A freak accident has left a little elm family in disbelief after their 13-year-old son shattered his spine in a pool while running away from a wasp.
Semyon Williams Jr., 13, underwent surgery at Children's Health in Dallas after diving into the shallow end of a community pool in Frisco.A freak accident at a community pool in Frisco has a family from Lil Elm in disbelief after their 13-year-old's life changed in an instant.
"He turns him over and that's when he's asking him, 'Are you playing?' and SJ's like, he can speak, but he's like, 'I can't feel anything.' You know, he's freaking out. He's like, ''Help me! I can't feel, I can't feel my arms, my legs, help me, call my mom," described Anya Camper, Williams' mother.LocalThe family said a good Samaritan, a woman sitting by the pool, tried to comfort the teen while others called 911.
"You hear about things like this, you see things like this, you never expect it to be your story until it is. When it comes to your front door it shakes you, that's exactly what it’s done for us," said Anya. "He fractured two vertebrae the 4th and the 5th cervical vertebrae and he fractured parts that are in front and behind the spinal cord, spinal canal which contains the spinal cord," described Braga.
"We are people of faith and we have an army of people praying for him," said Anya. “We’re believing that anything a miracle will happen.
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