Ohio News: Teen Dies 18 Days After Basketball Accident
Noah Lear was playing a game of basketball with his friends at Baptist Church in Bucyrus, Ohio, just like how he normally would. However, nobody saw it coming that a regular basketball game would result to the death of Lear's young life.
"When he went to dunk the ball, the whole thing—post, backboard and rim—came down on him," Lear's mother, Melissa Griffin, revealed as to how her son's leisurely time turned tragic on that fateful day of February 27.
Apparently, the incident did not knock down Lear totally, at least, not yet, as he was still able to call his mom and informed her of what had happened to him and told her to meet him at the hospital. Without a thorough idea as to what exactly happened to her son, Griffin just told her son not to worry about his teeth after he told her that the accident hurt his teeth. When Griffin arrived at the hospital, she found out that her son had not yet arrived.
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When her son finally arrived at the hospital, it was when Griffin realized the extent of his accident. Although he suffered a cardiac arrest twice at the hospital, he was in a stable condition, hence, he was moved to a larger children's hospital.
As Lear's sustained injuries were substantial, it called for the standard procedure of medically induced coma. He was eventually subjected to several types of surgeries and an MRI, which revealed that his brain was functioning normally.
However, things were not as promising as they seemed to be as the doctors eventually found out that the traumatic brain injury of Lear was that bad. He never woke up from coma as oxygen could no longer reach his brain. Furthermore, the part of his brain responsible for his vital functions was no longer performing its work.
Lear died after 18 days of being in comatose in the presence of family and friends.
