![]() ![]() It sucked, to put it blatantly, we hated it. The doctors would say he was going to die, we’d have a goodbye conversation and then he wouldn’t die. The night before his surgery, he wrote ‘I love you’ on a piece of paper as it could have been our last night together. The first time we said goodbye was before his surgery but he still had his intubator in so he was writing to us as he couldn’t talk. “There were many heartfelt, teary, sad conversations within the span of the first month of him being in hospital. They also wanted to save his sperm, so he could have children at some point, but it was too late. Image credit: Loren Schauers / SWNS Medical experts at first believed his lower parts could potentially be saved, but then realized his pelvis was completely destroyed. The forklift rolled three times before crushing him at the bottom. He attempted to jump from the forklift as it was falling but his leg got entangled by his seatbelt, pulling him down the deadly hill. With Sabia assuring to stay by my side no matter what and all my immediate family being around me, it really wasn’t a hard choice for me!” Image credit: Loren Schauers / SWNS The terrible accident happened last year in September when Loren was pushed to the edge of a bridge by passing vehicles, which then broke down underneath him. “It wasn’t a hard choice to have half of my body amputated – it was basically a choice of living or dying. His girlfriend, Sabia, who is now 21-years-old, was told that he would not make it and she even said goodbye to him 6 times.īut miraculously Loren stayed alive, and the couple, who had been together for a year and a half at the time of the accident, said the events have brought them closer to each other, and they got engaged earlier in 2020. If you've ever felt like life was unfair and you couldn't go on, read this story about a teenager who lost the entire bottom half of his body in a forklift accident. He also lost his right arm in the process. Throughout the whole experience, Loren remained conscious and saw his right arm and the bottom half of his body stuck and deformed underneath the machine.Īnd in order to save his life, the young worker from Great Falls, Montana chose to undergo hemicorperectomy – a lower body amputation. 19-year-old Loren Schauers was operating a forklift across a bridge when it fell 50 feet to the ground, crushing him under its four-ton weight. ![]()
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