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Cole Ditmore was rushed to Our Lady of the Lake St. Elizabeth Hospital in Louisiana after a "freak accident" at this school

The 11-year-old has been having physical therapy since the incident six months ago

“I couldn’t respond and I couldn’t talk,” Ditmore recalled to local news outlet WAFB

An 11-year-old boy is recovering from a stroke that he suffered after a “freak accident” at his school in Louisiana.

Cole Ditmore was standing in his school playground with a marker in his mouth when a soccer ball accidentally hit him six months ago. The impact of the ball shoved "the marker into the back of his throat,” his mother, Angelina Frazier, told local outlet WAFB .

Frazier was initially concerned that Ditmore had suffered a concussion when she brought him to Our Lady of th

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