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Tabitha Mullings claims she lost her hands and feet because doctors and emergency workers failed to properly diagnose and treat her.

Mullings spoke out Wednesday, saying she's determined to leave the hospital before the end of the year.

She added that she still has a lot to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.

"A lot of thanks to New Yorkers, for having me in their hearts and in their souls," said Mullings.

She says when she went to Brooklyn Hospital Center in September complaining of pain, doctors told her she had kidney stones and sent her home with painkillers.

When the pain didn't go away, Mullings says she called 911, but emergency workers told her she didn't need to be hospitalized.

The next day, Mullings went into septic shock and was taken back to the hospital. Doctors found a major infection and were forced to amputate her hands and feet. She was also left legally blind.

"In this city, in this state, in this country, a woman could go into the hospital with back pain and side pain and come out without her hands and feet and legally blind," said Sanford Rubenstein, Mullings's attorney. "That is unacceptable, that should never happen to anyone else in this country."

Mullings has filed a notice of claim against the city, the Fire Department, EMS, and Brooklyn Hospital and its doctors.

Brooklyn Hospital declined to discuss Mullings' medical care, citing patient confidentiality.