A woman named Nicki Galley and her husband Matt Duke never expected that this day would forever change their lives. The two rode on their motorcycle and went for a ride. In a distance, they saw something in the ditch.
Unforeseen ordeal in the wild
According to the husband of Nicki, they tried to avoid the bear. They hit the bear squarely on. Nicki and Matt both survived and landed on a ditch, but with some injuries. Matt reached out and turned off the bike. Matt recalled he heard Nicki screamed loudly.
Matt got out of the ditch and saw on the road the bear lying on its back, Nicki’s helmet and a leg lying on the road. The leg of Nicki was cut when she hit the guardrail after they were thrown from the bike. Matt suffered injuries but tried to provide first aid on his wife as much as he could. His wife was seriously injured; she was severely bleeding and had plenty of broken bones. Some of the internal organs of Nicki were out of her body caused by the crash.
Matt later recalled that he had plenty of First Aid training, and he has self-confidence in providing first aid on his wife.
He called immediately emergency numbers. A man stopped by and tried to help but started to panic when he saw the condition of the situation. Paramedics arrived and started providing first aid on Nicki and Matt.
Later an Orange Air Ambulance arrived in the area. Nicki was brought to Sudbury and then later taken to Toronto. Nicki later recalled that she remembered the whole ride in the helicopter. She was asking the people how long we will arrive in the hospital because she wanted to be fixed up.
Nicki woke up after nine days in the trauma center at St. Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. She remembered upon waking up, the first person she saw was her son holding her hand. At that moment she does not know that she has lost a leg. And according to her mother, she has to deal with the amputation.
After the ordeal and totally recovered, Nicki went back to work, and not as active as she was before the accident. Despite that Nicki together with her husband Matt snowshoe in the winter, ran a 5 kilometer and swim.
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