In response to a recent Courier-Post article about the Level 1 Trauma Center’s Traumatic Injury Prevention Program, Dolores Andrew of Turnersville wrote in to discuss the importance of the program and the impact it could have had on her 21-year-old-son, who passed away in March.
I am offering my heartfelt praise for Cooper University Hospital’s trauma demonstration to area high school students. Many high school- and college-age teenagers and young adults feel they are immortal and engage in risky behaviors without realizing the consequences.
I am aware of this firsthand because on March 19 my 21-year-old son was one of those young adults. Allegedly, he climbed onto a car in motion in a parking lot being driven by a friend. It is unknown whether drugs or alcohol were involved.
He was taken by helicopter to Cooper Trauma. The staff at Cooper worked heroically to save him. The next day he was declared brain dead.
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