It's a nightmare Stephanie Fehr keeps waiting to wake up from.
The Swift Current resident is in Texas with her husband, Danny, who remains unconscious after sustaining a rattlesnake bite and cardiac arrest late last month.
"It's like watching the strongest man that you know fall," Fehr said. "It's incomprehensible right now. None of this has made sense to us. I feel like we're in the Twilight Zone, and this didn't actually happen, and we're gonna wake up one day, but unfortunately, that's not the case.
"His kids need him, I need him. My whole world is lying in that hospital bed."
Danny Fehr was golfing on July 27th when a rattlesnake bite sent him into anaphylactic shock and cardiac arrest. He has yet to wake up.
"He's still unconscious," Fehr said. "He went for a second trach yesterday because the first one was ill-fitting so they found one a longer for him now and he looks more comfortable and rested. He's not coughing as much or as restless in bed. He's actually looks really peaceful right now. They just said it was it's day-to-day. If he hasn't woken up in three months, he may never."
Danny's condition and being stuck in the United States has caused significant financial challenges for the Fehr family.
"Financially, we're in ruins here," Stephanie Fehr said. "I don't know what we're going to do. We're stuck here. Tensions are high and our emotions are high. We don't know this place. It's really hard. We pretty much make the trip from the crew house to the hospital. That's all we do all day long. And now I just feel like we're trapped here because I feel like Danny's being held for ransom because until we come up with the funds to fly him home, he has to stay.
"It's not regulated here. The prices are ridiculous. We've got quotes from $91,000 until we finally got one that was $45,000, which is a lot better. But day-to-day, we're just trying to get the funds to try to pay for this so we can take him home because they said he's good to go tomorrow."
The Fehr family has had support from the community in their time of need. A GoFundMe has already raised over $32,000.
"I can't believe that complete strangers are trying to help us," Fehr said. "The love we're getting from everybody. This is hard. He's 48 years old. Like the pledges everybody keeps giving, it just means so much to our family. It just shows you how kind people are and how people come together in a crisis to help one another. It means so much to my family."