May 16,2012 at 6:34 PM CST
BROOKFIELD — Some doctors said 13-year-old Kerwin Hackett from Brookfield would never walk and talk again after a ski accident last December. Now, the boy is determine to play his favorite sport – baseball, once again.
It was a trip to Hackett’s mother’s native country of Korea that...more changed Kerwin Hackett’s life. Kerwin says he doesn’t remember how a ski accident left him unconscious for over a month.
Doctors said he’d never walk or talk again, after they discovered a severe diffuse axonal brain injury, along with a hemorrhage on Kerwin’s brain stem.
Kerwin woke up on February 1st, and days later, was learning how to walk and talk with the help of physical therapy. Playing baseball again was a motivator for Kerwin. “I asked my parents, ‘hey guys, can I play the game?’ And they’re like, ‘uh, no. You can’t really see the ball right,’” Kerwin said.
Kerwin says he was seeing double. Doctors performed eye surgery in Korea, and he’s due for one more round of
