The heartbroken wife of rodeo star Spencer Wright sent a desperate message to fans after her son Levi nearly drowned in an accident with a toy tractor.
Levi, 3, has spent more than a week clinging to life after doctors feared he had suffered brain death when he drove his toy tractor into a fast-flowing river in Utah.
In an update on Thursday, his mother Kallie took to Facebook to dispel fan theories about her son’s recovery, saying: “This has consumed us, please don’t for a second think we haven’t fully done our homework ‘It’s been non-stop!’
The family previously said they were taking the recovery “step by step”, with Levi undergoing several MRIs and scans since the tragic accident.
Kallie Wright took to Facebook “to vent” and told fans to “please, not even for a second, think we haven’t completely done our homework” about her recovery.
Levi escaped from his family on the toy tractor (pictured) and his mother reportedly dove into the river to save him after he disappeared under the currents.
The tragic accident occurred on May 21 when Kallie was outside watching Levi play in his trailer. She briefly returned to her house to check on her nine-month-old son.
When he returned moments later, Levi was nowhere to be found and he frantically dove into the raging Beaver County River to search for his son in the torrent.
Kallie called lifeguards and they found Levi in the creek about a mile downstream. He was airlifted to Salt Lake City Primary Children’s Hospital.
The Wright couple prepared for the worst, saying they planned to “stop care and keep him close until his last breath on earth” after doctors said he was unlikely to survive.
But two days later a miracle occurred when Levi woke up from his coma on Thursday night.
In her Facebook update, Kallie said she felt the need to tell fans about Levi’s recovery, mainly to “get things off my chest.”
Spencer Wright’s son, Levi, has been in critical condition for more than a week after driving his tractor into Beaver River near his home in the southwestern Utah town of Milford.
Kallie shared an update on her son’s recovery and told fans to stop chiming in with “non-stop” advice about his recovery.
“I’m going to address one thing that has been continually mentioned and that is Hyberbaric Chamber therapy for brain injuries,” he wrote.
‘1. Hyperbaric chamber therapy is not an option if a child is on a ventilator like Levi. You first have to be medically stable enough to have that option. He is not medically stable enough to leave this place.
‘2. If you cannot breathe on your own (control your airway), a tracheostomy would be needed, which is a device that passes through a man-made hole in the throat with a tube to the lungs. Now think about that!
‘On top of that, you will need a nasogastric tube (a feeding tube through the nose) and, in the long term, potentially a g-tube which will require surgery and another man-made hole in the side.
‘3. Spencer and I have spent the last week exploring these and other therapies and what we are finding and feeling is that, for our situation, those therapies cannot get Levi to where he would be happy if they even became an option.
‘HIS happiness comes before ours, period.’
The mother concluded that while many people have expressed their opinion about what they should do, ‘please don’t think for a second that we haven’t done our homework completely, it’s been non-stop!’
In another update from the day before, he said doctors tried to “wean us off sedation but (Levi) didn’t handle it well.”
The family previously said they feared the worst as Levi was left nearly brain dead from the tragic accident.
The wife of rodeo star Spencer Wright has said they are hopeful about their three-year-old son’s recovery from a brain injury after he was submerged in a fast-flowing river.
Photos on social media show Kallie cradling her son as they both lay in their hospital bed with their father nearby.
Kallie has shared several updates about her son’s recovery, writing on Sunday, “This is an experience, I pray from the bottom of my soul that you never have to know how I’m starting to do it.”
‘This is a roller coaster on which you get on accidentally and blindfolded, without knowing what comes next. You just have to wait and endure. “We are taking it day by day.”
She shared the type of brain injury her son could suffer and the unknowns that await him.
‘The term ‘Brain Damage’ is very broad, there are ranges and different severities. No two brain injuries are the same, even if the accident is similar. No two brains recover or do not recover the same.
“There are a lot of things that medical professionals don’t know, but what they do say is based on legitimate medical literature and history.”
Spencer has also spoken out to encourage fans to donate money for a boy his own age who is being treated for sepsis caused by meningitis in the room next to Levi.
Three-year-old Taysen Baum has suffered blood clots, strokes and a brain injury caused by the infection. Her parents, like Levi’s, pray for a miracle so that her son survives.