BATON ROUGE, La. ( WAFB /Gray News) - A young boy in Louisiana is continuing his road to recovery after going through a medical emergency earlier this year.

Cole Ditmore, 11, suffered a stroke six months ago. His mother, Angelina Frazier, said it happened after he had a freak accident on the playground at school.

According to Cole’s mother, he was standing with a marker in his mouth when he was accidentally hit by a soccer ball, shoving the marker into the back of his throat.

“The first thing he said to me, he was like, ‘Mom, am I going to die?’” Frazier said.

She said she was worried about him possibly showing signs of a concussion, so she took him to the nearest emergency room.

Doctors at Our Lady of the Lake St. Elizabeth Hospital spotted a small puncture hole in his throat from

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