Maria Nehls

It is with a true open heart that I share this story and call onto a community to help a wonderful young lady with a bright future. Thank you in advance for taking the time to read this and for sharing with your close circle.

On August 22, Maria Nehls went out with her two best friends to celebrate the last night of summer before heading off to her freshmen year at Wisconsin. While riding an ATV, the driver experienced difficulties navigating a turn onto a residential driveway, according to Ozaukee County Sheriff’s Office Captain Marshall Hermann. The ATV traveled into a wooded area, stuck multiple trees and rolled over, throwing the three occupants from the vehicle. Maria suffered extensive injuries: large laceration to the side of her head with a skull fracture, 3 small brain bleeds, fractured orbital socket and cheek bone, broken collarbone and scapula, 3 cracked ribs and 3 broken vertebrae, compressed spine, a lacerated spleen and liver, bruised lung and arota, stretched ligaments in her neck, and a severely broken leg that required surgery.

With a long stay in ICU and now a stay in the Advanced Care Unit, ambulance ride, long term Physical Therapy and Breathing Therapy, and adjustments that will be needed to be made to their home for her wheelchair the Nehls family could use any support offered. Any and all donations would be greatly appreciated and will be used to help Maria continue on her journey to recovery.