High school student paralysed from shoulders down following swimming accident last month
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Save Aseri "TJ" Bese was injured in a swimming accident last month. Photo / Givealittle
A high school student became paralysed from the shoulders down last month following a swimming accident in Auckland.
Aseri "TJ" Bese is in the spinal unit at Middlemore Hospital and still needs support breathing.
A Givealittle page has been set up to help raise funds to help Aseri
and his family following the accident on the last day of Term 1, April 12.
"Unfortunately, a horrific swimming accident has left TJ paralysed from the shoulders down," it said.
"When TJ is cleared from ICU he is going to require a lot of rehabilitation and it will be a long road back through recovery for him and the family.