Snowboarding Accident

For the last 8 years Jeff Neel (The Farm Director) has been taking kids on a snowboarding trip and each time is a trip this year was no exception. I got the pleasure of going for the first time and it was a privilege to see how Eric (this year's trip planner along with Becka Neel) worked get with the kids. Everyone had a great time, unfortunately the trip was cut short. I had to head back early the second day with Becka while the rest of the group stayed up at Keystone to board the rest of the day. While snowboarding one of or kids, Nathan, was injured. The following is quoted from Nathan's mom's facebook page.
"Nathan was doing some jumps in the park. He had already been doing well on the jumps and decided to do a little bit larger jump that was about 30 feet from the top of the jump to where he could land. Unfortunately he went off the jump off balance and landed a little ways down the landing on his back and hit his head. All-in-all he traveled about 40 feet in the air before impact. The impact knocked him unconscious even though he was wearing a helmet. They got paramedics on the scene very quickly and they determined he needed immediate help. He was taken down the mountain on a sled while a paramedic road with him and helped him breath. They decided to sedate him in the mountain ER and take him to Denver via flight for life. At the hospital he had a CAT scan where they were able to ascertain the entire damage. Altogether he broke ribs 1 through 5 on his back which caused a little bit of fluid to gather on his right lung. They will be keeping a close eye on this in case of pneumonia. He also broke his collar bone but that looks okay. He does have a brain injury but doesn't look like anything permanent. He also has some minor fractures on his vertebrae but nothing close to his spinal cord and absolutely no paralysis--he has already moved all of his limbs."
We are grateful that Nathan seems to be doing well, but would ask you to pray for him as he is continuing to recover.
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