened during a trip she, daughter Rylee, and now-fiancé Chris Whitehill had been looking forward to for the better part of a year.

Noting that she would not “be able to leave” the hospital “any time soon,” Harris said Whitehill modified the “beautiful marriage proposal” he was originally planning “on a natural bridge.”

“My love got down on one knee beside my hospital bed last night and formerly asked me to be his wife,” Harris wrote. “Without any hesitation I said yes!”

The trio was en route to Yellowstone Lake when they spotted two bison, one of which was on their path and the other heading in the opposite direction, according to Harris.

“We stopped and looked at the massive beast, about 50 yards away on the trail, hidden at first in the shadows of the tress [sic]. We watched him drop and roll in the dirt, like a dog would. He got up on his feet and started walking then running towards us,” she recounted.

She noted that she was transported by helicopter to Idaho. Harris, according to her post, “sustained seven spine fractures, bilateral collapsed lungs and bruising all over,” but noted that her “vital organs look good.”

The National Park Service confirmed in a release, in which the victim was unnamed, that the woman “sustained significant injuries to her chest and abdomen.” The goring was under investigation at the time of the NPS statement.