A promising fighter of the high school stayed with 'I don't feel with his shoulders down' after suffering a broken neck during the state championship last week in Georgia.
The last year student of Jefferson High School, Dominic Haines, 17, currently cannot eat or drink after suffering the gloomy injury during his quarterfinal match in Macon.
He was described as a 'monster … an accident of one in a million', and was taken on a stretcher to the hospital, where he is still receiving treatment while feeling “desperate, angry and scared.”
The teenager has been in “unbearable pain” and will undergo a second surgery on Thursday “to merge the vertebrae of the back since the muscles and ligaments were completely torn,” his father revealed.
'Heartbreaking', Zach Haines wrote earlier this week. “I hate to see my son with so much pain … please pray for our son.”
Zach Haines has been publishing Regular Social Network Updates In the condition of your child, while almost $ 70,000 have collected through a Gofundme page prepared to support him in his 'difficult path'.
A high school fighter was partially paralyzed after suffering a broken neck
Dominic Haines (R) was “without feeling with his shoulders down,” said his father (c)
The injury occurred after what was described as a 'monster … an accident of one in a million'
“If this had not happened, I think he would have achieved that goal of being the state champion,” said coach Kyle Baird.
Instead, doctors had to “put a cage around their spinal cord” and give a breathing tube to the 17 -year -old. Then, on Wednesday night, Haines SR revealed that his son had suffered a setback and will now require that a feeding tube be inserted through his nose.
'Dominic went and made X -rays while ate and drank a variety of things. They discovered that when swallowing, things don't work as they should be, 'he wrote on Facebook.
'So when discovering that, they cut all the food and drinks. Which is devastating for him. He had not been able to eat anything but Buddine and jelly, but he was enjoying that he brought him back different types of juices, smoothies and powers for him to drink. A step forward and two steps back in that.
'Tomorrow has its second surgery at 7:30 am and is ready to end that. He knows that he will have a lot of pain, but he understands that it is the next step in the process.
He will stay with a scar, around three inches long, and “he will probably lose about 25 percent of his range of movement in his neck.”
Earlier this week, meanwhile, Zach Haines detailed the “unbearable pain” that his son was trying to sleep using a neck clamp and an oxygen mask.
He also opened his son's roller coaster during the past week as he tried to recover the sensation throughout his body.
“Dominic's shoulders, back above and buttocks are showing the greatest improvement and have the greatest strength,” he wrote on Tuesday.
“His feeling is the same on his legs, but he feels in the middle of his stomach and approximately 3/4 by the arm.”