Niamh Shackleton
A man who suffered a life-changing accident that ended up with him needing his lower body amputated has addressed one question people often ask him.
In 2019, Loren Schauers suffered a freak accident and ended up being chopped in half by a forklift.
Following the ordeal that could only be described as something straight out of a Final Destination movie, Loren had to have his lower body amputated after he 'lost blood flow to his legs'.
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Ultimately, the young construction worker had to undergo a hemicorporectomy - a procedure where a person's legs, the genitalia (internal and external), urinary system, pelvic bones, anus, and rectum are removed.
The lower part of his right arm was also amputated and he's since been fitted with a bionic arm.
Loren and his wife Sabia have been extremely candid about their lives since that fateful day in 2019 and share a lot of it on social media.
Their followers often have questions for the pair, but there's one topic that Sabia doesn't like and said it's 'disrespectful' when people ask about it.
"A question we get repeatedly is how do we have sex and how do we become intimate," she told Daily Star in 2022.
"That is a very personal question that we are never going to answer or allude to as it's very disrespectful.
"You wouldn't ask a random couple on the street how they have sex and just because our life circumstances are different, it doesn't give people the right to ask."
Another question Loren is asked about a lot is how he goes to the bathroom following his surgery.
Addressing the matter on a live Q&A, the former construction worker explained: "[I have] a colostomy which is my colon pulled out of my body so I can poop. And I have bilateral nephrotomies, they're tubes that go into my kidneys that drain my kidneys into bags so, therefore, that is how I poop, pee, and fart."
Loren's wife added that she is the one to change his colostomy bags.
It's safe to say that Loren and Sabia have been on quite the journey together since they started dating.
The couple had only been together 18 months when Loren sustained his life-changing injuries and the surgery that followed.
They then went on to wed in 2021 and still seem to be going from strength to strength.
At the time of writing, the couple boast almost 640,000 YouTube subscribers on their channel where they document their lives together.