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This is why lawn darts were taken off the market.
Injured child’s pig sells for $50,000 at Colorado county fair
News NEWS | August 14, 2020
Holly Jessen
for The Fence Post
Twelve-year-old Gage Adam wasn’t about to let a terrible accident this spring stop him from showing his pig at the Delta County Fair, held last weekend in Hotchkiss, Colo.
Gage had been recovering at Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo., for about two months following a June 2 accident in which a metal rod went 3 inches into his head, said Nate Adam, Gage’s dad. Although his doctors said he probably wouldn’t be able to go home until about Aug. 20, Gage didn’t like the sound of that. “Gage set the goal for himself, he was going to make it home in time for fair,” Nate said. “And he did.”
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THE BACKSTORY
When Gage was injured, he was playing in the backyard of his Crawford, Colo., home with his youngest brother, Thyane, Nate, their dad said. They found some little metal rods. “They were seeing who could throw the furthest,” he said.
When Gage walked to retrieve a rod, tragedy struck. One of the rods, apparently thrown straight up in the air, came down and went 3 inches into his head, Nate said. The area it went into controls motor skills on the left side.
Gage was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colo., where he had emergency surgery, and then transferred to Children’s Hospital. On his second night there he had a small stroke. “He lost peripheral vision on the left side of both eyes,” he said.
Thanks to help from back home, Nate and his wife Kim were able to stay the whole time with Gage at Children’s Hospital, which is about five hours from Crawford. Their other two boys, Dal and Thyane, stayed with their grandparents on both sides of the family. Members of the community stepped up to take care of the family’s cattle operation. “Everybody helped either irrigate or put up hay, we had people helping ride to take care of cows for us,” he said. “They’ve been raising money left and right to help us with all the bills. It’s been amazing, it really has.”
Gage’s recovery is going extremely well. After a lot of hard work in physical therapy, he can walk, and although he does still have left side weakness that’s continuing to improve. Before he left the hospital, doctors gave him an aptitude and IQ test. “He is at or above where he should be for a 12-year-old boy,” Nate said.
Right now Gage has to wear a helmet to protect his skull, which is missing a piece because of an emergency craniectomy, a surgery to relieve pressure on the brain. Next up, he goes back to Children’s Hospital to have surgery to have that fixed. Doctors said there was no reason to keep Gage at the hospital right up to the surgery, however, in fact it could end up being detrimental to his recovery. So they released him just in time for the fair.
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News NEWS | August 14, 2020
Holly Jessen
for The Fence Post
Twelve-year-old Gage Adam wasn’t about to let a terrible accident this spring stop him from showing his pig at the Delta County Fair, held last weekend in Hotchkiss, Colo.
Gage had been recovering at Children’s Hospital in Aurora, Colo., for about two months following a June 2 accident in which a metal rod went 3 inches into his head, said Nate Adam, Gage’s dad. Although his doctors said he probably wouldn’t be able to go home until about Aug. 20, Gage didn’t like the sound of that. “Gage set the goal for himself, he was going to make it home in time for fair,” Nate said. “And he did.”
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THE BACKSTORY
When Gage was injured, he was playing in the backyard of his Crawford, Colo., home with his youngest brother, Thyane, Nate, their dad said. They found some little metal rods. “They were seeing who could throw the furthest,” he said.
When Gage walked to retrieve a rod, tragedy struck. One of the rods, apparently thrown straight up in the air, came down and went 3 inches into his head, Nate said. The area it went into controls motor skills on the left side.
Gage was flown to St. Mary’s Medical Center in Grand Junction, Colo., where he had emergency surgery, and then transferred to Children’s Hospital. On his second night there he had a small stroke. “He lost peripheral vision on the left side of both eyes,” he said.
Thanks to help from back home, Nate and his wife Kim were able to stay the whole time with Gage at Children’s Hospital, which is about five hours from Crawford. Their other two boys, Dal and Thyane, stayed with their grandparents on both sides of the family. Members of the community stepped up to take care of the family’s cattle operation. “Everybody helped either irrigate or put up hay, we had people helping ride to take care of cows for us,” he said. “They’ve been raising money left and right to help us with all the bills. It’s been amazing, it really has.”
Gage’s recovery is going extremely well. After a lot of hard work in physical therapy, he can walk, and although he does still have left side weakness that’s continuing to improve. Before he left the hospital, doctors gave him an aptitude and IQ test. “He is at or above where he should be for a 12-year-old boy,” Nate said.
Right now Gage has to wear a helmet to protect his skull, which is missing a piece because of an emergency craniectomy, a surgery to relieve pressure on the brain. Next up, he goes back to Children’s Hospital to have surgery to have that fixed. Doctors said there was no reason to keep Gage at the hospital right up to the surgery, however, in fact it could end up being detrimental to his recovery. So they released him just in time for the fair.
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