Medical fund for Nachele Slaughter
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On June 27, 2018 at 3:15pm Nachele Slaughter experienced a blackout while driving home to her family.
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It was a single-vehicle accident and only Nachele was injured.
There was no property damage besides a chain-link fence, which stopped Nachele’s Chevy Trail Blazer from driving into a small empty property and, potentially, into an irrigation canal.
When the vehicle hit the fence – the fence pole at the top of the chain-link fence went through the front windshield, impaled Nachele’s upper-left shoulder and exited out her upper back on her left side.
But wait, there’s more….
The vehicle continued to push forward down the fence-line and roughly 55 feet of the fence-pole passed through Nachele’s shoulder and went out the back windshield of her Trail Blazer.
To get Nachele out of the Chevy, Paramedics used the “Jaws of Life” to cut off the doors of the truck and the door jamb, also to cut off parts of the steering wheel, and also to cut off the fence post - front and back - of Nachele’s body to be able to remove her from the vehicle.
In the O.R., the Trauma Doctors called the Engineering Department of the Hospital to bring a “metal saw” and grinder into the O.R. and cut the pinched end of the pipe off and smooth off the end so that they could pull the pipe out of her shoulder without more damage. X-Rays and other imagery followed to see if there were any significant organs, blood vessels or other connective tissues were damaged.
Fortunately, it was mostly tissue damage.
The pipe broke Nachele’s collarbone and a couple of ribs, which caused a partially collapsed left lung. They had to insert a chest tube to re-inflate her lung, which worked (!) Yaay!
Nachele has had 2 surgeries. The first was to remove the pipe/major debris. The second surgery was to clean out more debris and see if she needed a “wound pump”, or if it would just heal up on it’s own – which, yes, it will heal up on it’s own (very major wound).
Nachele is recovering at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. We don’t have an anticipated release date yet.
Quick Mention: Very fortunately, there was a Physicians’ Assistant (Chelsea Wood, P.A.) and Dr. Ronald Higginbotham - from a clinic across the street who rendered first aid, including stopping much of the bleeding. Thank you to both of them.
Thank you to our Awesome Extended Family and
friends for your help, for your prayers and for all your generosity.
God bless you every one.
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It was a single-vehicle accident and only Nachele was injured.
There was no property damage besides a chain-link fence, which stopped Nachele’s Chevy Trail Blazer from driving into a small empty property and, potentially, into an irrigation canal.
When the vehicle hit the fence – the fence pole at the top of the chain-link fence went through the front windshield, impaled Nachele’s upper-left shoulder and exited out her upper back on her left side.
But wait, there’s more….
The vehicle continued to push forward down the fence-line and roughly 55 feet of the fence-pole passed through Nachele’s shoulder and went out the back windshield of her Trail Blazer.
To get Nachele out of the Chevy, Paramedics used the “Jaws of Life” to cut off the doors of the truck and the door jamb, also to cut off parts of the steering wheel, and also to cut off the fence post - front and back - of Nachele’s body to be able to remove her from the vehicle.
In the O.R., the Trauma Doctors called the Engineering Department of the Hospital to bring a “metal saw” and grinder into the O.R. and cut the pinched end of the pipe off and smooth off the end so that they could pull the pipe out of her shoulder without more damage. X-Rays and other imagery followed to see if there were any significant organs, blood vessels or other connective tissues were damaged.
Fortunately, it was mostly tissue damage.
The pipe broke Nachele’s collarbone and a couple of ribs, which caused a partially collapsed left lung. They had to insert a chest tube to re-inflate her lung, which worked (!) Yaay!
Nachele has had 2 surgeries. The first was to remove the pipe/major debris. The second surgery was to clean out more debris and see if she needed a “wound pump”, or if it would just heal up on it’s own – which, yes, it will heal up on it’s own (very major wound).
Nachele is recovering at St. Alphonsus Hospital in Boise. We don’t have an anticipated release date yet.
Quick Mention: Very fortunately, there was a Physicians’ Assistant (Chelsea Wood, P.A.) and Dr. Ronald Higginbotham - from a clinic across the street who rendered first aid, including stopping much of the bleeding. Thank you to both of them.
Thank you to our Awesome Extended Family and friends for your help, for your prayers and for all your generosity. God bless you every one.
Organizer and beneficiary
Connie Gustin Pedersen
Organizer
Boise, ID
William Slaughter
Beneficiary
