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Article by Jay Heater/Idaho State Journal
It long has been a movie staple, the family gathered around the hospital bed, staring at an injured loved one, hoping to see movement of any kind.
The movement of a toe, the shifting of a leg.
For Tami Withers, it wasn’t some fantasy. She lived it last October at a hospital in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Withers kept watch night after night as her son, Idaho State wide receiver Andrew Benavides, slept motionless a few feet away. Benavides had suffered a spinal injury in the Bengals’ Oct. 24 game against Northern Arizona and the prognosis was not good.
Benavides ad been told by doctors that he might never walk again, and he certainly would never play football again.
Then, he moved.
Read More: http://www.journalnet.com/sports/local/article_04ba6556-a69e-11df-b6fa-001cc4c002e0.html
It long has been a movie staple, the family gathered around the hospital bed, staring at an injured loved one, hoping to see movement of any kind.
The movement of a toe, the shifting of a leg.
For Tami Withers, it wasn’t some fantasy. She lived it last October at a hospital in Flagstaff, Ariz.
Withers kept watch night after night as her son, Idaho State wide receiver Andrew Benavides, slept motionless a few feet away. Benavides had suffered a spinal injury in the Bengals’ Oct. 24 game against Northern Arizona and the prognosis was not good.
Benavides ad been told by doctors that he might never walk again, and he certainly would never play football again.
Then, he moved.
Read More: http://www.journalnet.com/sports/local/article_04ba6556-a69e-11df-b6fa-001cc4c002e0.html
