Logan's Story
Like so many sick and injured children we see in the ER, Logan Quatember was in urgent need of lifesaving care when he arrived at Children’s Hospital last February. The 11-year-old was a passenger in a near-fatal car crash. He was pinned in the vehicle and had to be removed with the Jaws of Life.
Logan was badly injured, suffering two traumatic brain injuries. With his anxious parents at his bedside, he lay in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, intubated for nine days and in a coma for 12 excruciating days. But our amazing medical staff never once gave up on Logan. They did everything in their power to help him recover.
Thanks to that incredible care Logan received in the ER and the PICU – care YOU helped make possible with your support – Logan started breathing on his own. Soon he was able to blink and make small hand signals. Twenty-four days after the accident, Logan communicated his first words to his family by printing “Love Mom”.
As you can imagine it was an exciting and emotional moment, but Logan still had a long way to go. Once again, the staff at Children’s Hospital was there by his side, helping him relearn how to swallow food, sit without support, and eventually take his first steps and speak his first words.
Every person who worked on Logan had YOUR help. Your support for Children’s Hospital funds vital equipment and research that enables us to offer the latest treatments to kids in urgent need. You helped give Logan the chance to not only survive but to enjoy a full and active childhood again.
Five weeks after the collision, Logan went home with his grateful family, where he continued with speech, physio and occupational therapy to get back to the activities he loves. He even made it back to classes before school ended last summer.
Logan has shown a hopeful spirit through it all. His perseverance and enduring smile are an inspiration to his family, friends and caregivers at Children’s Hospital.
“They said I kept fighting,” Logan says. “They said I stayed strong.”