POST FALLS — Two days after a life-threatening motorcycle crash left 11-year-old Tatum Newbauer in the intensive care unit with several broken bones, concussed and wrapped in casts, the “sassy stinker pants” was home cracking jokes.
“He likes to joke and have a good time, and he has been just quite the little sassy stinker pants,” Tatum’s mom, Layne Chappell, said in a phone interview from her home in Post Falls. “He does have his moments where he’s emotional and with this concussion, it’s also part of that. It’s a whole roller coaster ride.”
Through the brain trauma, multiple broken bones in his face and skull, broken teeth, a broken arm and broken foot, Tatum’s first thought when his mother first saw him in the emergency room was to reassure her…