Carter Yunick STARS Very Important Patient

3 weeks ago

1 minute read

Like a lot of kids, Carter lives for excitement, with one of his favorite pastimes being competing in motocross events. During one of his races, his final race of the day, Carter hit a rut on the track which caused him and his bike to fly off the track, causing an open fracture of his right arm near his wrist.

“It looked like his hand was almost going to come off,” said Tenille, Carter’s mom.

Carter was immediately rushed to a local hospital, where it was determined he need to have immediate surgery at a major hospital to avoid infection and save his hand. That’s when a STARS Air Medical Crew was called in.

Because Carter’s injuries were considered non-life threatening, Tenille was able to travel in the helicopter with Carter. The care she saw him received, helped reinforce the importance of the level of care STARS provides to its patients.

“The medic who was attending to him didn’t just tend to his medical needs. She also kind of took the role as a mom too.” Said Tenille. “There was one point when Carter was coming to that I was really put at ease. She was talking to him and was rubbing his forehead, like something I would do as a mom. Those extra things really meant a lot to me.”

Upon arrival at the hospital, Carter was rushed into surgery where doctors were able to save his hand. While not everything is back to 100 percent just yet, Carter is thriving and enjoying all the things that his family worried he might miss out on.

“We never thought we would see him serving overhand in volleyball again, and he had an amazing serve this season with his school,” said Tenille. “Basketball is another, if not his favourite sport which he is currently mid-season and he amazingly picked up right where he was preinjury. He’s adapted so well and him being the competitive, athletic kid that he is was huge for our family.”

Carter and his family are proud to be sharing their STARS story and kindly ask you to donate to their campaign in support of the Critical Care on the Air Radiothon.