Spencer Wright, a famous rodeo cowboy, lost his young son, Levi Wright.
A three-year-old boy has died after a near-drowning accident caused a traumatic brain injury.
Spencer Wright, a famous rodeo cowboy, lost his young son, Levi Wright.
Levi was taken to a Salt Lake City hospital after accidentally driving his tractor into a river near his family’s home. About a mile downstream, local police found Levi unconscious.
After being told he was brain-dead and unlikely to live, the boy began to show signs of improvement.
“LEVI AWAKENS!” We don’t know much, but the doctor told me it’s okay to be excited about it, and I AM! “My baby is really hard!” his mother Kallie Wright wrote on Facebook.
The MRI results the next day “was not good”, which was a shame.
“We are broken, but they are just pictures that show a certain way of life. “What Levi does in the next few days will really tell us everything,” Kallie said.
Levi’s family and friends kept asking for prayers as he battled in the hospital.
On June 2, Kallie told me the terrible news.
“After many sleepless nights, lots of research, many conversations with the best neurologists in the world, and millions of prayers, here we are facing our greatest fear,” she wrote. “Levi showed us just enough to buy us some time. He did those things to show us that he wanted to stay here, even when the odds were against him. Now we know he just wanted to give us time to let him go.
After many tests, scans, and consultations, Levi Wright’s family turned off his life support.
The next day, Mindy Sue Clark, a family friend, posted on Facebook that Levi had died.
“The last two weeks have been so hard I can’t even describe them. The phone rang the night of his accident and I got a message that he had to leave last night. That’s why I don’t want to think about the bad or the sad. It hurts like someone ripped my heart out and crushed it right in front of me. What I want to talk about is all the miracles we saw during those 12 days.
“The most amazing three-year-old ever.” It was so perfect we couldn’t keep it down. This little boy has done a lot in the last 12 days. He met a lot of people. The child brought light to a very dark world. His parents couldn’t have asked for a better child.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the Wright family during this very difficult time.