The family of an Adelaide year seven student say their son is on the way to a “miracle” recovery from a serious javelin accident at school. Javale Morato,13, was struck during a school training session at St Albans Reserve in Clearview in September . He was rushed to hospital with a severe traumatic brain injury that required a high-risk operation on his brain.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today But he is now showing positive signs of making a recovery, despite his family initially being told to “expect the worst”. The day of Javale’s accident, his mother Teresa had just arrived to pick him up and saw her son throw a javelin just before she turned around to unbuckle her daughter’s seatbelt. When she looked out to the field again, a group of students had surrounded someone on the ground, but she could not see Javale in the crowd.
“I couldn’t find him anywhere, so my heart begins to race,” she told The Southern Cross Catholic publication. “That’s when I received a call on my phone and it was from the school, so I knew.” Emergency services put a tarpaulin around Javale and Teresa’s heart sank as she began to fear her son might not make it.
“I kept telling them to move away from my son,” she said. She described Javale’s face as “all black” from a lack of oxygen when his body was turned over and paramedics began CPR. She shouted to Javale, “don’t go, you come back, you come back”.
A doctor managed to intubate Javale, giving T.