Levi Wright, the 3-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright and mother Kallie Wright, who was hospitalized in important situation since he drove his toy tractor right into a Utah river on Might 21, has died.
Levi died on Sunday, June 2, after he was faraway from life help, household good friend Mindy Sue Clark confirms to PEOPLE. “Levi was the best possible little boy. It may be powerful navigating life with out him,” Clark says.
“I can’t even start to elucidate how onerous the final two weeks have been. From the second my cellphone rang the night time of his accident, to final night time receiving the message that he needed to go,” Clark wrote in a separate social media publish on Monday, June 3.
“I don’t need to give attention to the unhealthy or unhappy, despite the fact that it looks like somebody ripped my coronary heart out and squeezed it proper in entrance of me. I need to give attention to the various miracles all of us acquired to bear witness to in these 12 days,” she wrote. “Tons of of 1000’s, if not tens of millions, of individuals surrounded our greatest little buddy, lifted him up in prayer, and threw their loving arms round Levi and his household.”
Clark went on to recollect Levi as “probably the most excellent three yr previous there ever was.”
“He introduced so many individuals collectively. In a world so darkish, we acquired to see gentle by the hands of a kid. He’s the whole lot his mother and pa might’ve needed him to be,” she added in that publish. “I’m so grateful for on a regular basis I acquired to be his ‘aunt Mindy.’ That may be a blessing I’ll by no means be capable to high. I’m additionally so grateful my final go to to Utah, despite the fact that I used to be so drained, that I stayed awake slightly longer to do s’mores with the children. It’s all that they had talked about all day that day.”
Kallie Wright and Spencer Wright with their son Levi.
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Kallie beforehand shared an replace on June 2 that the household can be “letting him [Levi] go.”
“After a number of sleepless nights, numerous analysis, a number of conversations with the world’s finest neurologists & tens of millions of prayers we’re right here within the face of our greatest worry,” she wrote.
“Levi confirmed us simply sufficient to purchase us time for all of this,” she continued. “We prayed these issues have been him defying odds & proving to us that he needed to remain right here however we see now he needed to present us time to seek out peace with letting him go. I instructed you my child was considerate & thoughtful, I really imagine he did that for us.”
As for the impression Levi’s story has had on these all over the world, she added, “Throughout this time he introduced out humanity throughout the nation, he dropped so many to their knees & reminded them what really issues on this world. It form of offers that T-rex power a complete new which means, would not it?”
“We’ll miss him each second of day-after-day down right here however really feel with out unwavering doubt that is the most effective factor we are able to do for him!” she added. “We love you child beans and I can not wait until the day you may ‘work the bottom’ with me once more!”
Levi Wright with mom Kallie Wright.
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Kallie’s announcement got here days after she posted on Thursday, Might 30, that Levi was again underneath sedation after “he didn’t deal with” being weaned off it.
“It was heartbreaking to look at & he’s now closely sedated till the following step,” she wrote. “The MRI is tomorrow. It might present a distinction from the primary, it might not. We’re checking & double checking all we are able to!”
“Once more, Levi is our #1 precedence in all of this,” she added. “We’re having a number of conversations a day with medical doctors, rehabs, neurologists and many others to assist us higher serve him!”
In keeping with a Might 21 assertion from the Beaver County Sheriff’s Workplace, authorities responded to a name in regards to the incident involving the 3-year-old, later recognized as Levi. The sheriff’s workplace mentioned that the boy had pushed his toy tractor within the river.
“Life saving measures have been administered on scene,” the sheriff’s workplace assertion learn, noting that Levi was transported to Beaver Valley Hospital and later airlifted to Main Kids’s Hospital in Salt Lake Metropolis.
On Might 26, Kallie wrote in a Fb publish that the household was “taking it daily” after they disclosed that they had been “shattered” by Levi’s MRI outcomes.
“That is an expertise, I pray deep in my soul you by no means must understand how I’m starting to,” Kallie, a mother of three, wrote then. “This can be a curler coaster that you simply go on unwillingly & blindfolded, you have no idea what’s coming subsequent. “You simply get to attend & trip it out. We’re taking it daily.”
“No two mind accidents are alike, even when the accident is comparable. No two brains get better or do not get better the identical. There’s a lot Medical Professionals do not know, however what they do let you know relies off official medical literature & historical past,” Kallie wrote.
She additionally expressed gratitude to the medical workers amid the household’s ordeal, including: “Whether or not that’s time to see if God gives a miracle to us or whether or not it is time for us to analysis, study and course of this all with a purpose to take advantage of knowledgeable selections. Each determination that Levi’s Dad and I’ll make will likely be made based mostly on what, we the 2 individuals who know him finest imagine he would need. In all this, he comes first.”