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A South Dakota woman says she’s lucky to have survived after a freak accident involving a lawnmower left her fighting for her life with a gaping hole in her neck.
Kendra Jensen says she was more than 30 feet away from her husband, Andy Jensen, as he mowed the lawn at their Bridgewater home on July 11. Still, a sharp object managed to fly from the lawnmower and slice Kendra’s neck, narrowly missing her carotid arteries, “trachea, vocal cords and everything important,” shewrote in a Facebook postthe night of the incident.
Andy quickly grabbed his trauma bag, stuffed the wound with gauze and wrapped the area as they waited for an ambulance to arrive, Kendra continued in the post.
“She’s going to bleed out in front of me. That’s the very first thing that came to my mind,” Andy told KSFY. “I just put my thumbs in it and started going with the gauze.”
She was taken to a local hospital where doctors stitched the wound and told Kendra she was lucky that the object missed her trachea and one of her carotid arteries, NBC affiliateWTHR reported.
Kendra Jensen.GoFundMe
Kendra sharedphotos of the wound on Facebook, including pictures of doctors stitching her skin back together. The post has been shared 23,000 times.
A friend, Cassie Thomas, has set upa GoFundMe pageto cover Kendra’s medical expenses.
The page includes a statement from Kendra’s Facebook post: “Tonight I’m extremely lucky. I’m lucky to be alive right now.”
source: people.com
