A Minnesota mother was left nearly paralyzed and fighting for her life after a 15-foot birch tree holding the hammock she was sitting in snapped, hit her in the back of the head and br♏oke her neck, according to a media report.
“All of a sudden this big boo💙m hit me in the back of the head,” Alyssa Pfannenstein, 25, from her hospital bed.
Pfannenstein was watching her 4-year-old daughter play in a park with her boyfri🅠end Justin Janssen over Labor Day weekend at the time of the incident.
“It was surreal,” Janssen said. “At the moment, there w♔as not even time to panic because it happened so quickly.”
They had no idea the tree they’d hung their hammock on was rotting on the inside, which i🔴s wh💃at caused it to snap.
Pfan🅰nenstein neck was broken and she found herself unable to move but the tough mother remained calm throughout the ordeal.
“Her calmness caꦺlmed me and her daughter down and made us understand everything would be OK,” Janssen said.
The young mother has spent the last twelve days immobilized at the Hennepin County Medical Ce🍃nter bu𒁃t doctors say she is making progress and has regained some mobility in her arms.
She’ll soon head𒊎 to a rehab fa🦩cility to work on mobility and strength.