An Athletics athlete of the Illinois high school suffered an unimaginable injury while heated for the triple jump in a meeting last month.
Dylan Westcott, Rock Falls High School, broke his neck in a strange accident that left him paralyzed in the chest down. The 18 -year -old has been rehabilitating Shirley Ryan Skitylab and has been able to sit in a wheelchair since approximately a week after the catastrophe on March 15.
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An athletic athlete of the high school was paralyzed after a strange accident. (Pak Gazette)
The chief coach of the Rock Falls High School, Eric Bontz, shared the horrible details in an interview with KWQC-TV.
“He was warming up in the triple jump, just passing through the steps, and while he passed through the sand, he stumbled upon his own feet or on the sand, and stumbled, and was running while he was stumbling, and only fell head on the wall,” Bontz said.
Wescott went through 12 hours of surgery immediately after the accident, according to the Daily Gazette. He had two cages inserted to stabilize his neck with a vertebra was replaced by a titanium plate.
The basketball player of the High School Salta to the action to save the life of the opponent after the heartbreaking collapse on the court
“You go from being a normal and happy family with, everyone talks about future plans and graduation, graduates, it was only accepted to study to be a veterinary technician after high school, and then see it in a wheelchair, not being able to do many of the things it used to do,” Westcott’s aunt, Kim Wescott Kilday, the station said. “It really hurts.”
A general look at the triple jump. (IMAGN)
Wescott’s family and coach have praised their resistance.
A Gofundme has raised more than $ 22,000 to help with medical expenses.
