Surgeons told him ‘you’ll lose the lower half of your body or you may die in surgery’. When Loren woke up in hospital he knew something terrible had happened to his body. ‘After a day or two after consultations and talking, they took him off it and he woke up and he kind of had an idea what was going on.’ ‘So his sister fought really hard for him to be taken off the breathing tube so he could make the decision. ‘She didn’t know whether to have the surgery done and for him to wake up and hate her for it, or not have the surgery done and he dies and then she feels like she killed her son,’ she added. Sabia said Loren’s mum was power of attorney before the operation and had a difficult decision to make. Loren’s sexual organs has been removed as part of the surgery because his pelvis was also crushed. ‘But his sister really fought hard to let him make that decision.’ ‘And so there were fears in our heads that he wouldn’t want this surgery or would rather die than lose half of his body. She said to the Daily Star: ‘We were all like super shocked and none of us knew how to react and none of us knew how Loren would react because he’s an 18-year-old guy living life to the full. Sabia opened up about finding out when doctors told the family they would be forced to amputate everything below Loren’s bellybutton. He receives help every day from his loving wife, Sabia Reiche, aged 23, and they both have a YouTube channel with over 500k subscribers, where they document shared aspects of their life. Loren has now been living without his legs and right forearm for two years. īut while the family were having the conversation with doctors, Lore 'miraculously' woke up and begged doctors to perform the lifesaving operation. When he got to the hospital, doctors were forced to perform a hemicorperectomy on him, meaning everything below his waist was amputated to save his life.Īfter the operation, healthcare professionals didn’t think Loren would make it and his family had to decide there and then if the doctors should save him by cutting him in half. Loren Schauers, 20, from Great Falls in Montana, USA, was working in a forklift on a bridge in September 2019, but traffic forced him to get too close to the edge of the bridge, which made him plummet 50ft below and the forklift landed on him – severing his forearm and crushing his lower body. A man who was crushed by a forklift begged surgeons and his family to help keep him alive even if he was just a ‘head on a plate’.
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