ProRodeo Sports News - May 31, 2019

FAITH AND RECOVERY

Hadley walks back into arena where he was injured BY TRACY RENCK S hane Hadley cheated death. The steer wrestler’s family was told to be prepared for Hadley to be read his last rites after he suffered a head injury during a rodeo accident May 12, 2018. Instead, Hadley lived and is progressing every day. How the rodeo accident happened is something Hadley doesn’t remember. tangled up with the horse. The horse stumbled to the ground with Hadley aboard. The horse fell on Hadley and rolled on top of him. He was flight- lifted to John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. While Hadley was in the ICU and listed in critical-but-stable condition, the prognosis wasn’t good. The Miracle Cowboy William Kierce photo Shane Hadley competes at Los Fresnos (Texas) Rodeo in February 2018. He was injured three months later in Mineral Wells, Texas.

“How they explained it to us is like having a glass bowl and having it shatter into a million pieces and all the pathways are disrupted,” said Trina Powers-Hadley, Shane’s mother. “They gave us absolutely no hope that day, but I was not going to give in that this was going to be the end. Because we’re so full of faith, I took the two pastors to church and set them on their heels. I told them if you’re here to pray with me in agreement of how God can heal, you’re welcome to stay. If you’re here to prepare him (to pass away) I’m coming up swinging. They prayed in agreement with me. We just kept letting Shane prove that we were right to trust God. “We used all the essential oils that oxygenate the brain and that was the only thing different that we were allowed to do besides what they

“My memory starts about two weeks before the accident and then picks up again two months after the accident,” Hadley said. “I don’t remember anything about the accident.” A DAY HADLEY’S FAMILY WILL NEVER FORGET Hadley, a native of Moorcroft, Wyo., was injured while competing at the Mineral Wells (Texas) Rodeo. During Hadley’s run, the steer cut in front of Hadley’s horse and got

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