Good thing they called her mother.

An Alabama woman who was struck by a terrorist-driven pickup truck on New Year’s Day and later shot in the foot during the attack said her friends called her mom for help as she lay bleeding on Bourbon Street.

Alexis Scott-Windham said in an interview with NBC News on Friday that her mother, Tryphena Scott-Windham, told her friends to make a tourniquet to control her blood flow.

“So they took my sock off my left foot,” she said. “They tied it around my ankle to cut out the circulation.”

Then, Scott-Windham said, a stranger drove her to a nearby hospital. “I’m so thankful to him,” she said.

Tryphena Scott-Windham said she learned about applying tourniquets “from watching TV.”

“So I just told my daughter’s friend to just tie her other sock around her leg so she wouldn’t bleed so heavy,” she told NBC News. “I just blurted that out. I was in straight panic mode.”

Scott-Windham’s remarkable story emerged two days after a U.S. Army veteran from Texas, who authorities say had proclaimed his support for the Islamic State terrorist group, rammed his rented truck into a crowd of revelers, killing 14 people and injuring scores more.

The FBI and police have said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, 42, was inspired to commit mass murder by ISIS but that he likely acted alone.

Scott-Windham, who is 23 and lives in Mobile with her year-old daughter, Skai Marie Scott, had come with a group of friends to New Orleans to party. “It was a great vibe,” she said.

As the night wound down, she said, they stopped at a pizzeria to get a bite only to discover the kitchen was already closed.

While her friends were using the pizzeria’s bathroom, Scott-Windham said, she stood on the sidewalk outside, where she heard a revving engine and then what sounded like a series of loud booms.

Looking to her left, Scott-Windham said, she saw the white pickup truck heading directly at her.

“He was running over people like they were nothing, like they were speed bumps, like he would just run them over,” she said.

Scott-Windham said she tried to get away but the truck clipped the back of her right foot and she went down hard.

Then, the survivor said, she heard gunshots.

“That’s when I tried to run, but I couldn’t,” she said. “I knew something was wrong with my foot. I thought it was just a broken bone or something, but it wasn’t. My feet had started leaking.”

“I was bleeding a lot,” she said.

Scott-Windham said she also quickly became aware of the carnage around her. She recalled seeing one person lying face down and another with his eyes open and blood running down his face.

“As I’m getting up, I’m seeing a dead body on the side of me,” she said, adding that her first thought was, “Jesus, Jesus. Please, just let me make it home.”

Scott-Windham said she looked around for her friend Brandon Whitsett, 22, who was also injured in the attack, as she struggled to get out of harm’s way.

That’s when, she said, police arrived and an officer quickly looked at her injured foot and radioed for an ambulance to come get her.

“He like, ‘We have a GSW,’” she said, using the acronym for gun shot wound.

In the chaotic moments that followed, Scott-Windham said, her friends called her mother back home in Mobile, tied on the tourniquet, and then the stranger and his girlfriend drove her to the University Medical Center, where dozens of other wounded revelers were already being treated.

Scott-Windham said that as she waited for the doctors she was already counting her blessings.

“I’m just sitting there with my homemade tourniquet,” she said. “I was just thankful. I was blessed. I was just grateful. I was just like, ‘Lord, I’m just glad I made it to the hospital, Lord, because it could have been way worse.’”

Scott-Windham’s mother is not a nurse. In fact, the mother and daughter work together at an Amazon warehouse.

Earlier, in an interview with NOLA.com, Scott-Windham said Amazon had denied her request for a leave of absence even though she still has a bullet lodged in her leg and will need therapy. She said she feared she would need to find a new job.

“I was supposed to go, like, to work that Jan. 2, at 2 a.m.,” she told NBC News. “I said I was gonna need some time off, because I had just got shot.”

Amazon, which was hit by strikes in four states before Christmas after complaints by workers, released a statement after it was barraged with complaints from customers demanding that Scott-Windham be allowed time off to recover from her wounds. The strike of 10,000 employees across the country — out of 1.5 million people in Amazon’s workforce — was led by the Teamsters union and was resolved in less than a week. The company called the union’s involvement in the strike a “PR play,” according to CNN. 

“We’ve reached out to Ms. Scott-Windham to offer her our full support, including pay, as she recovers from this senseless act of violence,” Amazon spokesperson Kelly Nantel said to NBC News on Friday. “We wish her a full recovery and look forward to welcoming her back to work once she’s able.”

Scott-Windham confirmed that she heard from Amazon and will use her time off to recuperate. “So I’m blessed for that,” she said.

Tryphena Scott-Windham said she feels blessed too.

“I nearly lost my daughter,” she said. “I feel very sad for the other families, but my daughter was spared.”