Posted on 08/16/2022 9:33:02 AM PDT by Red Badger
At the beginning of a dream trip to the Little League World Series, a Utah team from Santa Clara is suddenly dealing with a nightmare.
Easton Oliverson, a 12-year-old player on the Snow Canyon Little League baseball team, was flown to a Pennsylvania hospital for emergency surgery after falling off the top bunk of a bed overnight and suffering a severe head injury.
“He went through pretty traumatic surgery to get to where he’s at, but the doctors are all really positive,” said Spencer Beck, Oliverson’s uncle. “All of the steps moving forward have been good so far.”
Beck and the rest of Oliverson’s family have been waiting and hoping for good news since they first learned of the accident about 2:30 a.m. on Monday.
“Just a really simple thing — something that we’ve all probably done is fall off the bed,” Beck said. “But he hit his pretty hard, it sounds like.”
Beck said one of Oliverson’s teammates was awoken by his fall and promptly sought help.
“Had that other player not been wakened by him falling, he may not have made it,” Beck said.
Oliverson was taken to a children’s hospital where he underwent surgery. He is still asleep and recovering in the intensive care unit. Beck said doctors are waiting for the swelling in his brain to go down.
Beck said the last he heard, the rest of the team was in shock, just like everyone else. He added the team still held practice because “I’m sure that’s what Easton would want.”
“I know that they’ll have him at the forefront of their thoughts and hearts,” Beck said.
At present, there are no plans to start a specific fundraising campaign for Oliverson, Beck said. Those closest to him are waiting to see how his recovery goes first.
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Bunk beds are really not a good idea.
Wonder what really happened
No reason to disbelieve the story. Probably horsing around.......................
We had bunk beds as a kid.
I always took the top bunk as my brother wet the bed.................😜
This happened to me, 11 years old at Scout camp. No injuries but some serious ribbing for months.
I did stuff that should have killed me a hundred times.........................
Yes, if you are not used to bunk beds upper, you could roll out during the night....................
He's lucky it wasn't me, because I have always been a very heavy sleeper.😋
Glad to hear that the surgery was successful, and that the prognosis is positive.
I did stuff that would have ............... put me in jail more than once. But we could get away with youthful indiscretions then...
As a kid, mine had a guard-rail on it, except where you entered with the ladder.
My older brother forced me to switch when I wet the bed.
Problem solved.
I love the Little League World Series. I was watching the regionals this year and saw the scariest, most heart warming thing ever on a baseball diamond.
We had Bunk beds when I was young. Rolled off the top and broke my collar bone, but slept through it. My sister heard me moaning and my parents woke me, called a cab and took me to ER.
However, the top bunk should always have some kind of railing like pictured below. If these bunks didn't have that, then there is no excuse for that.
That’s exactly what I was going to post!
That movie is great.
That’s hope for the future right there.
Attended a men’s retreat some years ago at what was a Young Life camp near Asheville, NC. The cabins had three-level bunks and one of the attendees (was in his 60s) fell from the very top bunk, sustained massive head injuries and ultimately died as a result. Was a very tragic accident at what otherwise was a great retreat.
Maybe horsing around, but probably not at 2:30 am when you are there for the Little League World Series. He probably rolled over and down he went.
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