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Destin man fights for life after falling off roof in Bali
Updated Dec 23, 2017 at 8:17 AM
Jeff “Swede” Swedenhjelm fell 33 feet Monday while chasing a monkey across a rooftop. The monkey had stolen his favorite Steelers cap.
A former Destin man known as the life of the party and a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan is fighting for his life in a hospital on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Jeff “Swede” Swedenhjelm fell 33 feet Monday while chasing a monkey across a rooftop. The monkey had stolen his favorite Steelers cap.
Villagers found Swede and brought him to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with severe damage to his spinal cord. He currently is paralyzed from the chest down.
“Our utmost concern is to get Swede out of Bali and into a country with a spinal specialist,” said his daughter, Lyric Swedenhjelm, who is a college student.
She said the medical care in Bali is what one might expect in a third world country, and that her father didn’t even have an MRI for almost 24 hours after the accident.
Swedenhjelm is in a medically induced coma and is on a ventilator, his daughter said. He also has pneumonia.
Her father has no medical insurance and no money, Lyric said. He left Destin several years ago to work in Bali. She and her mother still live in Destin.
Destin man fights for life after falling off roof in Bali
Updated Dec 23, 2017 at 8:17 AM
Jeff “Swede” Swedenhjelm fell 33 feet Monday while chasing a monkey across a rooftop. The monkey had stolen his favorite Steelers cap.
A former Destin man known as the life of the party and a huge Pittsburgh Steelers fan is fighting for his life in a hospital on the Indonesian island of Bali.
Jeff “Swede” Swedenhjelm fell 33 feet Monday while chasing a monkey across a rooftop. The monkey had stolen his favorite Steelers cap.
Villagers found Swede and brought him to a local hospital, where he was diagnosed with severe damage to his spinal cord. He currently is paralyzed from the chest down.
“Our utmost concern is to get Swede out of Bali and into a country with a spinal specialist,” said his daughter, Lyric Swedenhjelm, who is a college student.
She said the medical care in Bali is what one might expect in a third world country, and that her father didn’t even have an MRI for almost 24 hours after the accident.
Swedenhjelm is in a medically induced coma and is on a ventilator, his daughter said. He also has pneumonia.
Her father has no medical insurance and no money, Lyric said. He left Destin several years ago to work in Bali. She and her mother still live in Destin.