Man paralysed after falling from Bali roof chasing a monkey that stole his hat
A man has been left paralysed after he fell from a roof in Bali while chasing a monkey that had stolen his favourite hat.
Jeff “Swede” Swedenhjelm, from Florida in the US, fell 10 metres on Monday from the building in Uluwatu chasing after his Pittsburgh Steelers NFL cap.
Villagers took him to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with severe damage to his spinal cord. He is currently paralysed from the chest down.
"I had an accident that has crippled me from the chest down, and has only allowed me to feel a tingling sensation in [my] hands and arms," Mr Swedenhjelm said on a GoFundMe page
"Other than that the only parts are working are my head and my heart, which is how I hope to reach you.
"Early diagnosis is that full recovery is rare and partial recovery will take at least 3 months to gain feeling in my lower extremities and possibly over a year to walk again."
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His daughter Lyric Swedenhjelm, who lives in Destin, said the family is trying to get her father to a country with a spinal specialist. She said Mr Swedenhjelm was in a medically induced coma and on a ventilator.
"We now desperately need to get him moved by MEDEVAC to either Taiwan, Singapore or Malaysia where some of the best spinal surgeons in Asia reside," she wrote.
The GoFundMe has already raised more than $46,000.
