“They ran down to help and they kept him from getting out of the water. If I was there, as a parent I would have wanted to drag him up onto the shore.”
“The doctors said a lot of times when people get this injury they die on sight because they stop breathing. With all the pieces (of vertebrae) floating around in there, there still would have been a very good chance that if he hadn't stopped breathing he could have certainly been paralyzed.”
“We had people up here praying for us, at our church and at our school and I kept saying I pray that I don't make a bad decision that affects my kid for the rest of his life.”
“There's this nurse standing over Nathanial's bed and she was crying. (Amy) had been keeping track for two days and she kept saying I knew that he would end up here.”
“He was in class the first day with his collar on. That was the miracle part for me, three weeks and two days after his surgery he was sitting in class at VCS.”
