Bloomington High School North, Nikean, 2011, Page 154

Description:	Coming Full CircleA broken boat, cfruriken people and a family that wanted to help was everythingneeded to lead to a chaotic incident. After spotting a nonfunctional boat on LakeMonroe, Senior Tanner Phelps, at the age of 5, and his grandpa decided to go andassist them. Though they thought they were doing an honorable deed, it turned outto have a horrendous outcome.We didnt know the other people were drunk, Phelps said. They put a towinghook on wrong and it came back and hit me in die eye.Phelps was immediately sent to the hospital with a serious injury. Unfortunatelythere were no doctors at Blooming Hospital that could treat Phelps, so he was sentto Indianapolis Methodist Hospital.I spent 4 days there and they started surgery right away, Phelps said. Doctorsduring surgery inserted a sphere. They used that to attach any of the remainingmuscles, veins, nerves that worked and attached them to the sphere.After gaining movement with his fake eye, Phelps began physical therapy andeye exercises to help roll it, close it, etc. Despite the many eye strengtheningappointments, it affected him in a positive way as well.it made me pick the sport I wanted to play and what I want to do. Phelps said. Itmade me realize that soccer was always my true sport.Story by Catherine KagemannA basketball game on January 30 turned intoa unique injury for junior Rob McCoy.Nikean: Exacdy what happened to your leg?McCoy: I was playing in a game againstSouth and some guy kneed me in the rightthigh. It caused my leg to bruise. The bloodstayed and calcified, then a new bone startedto form in the muscle tissue. Its calledmyositis ossificans.Nikean: Is this affecting you in any way?McCoy: Im out of all sports for the next 2months.Nikean: Are the doctors doing anything tofix it or is it just sometiiing that has to healon its own?McCoy: They have to graft it. It breaks thebone down. Right now its at a lump.Q&A by Whitney TaylorNo.,BonosAbout ,.ItAN aIts All HeartFamily members were called in, entering two by two to give words of support beforethe procedure. He was feeling short, dull chest pain, but that was common. One of themain valves in his heart, the aortic valve, was too small and leaking badly. SophomoreMichael Miller had to have a four hour long open heart surgery on June 30, 2008.I was sedated with morohine, Miller said. I felt like I wasnt there. I felt weird.After the surgery, Miller was put on blood thinners to make sure the blood didntclot and he was put on bed rest for a month, because the doctors didnt want him toover exhaust himself. After bed rest Miller had to get back on a normal schedule. Now,Miller is unable to do contact sports because of his surgeryAt first, I was questioning why me? Miller said, but then after days, I accepted it.Story By Egla Rrashinac
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