SEATTLE — Sequim High School football player Adrien Gault was “doing really great”‘ in Harborview Medical Center on Sunday, his mother said, following brain surgery for a brain hemorrhage.
Gault was airlifted to Harborview after experiencing seizures and slipping into a coma Friday during a home game against North Mason High School.
Doctors removed a piece of his skull to relieve pressure on his brain.
The fragment, which immediately was frozen, will be repositioned in three months, according to his stepfather, Kevin McCarter.
Patricia McCarter, Gault’s mother, said Sunday afternoon that Adrien “is days ahead of where we expected him to be.
“He is talking and making eye contact.
“He’s saying, ‘I love you, Mom. I love you, Dad.’ He’s responding to orders.”
Gault, 17, was taken to Olympic Medical Center, then to Harborview by helicopter, after complaining of headaches in the game’s second quarter and going into seizures, followed by a coma.