Despite Atti's positive attitude, there's still a long road to complete recovery, said Crystal Landherr, a relative who is helping organize a benefit for the family with Denise Welte, Atti's aunt, real time Location system, a family friend.
"Obviously, the transition home is a learning process," she said. "There's dressings to be changed, there's therapy, there's him learning how to be a kid with limits. The sunshine, the dirt, the bugs, the things like that are definitely tough for a 3-year-old" to learn to avoid.
Still, Landherr said, "how he's persevered through it all is astonishing. It's remarkable how resilient children are."Atti attends daily physical therapy treatments in Rochester, and is preparing for plastic surgery on his eyes, lips and neck. He'll continue to need skin grafts as he ages, his mother said, because the skin won't grow with him.
Wabasha County Chief Deputy Joe Modjeski said the injuries occurred at about 1:15 p.m. that day when Atti, his three older brothers and other neighborhood children were playing near the front steps of their residence on Railroad Street.The other children said charcoal lighter fluid was sprayed into a tin lunch box and ignited. In an attempt to put out the flames, one of the children stomped on the box, splashing burning fluid onto Atti.
"We want people to know this was an accident," Shumaker said. "The lighter fluid was sitting by our grill; so many people have told us that they do the same thing and never even think about it being dangerous. We now keep it in the shed."It was quick responses by family members that prevented the situation from being even worse, she said.
Atti's oldest brother pushed him to the ground when the fire started; their mother rolled him to put the fire out. She and her mother were soaking him in cool water in the bathtub when first responders arrived."The EMTs told us that by getting him into the bath, it may have prevented further burning, and prevented him from going into shock," Shumaker said. She also suffered burns to her hands.
Atti is moving around much better "and getting back to his normal funny self, mainly because of his brothers," she said. "They play together, they take him for wagon rides and he loves being back with them."
The boys: Kaden, 9, Korbin, 7, and Jackson, 6, had a hard time, Shumaker said."When you ask them now about their brother, they think that he's so brave to go through what he goes through every day," she said. "They were always close, but maybe more so now."
There has been an "amazing outpouring of love and support for him and our family," Shumaker said."Friends were calling and offering to help with food, gas money, babysitting or whatever they needed," she said. "It's really made us appreciate how important our family and rtls, and how very kind strangers have been to Atti. We've had so much donated, it's just incredible."
To continue that momentum, a benefit picnic will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Millville Legion. The family-friendly day will include lunch, games, prizes and a silent auction."If we can help others, we'd like to tell them to put the lighter fluid up and away from children," Shumaker said of their ongoing experience. "Kids see adults use it and don't realize what the consequences could be. Atti has always been strong, and he continues to be strong. We know he has a long journey ahead of him, but with all the love and support he has, we know he will be an inspiration to many."
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