Lane’s Story

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Early Sunday morning, April 11th 2021, Lane, along with multiple friends, were involved in a campfire explosion. At the ER, he was placed in a medically-induced coma and airlifted to HCMC burn unit. On Sunday afternoon he was taken out of the coma and allowed to breathe on his own and is doing great in that area. Lane's body was over 60% burned. His left side of his face, left hand, most of his legs and butt area. He has 1st and 2nd degree burns but mostly 3rd degree and possibly some 4th. Lane is going to be undergoing multiple surgeries with a lot grafting on his lower extremities. Lane goes in daily for cleaning and bandage changes but today, April 14th, they will being doing some deep cleaning to assess the degree of everything to figure out where all the grafting needs to be done. Lane is in a lot of pain and heavily sedated but overall he is being positive about everything that's happened. He will be in the hospital at a minimum of 3 weeks and that's if everything goes perfectly. If you have tried to reach out to Lane and he has not yet responded, please be patient as I know he would love to speak to all of you. Please know that all of your thoughts and prayers are greatly appreciated by all of us. Please keep them coming. Thank you and much love from all of us. Love, Lane, Kennar, Mom, Dad, and Tammy  A GoFundMe to help Lane with living expenses, loss of wages, and medical needs is in Lane's name,  in this site click on "ways to help" and then click on "GoFundMe website", It will bring you to Lane's page. Venmo is another option. search Lane Louwagie. Or if you prefer Donations can be made in his name at: Citizens Alliance Bank Attn: Lane Louwagie Benefit PO Box 276 Echo, Minnesota 56237 Granite Falls Citizens Alliance Bank also will be accepting them.

Newest Update

Journal entry by Tammy Nelson

From Kennar

Hope everyone's summer is going good and slow! Lane has started therapy 1-2 times a week in granite. The first week he was pretty tight and needed some extra stretching so he wouldn't tighten his legs up before his next appointment. The tightest area is his hamstring so he has been doing specific stretches to those. He is still at work all week. Fourth of July weekend he went in a lake (he has been cleared to do so) for the first time this summer. He has been in a pool for about 10 minutes. He says it's colder on his burns. Also his nerve pain makes the sensation odd when he has pants vs leggings. His skin has gotten tougher. It's still fragile but getting thicker. He's supposed to be getting a couple pair of compression leggings but has not received those yet... the color on his back and legs are getting more normal. His legs are still reddish depending on his activity of his legs.

Brody had an appointment and is trying to get the same time. That way Brody and lane can do there appointments together. So that will be easy and exciting for them to do that with each other. Pray for the specialist to keep the boys focused and productive.

Thank you everyone for the support through this... journey... know lane is getting better through every step. Literally. His next appointment is august 13th. I'm not sure if we'll update everyone on it.

But he is getting better. If you see him ask him about his John Deere leggings!
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