I just got to read this and I will keep him and his family in my thoughts.

Kids are very resilent when it comes to these kind of things as compared to adults.

This is a somewhat long story, but when my son was 5, he was visiting his mom when her and her bf at the time were cutting the tops off of large pine trees. For reasons she still can't explain to me, she let him be out there next to them watching. Needless to say, one top the cut that was about the size of an average Chrsitmas tree fell straight up and down and landing directly on his head. Had that hit you or I it would have more then likely killed us.

THANKFULLY she didn't call and wait on an ambulance and rushed him to the ER. Even more thankfully, the Neuro surgeon happened to be in the ER visiting someone. He had a severe subdural hematoma ( the same injury that killed Sonny Bono ), and the Neuro surgeon rushed him right to sugery. The made an insicion along his hairline from the top of his head to below the back of his ear, removed part of his skull and took out the hematoma. They closed the skull with titanium. We were told that the damage could be severe and he may have serious complications for the rest of his life and to prepare ourselves.

To shorten the story, in less the 48 hours he was wide awake, eating breakfast and playing video games and acted like nothing happened. He could remember everything up to getting hit. The doctors were truly amazed! He is now 11, and has shown NO effects from this. In fact, he is very advanced for his age and doing 9th grade school work!

Despite how bad it seems, like I said, kids are resilent, and they can recover very well. I too believe in the power of prayer and positive thoughts and I will continue to keep him in mind and ask my firends do the same.