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Michael Izzo
May 16, 2015
"His first words were 'hi' and 'I love you,'" Bucher said. "And 'orange juice … I'm thirsty.'"
MORRISTOWN – A 26-year-old Marine veteran from Boonton has been in intensive care for more than six weeks after a grisly motorcycle accident in Denville left him with life-threatening injuries, including an "internal decapitation."
Kyle Chappell in Afghanistan with the Marine Corps 2nd Light Armored Recon Battalion.
(Photo: Photo courtesy of Jennifer Bucher)
Kyle Chappell has a long road ahead on his recovery, and his friends and family have started a crowdfunding campaign to help with the cost.
Chappell was driving his motorcycle to work on Diamond Spring Road, four miles from his Boonton home, on the morning of April 2 when he was hit by a car.
Chappell later would find out he suffered an "internal decapitation," meaning his skull separated from his spinal cord, a typically fatal occurrence. There are only about two dozen documented cases of people surviving the injury.
"It's such a miracle. All the credit and gratitude to the first responders for safely moving him," Kyle's mother, Jennifer Bucher, said. "They didn't know about the injury and moving him safely was pivotal to his survival."
Bucher said her son also dissected his aorta artery in two places.
"That aorta was a ticking time bomb. Dissecting it once would typically cause someone to bleed out in 10 minutes," she said. "But somehow it clotted on the way to the hospital."
Chappell's extensive list of injuries also included two collapsed lungs, a lacerated liver, kidney, spleen, a fractured femur, a broken tibia and fibula on his left leg and a broken ankle on his right leg.
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