Featured Image Credit: Loren Schauers
Topics: Health
Jess Battison
The man who was cut in half by a forklift accident bravely shared a horrifying photo from the scene were his life changed forever.
In September 2019, Loren Schauers was just 18 when he was involved in a freak accident while working as a labourer.
He was driving a forklift across a bridge in the US when it veered off course and he was sent plummeting 50 feet to the ground.
Although the lad survived the accident, he suffered life-changing injuries after the four-ton vehicle fell on top of him and pinned him to the ground.
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Previously revealing he was conscious for the entirety of the scary ordeal, Schauers made the brave decision undergo hemicorporectomy surgery - where everything below his waist was amputated - to save his life after his pelvis was completely crushed.
Years on from the accident, the man has continued to open up about his life since, as well as sharing photos of the moment that nearly killed him.
Images show a forklift on its side off the side of a steep hill, with Schauers not visible under it.
On Instagram, he said: "If you look closely in the second photo, you can see me still pinned under the forklift. Last photo is exactly what type it was I’m sure of."
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At the time, his girlfriend-now-wife Sabia Reiche, was told by doctors Schauers would not survive and said goodbye to him a staggering six times.
Miraculously, he pulled through, but it’s been a bumpy road to recovery.
Speaking about the accident, he previously said: "I was conscious throughout everything, so I actually watched as the forklift fell on top of me and crushed my body.
"Every medical professional I come across is pretty amazed by everything, especially with the story that comes along with my injuries.
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"It wasn't a hard choice to have half of my body amputated - it was basically a choice of living or dying. 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!”
The lad documents his life with vlogs on a YouTube channel he shares with his wife. In a Q&A the pair were once asked how they have sex, to which Reiche replied saying it was 'disrespectful' to ask such a thing.
She said: "A question we get repeatedly is how do we have sex and how do we become intimate.
"That is a very personal question that we are never going to answer or allude to as it's very disrespectful.
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"You wouldn't ask a random couple on the street how they have sex and just because our life circumstances are different, it doesn't give people the right to ask."