The baseball star suffered brain damage after a teammate hit him with a bat The victim of the training accident was trainer Jeremy Medina.
A Georgia baseball star has been diagnosed with brain damage after a teammate hit him in the head with a bat during practice in late November. Gainesville High School shortstop and catcher Jeremy Medina, 18, remains hospitalized in a coma after being hit in the head on Nov. 20. His family confirmed this week that he will be taken off life support and become an organ donor.
The baseball prospect won a college scholarship Concussion manager Jamie Green told local media that Medina was leaning against the netting in the locker room when a teammate hit the ball. As the player continued to swing, Jeremy drove to the net and hit a shot to the head. Green confirms. aquot;There are no words, no deceptions, no ideas.” The coach described Medina’s tragedy to shocked teammates in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, and a counselor was sent to comfort shocked students. Medina and his family said he was already committed to play college baseball before the accident.
The community has supported the teenager since the tragedy, with residents putting up signs asking people to “pray for Jeremy”. Because his prognosis was bad. According to his father, David, Medina was a devout Christian who hoped to become a youth minister while pursuing his baseball dreams. Our strength, my family’s strength and my strength, have been rooted from day one in the awesome power of Jesus Christ. Said Medina and his father.
Some people don’t know my son, they don’t know my family, they are standing together to support us in prayer at this time. Doctors said Medina did not survive the blow that knocked him unconscious. The severe headache initially caused him to lose consciousness, and as he lost consciousness, he lost the ability to maintain an airway.
Dr. Michael Cormican, chief of surgical intensive care at Northeast Georgia Medical Center.
