Man Miraculously Survives Skydiving Accident After Beating Cancer, A Texas man miraculously survived a skydiving accident, just years afterwards assault a abutting alarm with cancer.
Cody Swenson, 25, is a skydiving adviser with 1,700 all-overs beneath his belt, so leaping from an aeroplane is accustomed for him. But in aboriginal February, a accepted dive al of a sudden went awry.
He told InsideEdition.com that he was attempting to do a "Hop-n-Pop," in which a skydiver all-overs from a abundant lower distance and accept to cull the parachute aural abnormal of departure the plane.
"I didn't apprehension something was amiss until about two abnormal from impact," he said. "I was thinking, 'Man, this is traveling to be a nice swoop,' [then I realized] 'I absolutely messed up acceptable this time.'"
Swenson hit the arena at about 60MPH, and anon knew he bankrupt his femur if he bounced off the ground.
"Then, I accomplished I was [still] aerobatics through the air afterwards I hit, and I had to accumulate aerial my parachute as best as possible," Swenson said. "When humans stop aerial their parachute afterwards an impact, they usually die on the additional impact."
Swenson, who was acquainted through it all, was rushed to the hospital, area doctors had to admit screws and rods into his torn femur and pelvis.
But Swenson is all too accustomed with surgical implants.
When was 17, he was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a attenuate cartilage cancer. He underwent chemotherapy afore surgeons removed the bump in his spine, and replaced it with rods, screws, and allotment of a new rib cage.
When he was declared cancer-free in 2009, his angle on activity was changed.
"Cody capital to feel free, to reside activity to the fullest, to acquaintance what a lot of of us are abashed too and never accept a affliction if the blight should return," his GoFundMe page writes.
And now, afterwards accepting survived the skydiving accident, Swenson has exhausted the allowance twice.
"I am actual advantageous to be alive," he told InsideEdition.com. "There accept to be a purpose for me getting here."
He is now convalescent at home, with four weeks larboard until doctors say he can activate to put weight on his legs. He is aswell allurement accompany and ancestors to abutment his accretion by altruistic to his GoFundMe page.
Swenson adds that he appreciates the abutment from his ancestors and Skydive Dallas through his recovery.
Cody Swenson, 25, is a skydiving adviser with 1,700 all-overs beneath his belt, so leaping from an aeroplane is accustomed for him. But in aboriginal February, a accepted dive al of a sudden went awry.
He told InsideEdition.com that he was attempting to do a "Hop-n-Pop," in which a skydiver all-overs from a abundant lower distance and accept to cull the parachute aural abnormal of departure the plane.
"I didn't apprehension something was amiss until about two abnormal from impact," he said. "I was thinking, 'Man, this is traveling to be a nice swoop,' [then I realized] 'I absolutely messed up acceptable this time.'"
Swenson hit the arena at about 60MPH, and anon knew he bankrupt his femur if he bounced off the ground.
"Then, I accomplished I was [still] aerobatics through the air afterwards I hit, and I had to accumulate aerial my parachute as best as possible," Swenson said. "When humans stop aerial their parachute afterwards an impact, they usually die on the additional impact."
Swenson, who was acquainted through it all, was rushed to the hospital, area doctors had to admit screws and rods into his torn femur and pelvis.
But Swenson is all too accustomed with surgical implants.
When was 17, he was diagnosed with Ewings Sarcoma, a attenuate cartilage cancer. He underwent chemotherapy afore surgeons removed the bump in his spine, and replaced it with rods, screws, and allotment of a new rib cage.
When he was declared cancer-free in 2009, his angle on activity was changed.
"Cody capital to feel free, to reside activity to the fullest, to acquaintance what a lot of of us are abashed too and never accept a affliction if the blight should return," his GoFundMe page writes.
And now, afterwards accepting survived the skydiving accident, Swenson has exhausted the allowance twice.
"I am actual advantageous to be alive," he told InsideEdition.com. "There accept to be a purpose for me getting here."
He is now convalescent at home, with four weeks larboard until doctors say he can activate to put weight on his legs. He is aswell allurement accompany and ancestors to abutment his accretion by altruistic to his GoFundMe page.
Swenson adds that he appreciates the abutment from his ancestors and Skydive Dallas through his recovery.
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