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STRAWBERRY RESERVOIR —p Reed Robinson loved being around his horses at his home in Evanston, Wyo. In May 2009, he was out feeding those horses when tragedy struck.
"I got kicked in the head by a horse," Reed said.
"We were actually going out to check on him, and we saw him lying on the ground," his mom, Carrie Robinson, recalls. "We drove him to the hospital ourselves, and they immediately called Primary Children's (Medical Center) Life Flight."
Today, the now 10-year-old Reed shows no signs of what happened.
"Dr. Walker, his neurosurgeon … gave us a very grim diagnosis that (Reed) had bleeding on both the inside and the outside of his brain," explained Carrie Robinson, Reed's mom. "They removed the whole left side of his skull to make room for swelling and put him in ICU."
Reed says he doesn't remember much of what happened after the horse kicked him, but his mother does.
"Dr. Walker was about to tell us that there was pretty much no hope," Carrie said.
That's when the miracle happened. Just nine days after his doctor made that comment, Reed and his family left the hospital and went home.
Reed made what his doctor calls a "miraculous" and full recovery. He had no permanent brain damage and returned home as a normal, active country boy — and not a bit afraid of horses.
"I'm not scared of ‘em anymore," Reed said.
During a recent Smith's grocery stores' auction for Primary Children's Medical Center, four corporations — Smith's, Hostess, Eagle Eye Produce and Empire Foods — paid $16,000 to go fishing with the miracle kid from Evanston this past weekend.
Reed turned out to be the star fisherman of the day, catching more fish than anyone on the boat.
After all that they've been through, Carrie said she was just glad to be there fishing with her son.
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