F4F - One Legged Mommy - Josie Wendel

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• Launch
• Had her entire leg amputated up to her hip joint, and she also had the muscles and tendons cut out of her arm - Had 28 surgeries during the nearly 2 months she spent in the hospital - 4th person in US to have this, and the only one to survive
• Review – text line – Mike from the East Coast
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• Josie Wendel
• Where are they from, what do they farm
• How’s the family - do they farm with family?
• Josie Wendel - Mom of 3 - Farm Wife - 31
• What are they up to today? – Mom night out?
• Amputee
• In 2015 was diagnosed with a rare strand of necrotizing fasciitis and become an amputee after less than 24 hrs of feeling sick
• Woke up at 3am on April 3, 2015, with aches and a fever
• Assumed she had contracted a late-season flu and called off work while their 10-year old son went with his babysitter
• At noon she developed painful muscles spasms that lasted hours
• Spent 6 hours taking hot showers because it was the only thing that made her feel better
• When her husband arrived home at 6pm, she made the decision to go to the ER
• Waited in the emergency room as it was full at the time
• Her parents got the hospital around 9:30 pm
• Found a football sized bruise on her left shin after ripping the blankets off of her leg (wasn’t there 4 hours ago)
• Life flighted to another hospital around midnight
• 1st surgery she had a 5% chance of coming back out
• Amputated below her knee with goal of preserving her quality of life
• Ended up needed at hi disarticulation, an amputation where the entire leg all the way up to the hip joint is removed
• 2 day after surgery displayed symptoms of necrotizing fasciitis in her forearm - rushed to surgery then
• Took out all the muscles and tendons from the top of her arm to clean it out
• Put a skin graft on top of her arm
• When her husband wasn’t at the hospital with her he was home making adjustments to it to make it handicap accessible
• She was in the SICU for 3 weeks before being moved to the burn unit for 2 more week
• Spend last weeks in the rehab unit
• Sent home on May 21, 2015
• Only saw her son twice in the hospital
• Had her entire leg amputated up to her hip joint, and she also had the muscles and tendons cut out of her arm
• Had 28 surgeries during the nearly 2 months she spent in the hospital
• 4th person in US to have this, and the only one to survive

• Today:
• Works on the farm
• Running the tractor
• Cattle chores
• Playing with her kids

Word association - Take the word we share and say the first thing thing that comes to mind connecting it to agriculture

• Coffee Kids Bacon
• Steak Cattle School
• Vodka Traffic Circle
• Chapter Text Sweat
• Sentiment Houseplant Harvest
• Pumpkin Museum Laughing

• What’s next for them?
• What can our listeners do to help?
• What can we do to help?

What does she like most about farmers?

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