Bullying victim Zhane Abubakr’s family are anxiously waiting to learn if the teen will walk again, after he underwent surgury.
|||Durban - Bullying victim Zhane Abubakr’s mother prayed at his bedside on Sunday as the family waits anxiously to learn if the teen will walk again.
Zhane underwent bone graft surgery on Friday.
Surgeons removed a piece of his hip to repair damage to three neck vertebrae, broken after school bullies inflicted a dangerous wrestling manoeuvre on him, dropping him head-first on to concrete paving.
“It’s been a very emotional period for us seeing Zhane lying there not being able to eat, with two holes on the side of his head being fed through a pipe,” said his mother, Shaida Abubakr, who has just started a new job in Johannesburg. “It just breaks me...”
The Chatsworth teenager wore a thick bandage around his neck and was on a morphine drip to ease the pain.
His mother has been at his bedside since he was admitted to King Dinuzulu (King George V) Hospital’s intensive care unit.
Zhane was injured two weeks ago when two fellow Marklands Secondary School pupils allegedly used the “Tombstone Piledriver” move on him.
The move was made famous by WWE wrestling star, The Undertaker.
“He’s in a lot of pain and he can’t handle it. They took a bone from his hip and put it in his neck so he can’t move anything from his waist down,” Abubakr said.
“He also can’t eat or swallow anything right now.
“No mother should go through something like this. It’s terrible seeing your child suffer like this.”
She said Zhane was usually full of fun.
“We’re always laughing when he’s around; he is very funny.”
The teen said he was in a great deal of pain, but hoped the doctors would be able to give him and his family some positive feedback.
“I just hope I am able to walk after this. It’s painful right now, but it’s still early. We’ll wait to hear what they have to say to us,” Zhane said as he turned away from the television set.
“The funny thing is that I only have one channel and wrestling is playing in the background,” he quipped.
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