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<blockquote data-quote="ArielManx" data-source="post: 873097" data-attributes="member: 11220">Both Tsyr and Azlan are referring to John Thompson of Hurdsfield, ND.&nbsp; Hurdsfield is about 50 miles from my hometown.&nbsp; I don't know John personally, but he is doing quite well and has made a lot of progress.&nbsp; I do know he's regained enough use of his arms and hands to write again, as I've seen pictures of him at signings for the book he wrote about his ordeal.&nbsp; More info about that can be found here:<a href="http://www.johnsbook.net/main.php" target="_blank">http://www.johnsbook.net/main.php</a>(He got caught in a power-take-off, actually - a threshing machine is an piece of farm equipment that hasn't been used since the 1940's or early 1950's.)The mountain climber story (amazing!) actually reminded me of a neighbor from back home who got caught in a hay baler.&nbsp; He managed to get one arm out and then somehow take off his shoes and wedge them between the rollers so he wouldn't be completely pulled in, but he couldn't get his left arm out because his watch was caught.&nbsp; So he just sat there and gritted his teeth until the baler finally cut his arm off (below the elbow)...then drove back to the farm and called for help.&nbsp; He still farms and hauls an 18' cattle trailer one-handed.&nbsp; He's one of my heroes.Ariel (The North Dakota Farm Girl<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="ArielManx, post: 873097, member: 11220"] Both Tsyr and Azlan are referring to John Thompson of Hurdsfield, ND. Hurdsfield is about 50 miles from my hometown. I don't know John personally, but he is doing quite well and has made a lot of progress. I do know he's regained enough use of his arms and hands to write again, as I've seen pictures of him at signings for the book he wrote about his ordeal. More info about that can be found here: [url]http://www.johnsbook.net/main.php[/url] (He got caught in a power-take-off, actually - a threshing machine is an piece of farm equipment that hasn't been used since the 1940's or early 1950's.) The mountain climber story (amazing!) actually reminded me of a neighbor from back home who got caught in a hay baler. He managed to get one arm out and then somehow take off his shoes and wedge them between the rollers so he wouldn't be completely pulled in, but he couldn't get his left arm out because his watch was caught. So he just sat there and gritted his teeth until the baler finally cut his arm off (below the elbow)...then drove back to the farm and called for help. He still farms and hauls an 18' cattle trailer one-handed. He's one of my heroes. Ariel (The North Dakota Farm Girl;) ) [/QUOTE]

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