Julie Dombo calls it the best Christmas present she's ever had. Someone she and her husband John only recently met paid for her new prosthetic hands.

"It was overwhelming to me," Dombo said Wednesday.

Dombo became a quad amputee after being shot by James Michael Phillips while he was robbing a Derby phone store in August 2015. Phillips was sentenced last month to 31 years in prison.

Dombo told KAKE News she's also been battling with her insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas. Dombo explained the company won't pay for myoelectric prosthetic hands, but will pay only for prosthetic hooks.

But this week, she got a big surprise.  

Mark Holden is Senior Vice President of Koch Industries' Legal Department. Holden was the keynote speaker at the Wichita Crime Commission's banquet in October, on the same night Dombo was honored with the Citizen Hero of the Year award.  

Holden said hearing Dombo speak and meeting her at the banquet captured his and his wife Louise's attention. Holden said they decided to take action. So, he explained, Monday night they called the Dombos and asked to meet at their Derby home.

"I walked in and Julie was at the top of the staircase," Holden recalled. "She said, 'Hello Mark, what do you have?' And I walked upstairs to greet her.  And I said, 'Remember when we met? You told me you wanted your arms.  So this is what we got you. Your arms. Merry Christmas.'"

"And I just immediately started crying," Dombo related. "It was like all of a sudden... you realize you have the winning lottery ticket."

The cost of the prosthetic hands is $260,000. "I'm just still kind of in shock that somebody would do that," Dombo added.