19-year-old crushed by forklift chooses to amputate bottom half of his body

Girlfriend Sabia explained: “There were many heartfelt, teary, sad conversations within the span of the first month of him being in hospital.

”The first time we said goodbye was before his surgery but he still had his intubator in so he was writing to us as he couldn’t talk.

”The night before his surgery, he wrote ‘I love you’ on a piece of paper as it could have been our last night together. I still have that piece of paper today.

”The doctors would say he was going to die, we’d have a goodbye conversation and then he wouldn’t die.

”It sucked, to put it blatantly, we hated it. His health was teasing us, like ‘haha we’re fine now but going to die soon so you’ll all be sad’, but then he lived.”

The road to recovery
Needless to say, Loren faced a recovery process of epic proportions. Despite it all, though, he retained his will to pull through, and defied doctors’ expectations.

Initially, they had said he would be in hospital for at least 18 months, but he was out after three, including four weeks in rehab.

Of his battles, Loren said: “My best advice to anyone going through something like this is that you can’t focus on the things you can’t have and you must live your life to the fullest with what you do have.”

Despite the challenges he’s faced, Loren hasn’t allowed his condition to define him.

Together with his Sabia, now his wife, they share their story on YouTube, where they’ve garnered over 639,000 subscribers.