13-Yr-Old Boy Paralyzed After Making an Attempt to Escape Wasp at Group Swimming Pool

Now, Anya Camper is praying for a miracle that can enable her son Semyon “SJ” Williams Jr. to stroll and use his arms once more. All of it went wrong on June 20, the first day of summer, when SJ and his pals wanted to go to the pool in the North Texas neighborhood of Frisco.

What happened was about as horrific an accident as anyone could ever think about. “Mainly, he and his pals had been simply taking part in operating away from a wasp and he simply takes off and simply dives into the pool,” Anya mentioned, as coated by KTVT.

She describes her son as an avid swimmer, however the soccer participant’s abilities within the water could not assist him when he apparently jumped into the shallow finish. “He is unsure precisely what dive he did,” Anya famously said, saying that her son solely had one reminiscence of that fateful accident.

All he can recall is coming to consciousness face down on the backside of the pool, taking in water and unable to maneuver. With all due respect. “He couldn’t transfer. He was actually ingesting water. So it is onerous to listen to,” she mentioned of that second for SJ. “He actually informed me, ‘Mother, I assumed I used to be going to drown as a result of I could not transfer.’”

SJ was rescued from the pool by a good friend and shortly taken by ambulance to Youngsters’ Well being in Dallas. After a battery of examinations, the household discovered that he had fractured his neck and shattered his spinal cord. He needed to have surgical procedure on June 21 for his neck, however he could by no means regain using his physique.

Dr. Bruno Braga, a pediatric neurosurgeon at the hospital, informed KXAS in Dallas that SJ fractured his 4th and sixth cervical vertebrae, and elements each in entrance of and behind the spinal canal.

“The truth that he had no motor or sensory performance under the extent of harm, that is not a great indication that he will recover a lot, but it is too quickly to inform and we simply have to wait and see,” Braga informed the outlet.

“Quadriplegic — when he mentioned these phrases, that is a distinct kind of feeling,” mentioned Anya of what docs informed her.

“You hear about issues like this, you see issues like this, you by no means count on it to be your story till it’s,” Anya informed KXAS. “In terms of your entrance door it shakes you, that is precisely what it’s finished for us.”

However SJ’s grandfather Louis Camper mentioned the household is not giving up on SJ’s future, however they’re more being real looking. “The truth is, this can be a long highway. This is going to be a marathon for us and we now have to assist him and be with him every step of the way in which,” he mentioned.

“It hits the core. At 13 years old, you are solely simply starting to dwell, you understand,” he continued. “And so we are true religion believers. And it is not over till God says so.”

For now, SJ’s mom has taken a go away from her job to remain by her son’s facet. “We are praying and believing that God will do a miracle,” she mentioned, “carry out a miracle on my son as a result of he has an excessive amount of extra for all times to dwell.”

If SJ’s prognosis does not change, all things will vary for the boy and his household. In the meantime, Anya says she feels helpless. “In order for a mother, it is simply gut-wrenching as a result of, as I mentioned, wishing to be actually helpless,” she mentioned. “He is looking for me to repair it. And that is one factor I can’t do. I can’t repair this. So it is onerous.”

HAS GoFundMe has been arranged by SJ’s brother Louis, the place he shared that on Day 8 SJ handed his swallow exam and may now start to eat common meals and drink usually. In his description of the occasion, Louis praised SJ’s good friend, writing, “it weren’t for one among his pals realizing that he wasn’t ‘simply floating’…my mother would have been planning a funeral.”

With nearly 1,000 donations already, Louis’ fundraiser on behalf of his brother SJ has raised more than $56,000 toward its $100,000 purpose, as of this writing.

SJ continues to be at Youngsters’ Well being with the hospital saying they aren’t able to decide presently how for much longer he might want to stay under their care.