October 19 – November 3
NISD NEWS 2011
good for us up front.” “It’s been fun to be around everyone,” Cook said. “It will be fun to play one more time,” Stegall said.”
though,” Brown Sr. said. “He remembers other things. That’s what I was worried about because with head injuries you never know what to expect and with the swelling, brain damage can occur really quickly.”
Nacogdoches, which only won seven games last season, enters tonight’s finale with a 17-20 overall mark and a 58 record in District 14-4A.
Gary has been speaking with people and, even just a few hours after his surgery on Tuesday, was up and walking around, his father said.
Wednesday October 26, 2011
Second sur ger y successful for NH S teen Child improving after accident
BY ERIN MCKEON emckeon@dailysentinel.com Gary Brown, a 16-year-old Nacogdoches High School junior who was hit by a pickup late Friday, had a second brain surgery on Tuesday, his father Gary Brown, Sr. said. This second surgery has been a good one, though, he said. “The first surgery was to relieve the swelling in his brain from the head injury, and they took a piece of his skull off to help until the swelling went down,” Brown Sr. said. “Now, they’ve replaced that.” Gary also received spine and rib fractures when he was hit by a Ford F-150 just before midnight on Friday, Oct. 21 and thrown near the woodline in the 4400 block of University Drive, according to police reports. The driver, 22-year-old Matthew Hamilton, did not stop at the scene, but called police later and said he might have hit a person. After conducting a foot search of the area, Gary was found unconscious inside the woodline, next to a fence and several yards off the roadway, Nacogdoches Police Sgt. Greg Sowell has said. He had been laying there for at least 30 minutes before receiving medical attention, police reports indicate. “He (Gary) did tell me he really didn’t remember a whole lot about after he was hit because he was unconscious, but he knows what’s going on now,
Brown, Sr. said he was worried on Friday night when he didn’t hear from his son after Gary got off work, but figured he was just tired. “He always calls me when he gets off work and I text him every morning when I go to work,” Brown, Sr. said. “... and then his brother called me around 4 in the morning and I just lost it.” Gary lives in Nacogdoches with his 22-year-old brother and his father lives in Oklahoma. “I tried to get him to come over there (Oklahoma), but he wanted to follow his brother,” Brown, Sr. said. It was reported that Brown had come home from his shift at McDonald’s Friday night, and then was hit while he was jogging on University Drive. Brown, Sr. said that is his understanding of what happened, too. “I did get a chance to talk to him after they found him and brought him to the hospital and he was telling me, ‘Daddy, I love you,’ and then he asked me, ‘What time is it? I’ve got to go to work.’ He’s just started working and he’s really proud of his job,” Brown, Sr. said. Several of the NHS clubs that sell snacks after school to raise money for their organizations are all donating their week’s proceeds to Gary, the student council is collecting money in the commons each day and NHS is putting out a school email encouraging everyone to donate. The goal is to present “a large check for Gary and his family to show him how much his NHS family cares for him,” NISD Communications Director Marty Prince has said. Brown, Sr. said anyone who knows his son, loves him. “He’s just the sweetest kid, he’s real caring and he’d give you the shirt off his back,” he said. “He knows what
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