There will be a fundraiser dinner the first Sunday of August for Timmy Hatch, a 25-year-old Boulder Creek resident who slipped into a coma May 24 a few hours after being hit in the head with a baseball.
Hatch was playing baseball in his backyard with his brother and friends when the ball hit him behind his left temple. He was knocked unconscious for a few seconds, but soon woke up and insisted he was fine.
He wasn’t.
Early the next morning, Hatch began to seize. His brother, Isaac, immediately called for an ambulance, and Hatch was rushed to the hospital, where he was treated for a fractured skull and a severed major artery.
A blood clot had caused his brain to shift to the right side of his head, and Hatch fell into a coma before reaching the hospital,
After a two-week stay at Santa Cruz Dominican Hospital, he was moved to a Kaiser Permanente facility in Santa Clara. He stayed at Kaiser until July 18 when he was released to a rehabilitation center in Los Altos.
Although the staff at the Los Altos center is more hopeful about the Hatch’s recovery than his previous doctors, they say that he is in a “persistent vegetative state with no hope of changing.”
However, Hatch’s family believes that he will one day wake up and fully recover.
“I have no doubt that we will have our Timmy back again someday,” said his mother, Dawn, on the family’s Facebook page.
The fundraiser will go toward Hatch’s long-term recovery. The dinner will feature a spaghetti feed, bake sale, silent auction and raffle.
For information: www.timmyhatch.com.
At a glance
WHAT: Spaghetti feed for Timmy Hatch
WHEN: 3 to 6 p.m. Aug. 2
WHERE: Felton Bible Church, 5999 Graham Hill Road, in Felton
COST: $10 adults, $5 kids, $25 family of four
