Local Woman Supports Injured Grandson

By WESLIE STRATTON

Moapa Valley Progress

Overton resident Leisa Davidson reads a story to her 4 year old gradnson Sebastion Johnson who was hospitalized after falling off a cliff in Bodega Bay, California.

Moapa Valley resident Leisa Davidson has temporarily relocated to Oakland, California to be near her four-year-old grandson, Sebastion Johnson who is recovering after miraculously surviving a 230 foot fall on Nov. 10.

The young Johnson fell the equivalent of 23 stories over a cliff at Bodega Bay in California. Amazingly, he survived with serious injuries including multiple broken bones and skull damage.

“That day, Sebastion and his family were watching the sunset and throwing rocks into the ocean,” Davidson said. “His dad and sisters walked back up the trail. Sebastion and his mother followed. Sebastion lost his footing and fell 230 feet down the cliff.”
Davidson said that her grandson broke all the bones on the left side of his body and severely damaged his skull.
“Even the rescue workers said this is a fall that people don’t survive,” she said.

Davidson said that she travelled on Nov. 13 to the Oakland Children’s Hospital where Sebastion was being treated. She has stayed there ever since. “I’m not leaving my grandson’s side until he gets through this,” she said.

When news hit of her grandson’s accident many in the Moapa Valley community rallied around her family, Davidson said..
“Everybody calls me from down there (Moapa Valley),” she said, adding that she has received a constant outpouring of encouragement and support from the community.

Following his fifth surgery in a month, Davidson said that Johnson has had two casts removed and that he is sitting up in his wheelchair, nodding his head yes and no. She said that he is tired of being in bed.
“Sebastion is such a clown!” she said. “He sits up in his Posey bed…looks at himself in the mirror, raises his eyebrows over and over and then laughs at himself.”

Davidson said that she will stick around with Sebastion as long as it takes for him to improve.
“Being able to be here for my daughter is the most important thing for us right now,” she said. “I’m here to make sure that she takes care of herself so that she can take care of Sebastion.”

Donations can be made to assist in Johnson’s medical costs and other needs through gofundme.com/h7fg3w.
The site currently has 433 shares and Davidson expressed appreciation for all who have visited the site, shared positive messages and made donations.

“Everybody has totally rallied for me,” she said.