VC Star<\/a> reported.<\/p>\nDoctors had to amputate her right arm, and she is now recovering at Ventura County Medical Centre.<\/p>\n
Her 22-year-old son Junior recalled the devastating event.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was going to go look for the ball, and by that time, I heard a screeching sound \u2014 like a branch breaking,\u201d he told VC Star.<\/p>\n
\u201cI thought nothing of it, but then I heard a big old thump, and people were running toward my mum.\u201d<\/p>\n
Junior said the family had decided to play mini golf to make something of Damien\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were trying to make his birthday a little bit better because it was mid-week, and we didn\u2019t know what to do,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe thought of something fast: play mini golf and then go have dinner afterward. But we never got to dinner.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Magana\u2019s husband Amando and two other mini golfers on the course had to lift the heavy tree off of her.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter that, we went straight into stopping the bleeding,\u201d Junior said.<\/p>\n
They then tried to stop the bleeding, using a belt as a tourniquet and instructing others to call emergency services.<\/p>\n
She was rushed to hospital where surgeons tried to save her arm, but the nerves and blood vessels were severely damaged.<\/p>\n
As a result, her arm was amputated just below the shoulder on August 7.<\/p>\n
Nancy, her daughter, said that there is a long road to recovery ahead of Ms Magana.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s a very strong woman\u2014even at this point. She\u2019s not able to talk, but she\u2019s able to nod her head. She has a long journey ahead of her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Magana will require subsequent surgeries so that she is able to use a prosethetic, and will also undergo rehabilitation.<\/p>\n
Her children are facing trauma after witnessing the horrific scene.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a lot to take in as a 13-year-old to witness that,\u201d Nancy said. \u201cIt\u2019s always going to be there for him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT A woman has had her arm amputated after a freak mini golf accident. Adela Magana,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85,2957,1720],"class_list":["post-74313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}