A Deer hunter had part of his left leg amputated after his firearm accidentally discharged into his thigh during a deer hunting trip.
According to Newsweek, Mike Hendrickson was climbing a tree stand to wait for unsuspecting deers when his firearm discharged, causing him to fall to the ground. He was transported to the hospital where doctors amputated part of his leg after struggling to find a pulse in his foot.
Doctors decided that amputation was the best path forward after they found some “very concerning spots” in his leg, Newsweek reported, citing Hendrickson’s GoFundMe page.
Although the initial surgery went well, doctors had to perform an unplanned surgery because doctors were worried about bleeding coming from the bone. At the time, Hendrickson couldn’t feel or move his leg or foot, according to the report.
Newsweek also noted that “since Monday’s surgery, Hendrickson underwent two more surgeries to shape and close the residual limb and on Thursday, Pederson wrote in an update that he was in ‘extreme’ pain.”
“They expect this to go two steps forward one step backwards, there WILL be set backs but we will get through those when they come,” Matt Pederson, the creator of the fundraising campaign, wrote in a Monday update on the GoFundMe.
He hopes to raise $20,000 for Hendrickson and has reached the halfway mark, at nearly $11,000 as of Friday morning.
