JACKSBORO, Texas – A teenage lady from Jacksboro is combating for her life after a gathering over the vacation break rapidly turned harmful.
17-year-old Madison Lewis is within the hospital after struggling extreme burns over 90 p.c of her physique.
“There’s nothing on the planet extra that I need and want than for my child lady to be okay and to reside a life. She’s 17 years outdated,” stated Ericca Hammond, Madison’s mom from her daughter’s room at Parkland Hospital.
Two weeks in the past, at first of vacation break, Madison was with associates, gathered round a burn barrel.
Hammond says a boy threw one thing into the fireplace.
“I believed it was a cup at first, however now I came upon that it was an precise pan stuffed with gasoline into the barrel, and so they say that it simply exploded and simply went in her route,” stated Hammond. “It was devastating. Utterly burned her complete physique.”
Lewis is a senior at Jacksboro Excessive College.
She has been unresponsive because the incident, with a number of surgical procedures over the vacation season.
“That is the primary yr since I have been a mother that I did not wrap one Christmas reward. Not one,” stated Hammond.
Madison’s mom has traveled forwards and backwards from Jacksboro to Dallas and obtained assist from the Ronald McDonald Home.
“Which is great. They’ve simply been the most effective to me and to my household. You understand, simply open arms and hugs and prayers and a lot compassion that it simply stuffed my coronary heart full of affection,” Hammond stated.
Hammond instructed us she is grateful for the help from her neighborhood and the medical doctors and nurses at Parkland.
Her solely focus now could be to hope that her daughter exhibits motion quickly.
“She’s imagined to graduate in Might and go to school in August, however she has a lot extra to do out right here. That is why. I imply, she’s a warrior. She is a fighter,” stated Hammond. “That is what we want probably the most proper now could be prayers and for her therapeutic and her poor physique.”
Lewis was taken off of her ache remedy immediately to see if she might grow to be responsive.
FOX 4 is instructed Madison had a fourth profitable surgical procedure on Tuesday and that many extra are to return.
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