Rodeo star Spencer Wright and his family are pulling the plug on his 3-year-old son, Levi, following his tragic near-drowning last month, the boy’s mom said in a heartbreaking Facebook post.
“After several sleepless nights, lots of research, multiple conversations with the world’s best neurologists & million of prayers we are here in the face of our biggest fear,” Levi’s mom Kallie Wright wrote Sunday.
“I find comfort in knowing he will be restored to the perfect little boy he was & have the ability to do all the things he loves,” she said. “I know there are Angels up there waiting to hold him until I can again.
“We love you baby beans and I can’t wait till the day you can ‘work the ground’ with me again.”
Levi was hospitalized in critical condition at a Salt Lake City hospital after driving a toy tractor into the water and falling into a river in Beaver County, Utah, on May 21.
The bubbly toddler was not expected to survive but showed some promising signs early on despite being declared brain dead — and even woke up in his hospital bed, giving his family hope.
This week, Levi’s family decided to let him go.
“Levi showed us just enough to buy us time for all of this,” Kallie Wright wrote in her Facebook post. “We prayed those things were him dying odds & proving to us that he wanted to stay here but we see now he wanted to give us time to find peace with letting him go.
“During this time he brought out humanity across the nation, he dropped so many to their knees & reminded them what truly matters in this world,” the grieving mom wrote. “It kind of gives that T-rex strength a whole new meaning, doesn’t it?”
Levi’s dad, Spencer Wright, was ranked 35th in the world last year by ProRodeo, and is the son of ProRodeo hall of fame Bill Wright.
The Wright family was the subject of the book “The Last Cowboys” and was featured on “60 Minutes.”
