Colton Parks - Spanky's son

**MX154** · July 6th, 2008

If any of you guys know Spanky (owner of NTMX) his son went down pretty good tonight at Nocona (I believe)

Stolen from the NTMX site

Originally Posted by spanky

thanks guys, they careflighted him to parkland, we are in the trama center, and they are redoing all the tests. the xrays and ct from sherman were basicly crap. the neuro suregon came and talked with him and amber, because they found weakness in his right arm, that may be due to nerve damage(not sure of the severety at this time, because he has had minimal movement all day). the 4 vertebrey i tink are the t8-12 and they are all broke. not sure of the jaw, but the cheek bone is broke, and the new tests will tell if there is any damage to his neck. lungs have lacerations, ther is some fluid in his pelvic area, not sure at this time, but the tests will tell what this is, possibly other internal damage? of coarse a concussion, and his recent eye surgery will have to be redone. when i got to him, his face was covered in blood...pretty messed up looking.

thanks for all the thoughts, prayers, and calls.

sorry for the spelling, its late at night, and not in the right mind as of now.

I'm sure he'll get on here to post more info as soon as he can.

**spanky** · July 6th, 2008

thanks collin, actually he went down at NTMX. here is the rundown as of 6 am.
please say a prayer for colton, he went down in practice this morning, we spent the day in sherman then at 11pm he was careflighted to parkland. as of right now he is still in trama e.r. but he should have a room in the next few hrs. after they get all the results back. the kown damage so far is 4 broke vertebre in his mid back T7-11 i think, broken jaw, broken cheek bone, concussion, 2 busted eyelids, (recent eye surgery) and now he will have to have another surgery for his eyes(one is reallly messed up now!). lacerations to his lung, fluid in his pelvic area(waiting on tests to determine what is damaged causing this?). the nuero suergon came in earlier to check him out a little more, and found that he cant lift his legs due to pain in his tailbone area, and they will be checking that pretty soon. basicly he s beat up pretty bad.
poor kid hasnt had anything to eat or drink in over 24hrs, just incase they have to do surgery on his spine, or abdominal area, and has been on his back for about 16 hrs.
none of this seems critical at this time, but if you would, keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
sorry for the poor spelling, but i have been up way to many hrs, and i can barely hold my eyes open.
i actually fell asleep as i was posting this...from the parking garage at parkland.

**Sheriff** · July 6th, 2008

I am so sorry to hear about this Spanky. He is a nice kid and I hope the very best for him and your family.

**The_VIKING** · July 6th, 2008

hope he gets to feeling better, spanky!
got y'all in our thoughts & prayers!

**spanky** · July 6th, 2008

thanks guys, just hangn out waiting on more info and tests.

**Zero** · July 6th, 2008

wow...that sounds like a nasty list of injuries. He is in our prayers. Get well.

**11kphotos** · July 6th, 2008

Oh man, sorry to hear this spanky. hope he heels up soon.

**spanky** · July 6th, 2008

thanks guys, i think we are in he right place. they are only concerned with his spine, we just seen another neuro surgeon, and that is their main concern, the other things will be ok. his spine will to, they are just putting all concern on it, that makes dad and mom real happy! cant say enough for parkland.

**hunter15dad** · July 6th, 2008

Man Spanky hate to hear bout this. Hope things keep going yalls way. I called and told Hunter as Iam out of town working. He ask about going to see him. Keep us informed.
Tad

**Neyhart198dad** · July 6th, 2008

Oh man Spanky so sorry to hear about this,you said this happened at NTMX,what happened?How did he end up with such severe injuries,our family will definitely keep Colton in our prayers.And his mom and dad who are going through just as hard a time as young Colton is.

**spanky** · July 6th, 2008

he was jumping "the gap" on the day track, a jump that was intended for int. and pros, he had done it many times on friday (against my wishes) sat morning he got up, tryed to hit it before even warming up, got out of shape came down hard over the bars face first into the ground, causing the facial damage and the broke vertebre's . this i a compession fracture...not good! i know we have all heard of a few people with these, who did not come out verry well.
just thankful that it came out this good.

**afroracing** · July 6th, 2008

Just sitting here thinking of how excited and happy my little buddy was after he did the gap and how scared daddy was...
He has been eyeballing the jump for about 3 months and finally got the nerve to hit it Friday evening flawlessly. Colton got over confident with himself early in the morning, Saturday.

Can can not express the importance of a proper warm-up before going BIG.

Hang in there, my little swiggle butt!

**ktm300hater** · July 6th, 2008

Heres to a full and speedy recovery

**11kphotos** · July 6th, 2008

Originally Posted by spanky

this i a compession fracture...not good! i know we have all heard of a few people with these, who did not come out verry well.

Hey spanky, i've been through this and turned out reasonably ok (was 24 at the time). Colton will heal up ok. Give him our best and we arent far from ya if you guys need anything.

**spanky** · July 6th, 2008

thanks again guys,
11k they have good hopes that all will be fine, the whole deal is still touchy though, they still havnt made a decission on surgery though.
colton said go ahead and sell the bikes, he will get into pitbikes, and after this, im completely fine wih it. i was going to just put the bikes up, but he is dead set on being done with them.