For boy wounded at Red Lake and family, lives forever changed

[NVMojo]

BEMIDJI, Minn. - Steven Cobenais grips his mother's hand and squirms as a hospital nurse pokes him with a needle, searching for a vein that will take an IV. The teenager grimaces, squeezing his good eye shut.
Steven's mother looks worried: A dizzy spell sent the boy to the hospital the night before and a mysterious rash has spread over his body. His father shakes his head helplessly as siblings gather around the bed - a familiar scene since Steven was injured in a school shooting on the Red Lake Band of Chippewa's reservation a year ago.
A little later, Steven's father rushes from the room calling for help - Steven is having a seizure. As hospital staff swarm the 16-year-old, his mother, LeeAnn Thunder, cries softly. "I can't stand to see him go through those," she says.
And yet, this has become the family's life since last March 21, when a bullet from the gun of a fellow student destroyed his left eye and tunneled into his brain: Medications twice a day, regular hospital visits, the fear of another seizure at any moment.
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http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/14123980.htm

[cleofus1]

1. well

that was really depressing...i read the whole article and now i think i'll go jump off the roof...

[NVMojo]

2. don't do that! support them with your thoughts, prayers or whatever

you can do!

[cleofus1]

3. ok

you talked me out of it...