A 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured at Carbon High School football practice on Wednesday is in stable condition after being life-flighted to Primary Children’s Hospital in Salt Lake City.
Chance Lee, a sophomore at CHS on the JV football team, was hit by two teammates and when he began to have trouble breathing, emergency services were called. Chance was taken to Castleview Hospital and had X-rays and blood work taken that came back negative.
However, after complaining about pain in his lower abdomen, Chance went in for CT scans. Doctors then discovered that he had severed his spleen and was bleeding out into his abdomen and took him in for emergency surgery.
After an hour and a half, Chance came out of surgery and was in recovery when again he began to have trouble breathing. Fluid was found in his chest, and doctors at Castleview decided Chance would be in better care at Primary Children’s in Salt Lake City. He was flown to SLC at about midnight on Wednesday night.
Chance was put in the Intensive Care Unit at Primary Children’s, where he was put on oxygen and had a tube put into his chest to drain the fluid. By 10 a.m. on Thursday, Chance was in stable condition. By Sunday, Chance had been taken off the oxygen and was breathing on his own, and also had the drain removed.
Carbon High has been very supportive over the past week, dedicating Friday night’s football game to him with his name on the field, as well as sending posters to his hospital room. Chance has begun to work on his pain management as well as his breathing and is scheduled to come home on Tuesday if no other complications occur. He has about a six-week recovery ahead of him.
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