Turia Pitt reveals fiance’s first thought as she lay dying in hospital

Burns survivor Turia Pitt has revealed the heartwarming six words her partner thought as she lay dying in hospital in 2011.

Turia Pitt has revealed what first went through her now-fiancé’s mind as she lay dying in hospital after being caught in a grassfire in 2011.

Surgeons told Michael Hoskin that his girlfriend might not live and asked if he wanted to see her, warning she looked different.

She had burns to 65 per cent of her body. As Turia described it, her head was the size of pumpkin and shaved.

Michael thought: “If Turia’s going to die, I want to remember her how she was, with long dark hair and her big smile and her full lips.”

And then his second thought was, “If she survives, I’ll marry her.”

Turia revealed the heartwarming moment on her blog, sharing that Michael used his inheritance from his Nan to buy a ring from a shop in Kununurra.

The diamond in it was from the mine where Turia worked as an engineer.

Turia Pitt and Michael Hoskin pictured in 2016, the year after they got engaged. Picture: Instagram

In 2015, Michael proposed in the Maldives.

“I’ve always loved diamonds – they’re literally the hardest stuff on earth. But despite my affinity for them, I’ve always thought it was weird that a mineral almost exactly the same as graphite is worth so much money,” Turia wrote.

She then went on to explain how she lost the beautiful ring in the south of France.

It was dangling around her neck on a necklace at the time.

“On the way to the airport in a taxi, I was swinging my ring/necklace back and forth in front of Hakavai and laughing at his grunts and squeals of delight,” she said.

“It was only when I started to walk through our departure gates that I realised I had left it in the bloody taxi.”

Turia and Michael with their children Hakavai and Rahiti. Picture: Instagram

She hid the fact it was gone from Michael for months, making excuses for why she wasn’t wearing it, until he figured it out.

“If I’d wanted to make 100 per cent sure I had my diamond ring forever, I could have never worn it and kept it in a safe my whole life,” she said.

“But instead it had a great (albeit short) life. It was with me through the best times – it came to Tahiti, the Maldives, watched me finish at Ironman Kona, walked the Kokoda Track with me and, best of all, it was there to give Hakavai a metallic welcome to the world.”

Reflecting on the moment led Turia to share an important message: “Life is short. Go and enjoy it.”

“At the end of the day, life is not about the ring or whatever precious commodities you have squirrelled away,” she said, reminding people diamonds and other valuable stuff only have the meaning that we give them.

Turia was competing in a 100km ultra-marathon when she was caught in a grassfire in Western Australia’s Kimberley Region. She was airlifted to hospital and spent two gruelling years in recovery. She was just 24 year old at the time.

Michael and Turia first met in high school and became a couple later on.