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Texas teen's spinal cord severed after jumping into pool to escape wasp
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SJ Williams, 13, is fighting for his recovery after severing his spinal cord. Williams was running from a wasp when he went head-first into the shallow end of a pool.
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"He said all he remembers after the jump, is floating face down in the pool thinking that his arm was floating next to him (because he couldn’t feel it)," his family wrote in a description of the GoFundMe page titled, "Support SJ's Journey to Recovery." "He said he thought he was going to drown because he couldn’t move, so he was just swallowing water. His friends said they thought he was just floating and playing at first."
If it were not for one of SJ's friends who realized he was not playing around, SJ might not be alive today, his family noted.
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