BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - These days, it’s not unusual to see a young person pushing their body to the limit, and several times a week, you will find 11-year-old Cole Ditmore doing just that with endless reps of squats, pushups, and weights. “My body tells me, you can’t do this, but my motivation tells me yes, you can, you can do this,” said Cole.

But it’s not an athletic scholarship or an NIL deal he’s working toward. Instead, it’s a chance at a future he came very close to losing. “The first thing he said to me, he was like, ‘Mom, am I going to die?’” recalled Cole’s mother, Angelina Frazier.

Six months ago, Cole had a freak accident on the playground at school. 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

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