{"id":119988,"date":"2020-11-25T02:44:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/teen-who-was-crushed-by-forklift-opens-up-about-amputation\/"},"modified":"2020-11-25T02:44:18","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T23:44:18","slug":"teen-who-was-crushed-by-forklift-opens-up-about-amputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/teen-who-was-crushed-by-forklift-opens-up-about-amputation\/","title":{"rendered":"#Teen who was crushed by forklift opens up about amputation"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Teen who was crushed by forklift opens up about amputation<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

\n This teen is living his best life, despite the odds.<\/p>\n

Loren Schauers was working at a Wilsall, Montana, bridge-rehabilitation construction site in September 2019 when, veering to avoid a car as it illegally passed by him, he drove his forklift too close to the edge and the ground beneath him crumbled. He tried to jump from the falling forklift but his leg became trapp<\/a>ed in the seat belt and he plummeted 50 feet before being pinned by the 2,200-pound vehicle.<\/p>\n

\u201cI tried staying on top of the forklift as much as I could as it rolled, and then I was thrown from the forklift at the end of the hill once it finally landed,\u201d the 19-year-old told the Sun<\/a>. \u201cMy eyes were wide open and I saw the forklift come down and land on my hips and my right forearm.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doctors told Sabia Reiche, his girlfriend of 18 months at the time of the accident who is now his fianc\u00e9e, that he wouldn\u2019t make it. But after performing a hemicorporectomy surgery \u2014 amputating everything beneath his waist \u2014 Schauers miraculously pulled through.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a hard choice to have half of my body amputated \u2014 it was basically a choice of living or dying,\u201d Schauers, who also lost his right forearm and hand in the wreck, said. \u201cWith Sabia [promising] to stay by my side no matter what and all my immedia<\/a>te family being around me, it really wasn\u2019t a hard choice for me!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Loren Schauers, 19, who was crushed by a forklift, opens up about his amputation.<\/span>News<\/a>flare<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, after three months in the hospital and four weeks of rehab, he\u2019s home with his love and doing as well as possible.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor starters, we take this sock and we put Loren\u2019s nephrostomy tubes through the back of it,\u201d says 21-year-old Reiche in a video showing her helping Schauers with his medical equipment, before sliding the sock over the bottom of Loren\u2019s torso. \u201cAnd then he lifts up and I pull the sock down and make sure that his nephrostomy tubes are coming out nice around these holes. We pull it back \u2014 ah, not yet,\u201d she says as Schauers begins to stop holding up his torso and lie back down.<\/p>\n

The teen is then seen moving through the snow in a plow-equipped automatic wheelchair, carrying on with his life \u2014 and living it to the fullest.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery medical professional I come across is pretty amazed by everything, especially with the story that comes along with my injuries,\u201d he said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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