Now considering the poor shape this photo started out as, I thought I would share a breakdown on how I salvaged it. Here is an animated gif of the whole process:

But where most of the work was done is in the RAW conversion.

As you can see it is quite obvious what I rejected this image in the first place.

Here are some of the settings I used to rescue this image.

Well I hope you enjoyed this little breakdown.
ShootingDave.