told KSL TV.<\/a><\/p>\nJacque Tietijen suffered a near-fatal brain bleed in a hiking accident in Washington. Gofundme<\/p>\n
But while scaling the falls on Feb. 3, Jacque took a tumble. Her sister-in-law, Katherine Tietijen, told the outlet they suspect she either slipped and hit her head or was struck by falling rocks.<\/p>\n
Two other hikers on the waterfall pass came across a trail of blood that led them right to Jacque, who lay unconscious at the bottom of a 45-degree slope.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey took care of her, wrapped their coats around her, tried to get her body temperature up,\u201d Katherine told the local publication.<\/p>\n
Jacque was airlifted to Utah Valley Hospital, where she is still being treated for multiple brain bleeds, significant skull and facial fractures, and a minimal tear of the carotid artery, according to a GoFundMe posted by her family. <\/p>\n
Hikers on Bridal Veil Falls followed a trail of blood that led them to Jacque. Brandon Olafsson \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Jacque\u2019s family said she is an experienced hiker. Gofundme<\/p>\n
She had to be intubated while her medical team monitored swelling in her brain for \u201ca few days,\u201d Katherine said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf it starts to swell too much, they will have to do emergency surgery and take a piece out of her skull to give the brain space to expand,\u201d Katherine explained.<\/p>\n
The family is hailing the two hikers who rescued Jacque as heroes and credited them with likely saving her life. <\/p>\n
Jacque is currently intubated while doctors monitor swelling in her brain. Gofundme<\/p>\n
\u201cThe fact that they not just noticed that, but had the inclination to follow [Jacque\u2019s blood] and to investigate, that potentially has saved her life. Our family is so grateful. There are no words to how grateful we are to those men,\u201d Katherine told the outlet.<\/p>\n
The Tietijens were stunned by Jacque\u2019s confounding accident, given her extensive experience \u201con thousands of hikes.\u201d <\/p>\n
On the GoFundMe, which was just $600 away from its goal Sunday evening, highlighted Jacque\u2019s \u201cdeep love for the outdoors\u201d and deep connection \u201cto nature.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cWe know she will fight with everything she has to be able to return to her family and all the things she loves,\u201d her family wrote. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York woman nearly lost her life after shattering part of her skull on a solo hike…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":127282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[32384,55007,29796,9,11,10,58,6648],"class_list":{"0":"post-127281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-gofundme","9":"tag-good-samaritan","10":"tag-hiking","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-us-news","15":"tag-washington"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}