A group of people are working to help a PG man get some new wheels.
“Hunter Janson was in a skydiving accident two years ago, his parachute got tangled and he fell,” explains his friend Leah Glover, “He survived the fall but his left side has been affected, so he’s been in a wheelchair for some time now.”
“I’m sure that it (the parachute) did damper the speed of my fall but not sufficiently,” Hunter explains in a post to a GoFundMe page, “I landed on my feet, on impact I broke both ankles my feet, my left knee four times and my femur, immediately above my knee twice. I fell backwards and was knocked unconscious for about three weeks… Upon waking up, I had absolutely no idea of what had happened, I thought I had missed a call, I thought I was late for work. I tried to go to work!”
Months later, Hunter can’t use his left side, leaving him to get around on a manual wheelchair with essentially one arm.
“His left leg and his left hand…he can’t use them,” says Glover, “He is in assisted living, but he has a far ways to go if he wants to do anything independently like go to the grocery store.”
But a future recovery isn’t out of the question, as Janson awaits potential knee surgery.
As the fundraising page puts it, friends believe Hunter deserves a higher quality of life.
“Hunter doesn’t like to ask for help, but if he had an electric wheelchair to help him , he could cruise around without such a battle. Hunter’s life would be that much more simple, he could get out and do more things, being the young and courageous man he is.”
A GoFundMe page to raise money for an electric wheelchair has been set up, and is currently a little over halfway to its goal of $4000.
“I have always expected to be in the boots that would enable me to help others in situations similar to my own. I have had to come to the realization that I can’t be no matter how hard I try, I’m not in those boots, I may never be. Those boots will no longer fit,” explained Hunter, “I am of a decently young age. I have chosen to live a fairly adventurous lifestyle. As anybody, I have always believed that the way I have chosen to live, on the edge as such would hopefully lend to a superior banking of Life experience that I could share, was mainly what I always hoped for. Thank you for sticking through this painful unexpected period of my life with me.”
The GoFundMe page can be found here:
http://www.gofundme.com/sc2tcqxg
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