Katherine Patrici Grover

Crash may leave Rexburg 4-year-old paralyzed years after recovering from paralysis as an infant

• "He had contracted COVID from the day care that he was at, which caused him to get this virus called transverse myelitis," says Katherine Grover, Carter's mom. "We had miraculously made an almost full recovery from that." He just started walking again in April of 2024 last year. He was walking again and quickly learned how to run," Katherine Grover says. "Every three months we would go to Lehi, Utah, down to the new Primary Children's Clinic, which is incredible, to get Botox shots in his joints to keep him from sti"The accident caused a spinal cord tear in the C1 and C2 of (Carter's) spine, and his C5 and C6 were also damaged," Katherine Grover explains. "Due to the severity of the spinal cord tear, it has left Carter paralyzed from the neck down, and he is unable to breathe on his own."
• Date: Oct 01, 2025
• Category: Health
• Source: Google