KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WVLT) - Knox County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Dalton Swanger has faced complications after being injured in the line of duty, and he is finally scheduled to receive a complicated surgery, according to his girlfriend, Stephania Pumphrey.

Pumphrey has taken to Facebook several times to explain Swanger’s health in the months since he was critically injured in June.

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In October, Pumphrey said Swanger had been on a ventilator and in a coma for an extended period of time. She also said he had tracheal stenosis, which is when someone’s trachea narrows, causing breathing complications.

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