The Long Journey to HealCELESTE CORCORAN FROM LOWELL, MASS. WAS STANDING WITH HER DAUGHTER SYDNEY, 18, ON THE SIDEWALK OF BOYLSTON STREET NEAR THE BOSTON MARATHON FINISH LINE WHEN THE FIRST BOMB EXPLODED NEXT TO THEM. HER HUSBAND KEVIN WAS NOT INJURED AND USED HIS BELT TO STOP THE BLEEDING IN HER LEGS. CELESTE LOST BOTH LEGS AND SYDNEY NEARLY BLED TO DEATH FROM A SEVERED FERMORAL ARTERY IN HER THEIGH. THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN MOTHER AND DAUGHTER WAS ALWAYS STRONG, BUT CELESTE AND SYDNEY DEPENDED ON EACH OTHER MORE THAN EVER. SYDNEY IS ALWAYS THERE TAKE TAKE CARE OF HER MOTHER, WHETHER IT IS A HELPING HAND OR A SHOULDER TO LEAN ON WHEN CELESTE IS HAVING A BAD DAY. CELESTE HAS COME A LONG WAY IN HER RECOVERY AND PLANS ON CROSSING THE FINISH LINE IN THE 2014 BOSTON MARATHON IN ONE WAY OR ANOTHER.

Boston-5/03/13- Sydney Corcoran from Lowell, Massachusetts lies next to her trail of blood as she is comforted on the sidewalk at the site of the first Boston Marathon bombing. She was standing with her mother Celeste and father Kevin to cheer on her aunt was was running. A piece of shrapnel the size of a cell phone from the pressure-cooker bomb severed her femoral artery. She nearly bled to death. She fell fifteen feet away from her mother who lost both legs in the bombing.