Six days after a basketball-sized rock hit 2-year-old Caleb Brown in the head, the boy remains in critical condition, his family said.
The boy’s father, Tim Brown, said the family, who live in Nashville, has been “waiting and praying” since the incident at Fall Creek Falls last Saturday.
Doctors at T.C. Thompson Children’s Hospital are monitoring swelling in the child’s brain and must wait until the swelling peaks before any idea of damage is known, the father said. Caleb is under sedation until the swelling subsides.
“At this point, we don’t know anything,” Brown said,
Caleb was injured when his family, including his father, mother, Tiffany, and 4-year-old brother Colby were hiking at the state park in Van Buren County on their first family camping trip.