Amy Purdy Got Candid About Vying for Next Paralympics Months Before Surgery for Health Crisis

Before she was diagnosed with a blood clot this month that left herstuck between keeping her transplanted kidney or her leg, 39-year-old snowboarding championAmy Purdywas focused on returning to the Winter Paralympics. Maddie Meyer/Getty But in aFacebookpost on Saturday morning, Purdy revealed that hitting the slopes multiple times a week while in her prosthetics may have had unexpected consequences on her body. After experiencing pain in her left leg, doctors discovered what she thought was a problem with her prosthetic was actually a “massive” blood clot stretching from her hip to the bottom of her left leg.

Amy Purdy Shows Off Her 'Real Legs' After 'Challenging' Three Weeks in Hospital Amid Health Scare

ParalympianAmy Purdyis speaking out amid her health crisis. The 39-year-old snowboarding champion, who experienced bacterial meningitis and lost her legs below the knees when she was 19 years old, was diagnosed in February with a blood clot. The diagnosis left herstuck between keeping her transplanted kidney or the remainder of one of her legs. After weeks of multiple surgeries to try to correct the problem without losing either body part, the snowboarding champion shared a photo of herself in the hopsital — sharing a photo of her “real” legs on social media for the first time.

Amy Purdy's Dancing With the Stars Essentials: See What's in Her Bag!

Courtesy Amy Purdy; Inset: GettyWith theDancing With the Starsfinale finally upon us Tuesday night, we couldn’t be any more thrilled that one of our early favorites, Amy Purdy, will be dancing for that coveted Mirror Ball Trophy (against other formidable contenders Candace Cameron Bure and Meryl Davis). Obviously theParalympic snowboarder‘s success can be attributed to a ton of hard work with partner Derek Hough (and somespecially designed “new feet”), but we had to ask: Does the athlete have anything that she keeps in her bag at all times for good luck?

Amy Robach 'Went to Mediation' with Andrew Shue and Was 'Waiting' to Announce Their Split: Source

Amy Robachwas waiting to announce her split from estranged husbandAndrew Shuebefore her relationship with herGMA3co-anchor,T.J. Holmes, was made public. A source tells PEOPLE that the journalist, 49, and Shue, 55, were “about ready to settle their divorce” prior to news breaking about Robach and Holmes' relationship. “They were waiting on [the settlement] to tell people,” the source says of the pair, who got married in 2010. “The whole point of why she waited to share the news that her marriage was over: she went to [divorce] mediation.

Amy Robach and Husband Andrew Shue on How Their Blended Family Inspired Kid's Book 'Better Together'

Photo: AMY ROBACH/Instagram Amy Robachand husbandAndrew Shueare hoping their experience as a blended family can help others learn to find common ground. Since tying the knot in 2010, Robach and Shue have been raising a blended family (whom they affectionately call the “ShueBachians”) with their five children from previous marriages, sons Nate, 25, Aidan 23, and Wyatt Shue, 18, plus daughters Ava, 18, and Annalise McIntosh, 15. “We felt that there was a story in our family’s story that could resonate with blended families, but also could just resonate with people in general in the country who are struggling a little bit to find the love and the common ground that we all share,” Andrew tells PEOPLE.