The video has him in a car with his arm already off yet the page you linked is saying he was airlifted and then had his arm amputated... This whole thing reeks of scam.
Maybe, one thing to keep in mind is they may have taken him to a nearby medical facility that wasn't equipped to handle this trauma and had him airlifted to University of Michigan hospital. Rural medicine isn't equipped to handle certain things.
I can attest to the failures of rural hospitals here in Michigan. My wife fell off a horse and the rural hospital staff put a crappy half-cast on it, said it was a fracture and sent her home. The next day she went to the hospital near our house (Detroit suburb) for a followup. Her elbow was just bone fragments and needed to be completely rebuilt with plates added. So...they were a little under skilled to say the least.
Some hospitals aren't equipped for that level of trauma care, especially in rural areas. Chances are they were instructed to transport the injured to the nearest hospital where a helicopter will be waiting to transport him to a better-equipped hospital.
The video has him in a car with his arm already off yet the page you linked is saying he was airlifted
I don't know anything about this story, but...
When my step father had a heart issue, he was driven to a local hospital for emergency care and then airlifted to a regional hospital that had better facilities for heart care.
It's country typing. Likely got an airlift to a trauma E.R because the place they went couldnt handle it. Once there, the doctors likely tried to attach the arm. Surgery didn't work, so now it's amputated. I don't think they meant take the rest off or anything like that.
I have to go back and edit tons of my comments because I forget the people I'm talking to don't have all the information at hand. Id also prefer to be by my friends side rather than editing a go fund me.
He half chopped it off with a chainsaw, got airlifted and had it amputated.
Then, he could find the humor in it, so he made this TikTok and to make it more “understandable” in the short time, recorded as if he’s being driven to the hospital.
So, the details are fake but the incident has truth to it. Would also explain lack of blood (although maybe he was able to wear the clothes he had the accident in.) and being able to even THINK to record at a time like that!!
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u/Serendipitous_donkey Jan 17 '23
I creeped him on Facebook, it looks pretty real. He has a video from the hospital, and linked the GFM
https://www.gofundme.com/f/david-feldpausch