BELLFOUNTAIN (AP) — Shelley Durrant can’t wait for the day when she can brush her teeth. For now, she’s just happy to be alive.

Durrant, 38, returned to her home in this Benton County community last week, two months after losing her arms in a tractor accident.

The mother of two girls hopes to get a prosthetic right arm in a couple weeks. A left arm will hopefully be in the works when that shoulder heals some more.

“I am so looking forward to being able to do something for myself,” she told the Gazette-Times newspaper of Corvallis.

On the morning of Oct. 3, Durrant was digging fence posts with a tractor-mounted auger. Doing work around the farm was nothing new for the single mom, who helped build a barn on her family’s property. But her clothing got caught in the machinery that day.

“I saw the tractor grab her and spin her body round and round,” said Raymond Dover, who phoned 9-1-1 and then wrapped clothes and towels around Durrant’s shoulders to try and stop the bleeding.

Durrant said she remembers almost everything until shortly before the paramedics took her to the old Bellfountain School. A helicopter landed there and flew her to a Portland hospital. The next thing Durrant recalls well is about three weeks later.

While she was away, locals completed the fence she was working on. And on Saturday, Durrant served as the grand marshal of the annual holiday parade in Monroe. She rode on an illuminated fire rig through town.

Durrant said she had moments of depression during her stays in a Portland hospital and rehabilitation center, but told herself she had to overcome them.

“You have to tell yourself, ’You can’t do that.’ There’s too much life ahead to mope,” she said. “There’s still life to live.”