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ST. GEORGE — Crue "Tuff" Cash arrived home last Thursday after a nearly two-month-long hospital stay. The 4-year-old was welcomed back by police officers, firefighters and smiling Southern Utahns holding vibrant signs.
Cash was hit by a car in early April and transported to three hospitals within the first few days. In Las Vegas, medical staff did not expect the boy to survive, Cash's grandmother Shelley Nakaoka told St. George News in April.
"Pretty much the first words out of their mouth was, 'He's not gonna make it,'" she recalled. "'His chest and lung area, (and his) heart are just crushed.'"
He was transported to Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City with an estimated 10% chance of surviving the trip, Nakaoka said.
