A builder who was sliced in half by a forklift has shared devastating pictures of the moment the vehicle landed on top of him. Loren Schauers was operating the machinery on a bridge when he fell 50ft in September 2019.
The truck cut off his arm and crushed his lower body, with the labourer making the brave decision to let doctors amputate from his abdomen downwards to save his life. He has faced a long road to recovery since the accident, with the now 21-year-old still suffering with phantom pain from missing his limbs three years on, the Mirror reports.
In a recent social media post, Loren shared photos of the horrifying moment the forklift almost killed him on the construction site. The pictures show the carnage after he got too close to the edge due to traffic and plummeted off of a bridge while operating the truck.
"If you look closely in the second photo, you can see me still pinned under the forklift," he said on Instagram.
Loren, from Great Falls in Montana, USA, has been documenting his road to recovery over the last three years. Since the accident, he has taken to his new life admirably well and shares intimate details of his experience with weekly vlogs on YouTube.
His devoted wife Sabia Reiche, 23, who shares the account, has stayed by his side through all his health problems and helps him perform many daily tasks. Due to his mobility issues, Loren needs help changing his colostomy bags and showering.
Responding to personal queries about how the couple have sex on a Q&A, Loren's wife Sabia branded the question 'disrespectful'. 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.
"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."
Loren had told his family to keep him alive even if he was just a "head on a plate" following the accident. His family were left with the devastating decision of whether to ask doctors to save him.
But when the construction worker was later able to speak for himself, he looked doctors "dead in the eye" and asked for a lifesaving op.
For the past three years, he has been living in Montana with the help of Sabia.
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