Baby doing well after being hit by puck at Swift Current game
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A six-month-old baby is home and healthy after being hit in the head with a hockey puck at a Swift Current Broncos game on Saturday.
Brianna Zacharias says the whole family loves hockey and that’s why she and her husband took their three young sons to the game, including baby Stetson.
“My little guy was sleeping on my lap and a puck came over the glass and hit him in the head,” she said.
“It was very scary but the paramedics were there immediately and they kind of took over and took very good care of him.”
After rushing to the emergency room, doctors took X-rays that showed a small fracture to Stetson’s skull, but his vital signs were fine. After spending a very hard night worrying in the hospital, the young mom say she was so relieved to be told Stetson could go home.
Now a few days later, Zacharias says Stetson is back to his playful, happy self.
“You always feel like he is safe in your arms so I wouldn’t have guessed like anything like that would have happened,” Zacharias said, noting that the puck hit her arm which may have helped deflect the impact.
The family was sitting in section A, row 5 – close to the edge of the protective netting that stretches above the glass on both ends. As a mom, she is simply relieved that her son is going to be OK, but Zacharias said she has been thinking about that protective netting. Shaunavon is her hometown and she says when the town built the new hockey rink, the committee decided to add netting to the top of the glass around the whole ice surface and not only the ends.
Zacharias says the family is very touched by the outpouring of support and concern from friends, family and the whole community. The Swift Current Broncos even sent over a small jersey autographed by everyone on the team. Growing up in a hockey town with a family of hockey fans, his mom thinks Stetson will treasure that jersey when he is older.
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