'Miracle Builder' With No Limbs Who Fell 50 Feet, Got Crushed by a Forklift Gets Bionic Arm

Three years ago, Loren Schauers, a construction worker, needed to go through an emergency hemicorporectomy after a forklift crushed him. Now, the 20-year-old man lives without legs, a forearm, or a pelvis.

As specified in a Daily Star report, known as the "miracle builder" who survived after his body was cut in half during a freak accident at the construction site, has smashed his fundraising target amounting to more than $10,000, with "do-gooders" donating over $88,500 towards his new "bionic arm."

Schauers, from Great Falls in Montana, is a hemicorporectomy patient who has been living minus his legs and right forearm for the past couple of years, a separate Daily Star report said.

It was in 2019 when he got involved in a horrific accident while working on a bridge with a forklift.

Hemicorperectomy Surgery

After getting very close to the edge because of traffic, the former construction worker fell 50 feet and was crushed by a forklift, causing the severity of his arm injury and crushing of his lower body.

Schauers then bravely decided to allow his doctors to perform hemicorperectomy surgery, where everything under his waist was amputated to save his life.

Now, even though the doctors thought he would not make it even following the surgery, he hopes to get his bionic arm soon after raising $90,000.

He said the arm would fully restore its sense of touch and movement and bring so much to his life. On the GoFundMe page, the young man wrote that his fight "has been a crazy one!"

He expressed happiness that even though he has a "Million and One people" supporting him and rooting him on to keep fighting.

Surgery Outcome

The operation of Schauers led him to remove his genitalia as his pelvis had been crushed, resulting in irksome questions about how he and his wife were engaging in sexual intercourse.

Responding to the question of sex on a Q&A interview, the man's wife Sabia said it was a "disrespectful question."

She elaborated that a question they're getting repeatedly is how they engage in that intimate activity and how they become private.

She also said that is quite a personal question they will never respond to or allude to, as it is certainly disrespectful.

The wife also said one would not ask a random couple on the street how they are engaging in sex, and just because their life occurrences are different, it does not give people the right to ask such questions.

How a Bionic Arm Works

Typically, a bionic arm works by picking up signals from the muscles of the user. When a user is putting on his bionic arm and flexing muscles in their residual limb just under their elbow.

An Open Bionics report specified that special sensors detect small naturally produced electric signals and convert them into the intuitive and proportional movement of the bionic hand.

The bionic hand, in particular, is controlled by tensing the same muscles used for opening and closing a bionic hand.

To close a bionic hand, and carry out the selected grip, imagine bending the twist inwards while pulling the fingers into the hand's heel. To open it, one may imagine extending his wrist with an "outstretched palm."

Related information about Loren Schauers is shown on Human Stories' YouTube video below:

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