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Jefferson High School senior who broke neck while wrestling needs second surgery, father says [Video]

Editor’s note: The video above is from previous coverage.

ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) – A Jefferson High School senior who broke his neck during a state wrestling championship last week will undergo a second surgery, according to his father.

Dominic Haines was injured at the Georgia High School Association State Championships in Macon last Thursday. While the first surgery put a cage around Dominic’s spine to help with the pressure, the second surgery this Thursday will re-fuse his vertebrae, his father, Keith Haines, said.

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“I hate seeing my boy in so much pain,” he wrote in a social media update. “If the old saying, ‘What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger’ is true, I better watch out when he’s back in action, because he’s going to be a machine.”

Keith said Dominic has regained feeling from the chest up. During a physical therapy session, a therapist said she could feel …

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