Nearly a week after being hit by a car at a College of Wooster intersection, 11-year-old Ezra Swartzentruber “was going through all the emotions” of dealing with his serious accident, his mother, Joanna Swartzentruber, said Thursday.
Ezra is a patient at Akron Children’s Hospital.
“Now it’s hitting home” for him, she said, of the accident in which he was struck by a car on a Beall Avenue crosswalk following a Cornerstone Elementary School basketball game at the College of Wooster on Saturday evening, Feb. 3.
On Thursday, Ezra was saddened to learn about deafness in his right ear and the possibility of losing some hearing in his left ear, Swartzentruber said.
The hearing setback adds to the multiple severe injuries he already has faced − a fractured tibia on his right side, a left hip fracture, a fractured clavicle on his right side, a jaw fracture and a skull fracture top to bottom on his right side, she said.
“His body is broken,” she said.
Ezra, his name means helper, and he’s a trouper
Through it all, Ezra has tried to keep up his spirits, which were lifted Thursday by “all the hospital dogs around. He was very excited about that,” Swartzentruber said. “He is such a trouper,” even apologizing for getting upset about bad news.