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Tanner,
like most kids his age, is a lively, happy
boy. But the 7-year-old’s story is far from typical. It
includes this heart-stopping turn of events: a baby
boy is badly burned and rushed to the hospital.
“Tanner was 11 months old and very active,
more active than my other kids,” says his mother,
Jennifer Woodard. One evening, the family lit
a fire in their fireplace to enjoy. Jennifer left the
room only for a moment. It was in that minute
that their lives changed drastically.
“Tanner wasn’t able to walk yet and was
crawling and climbing on things,” Jennifer says.
“Somehow he managed to get his leg up on
the fireplace and fell hands first into the fire and
coals.”
Tanner’s brother, Wyatt, who was 5 at the
time, pulled Tanner out of the flames and yelled
for his mom. “I knew immediately that he needed
medical attention,” Jennifer says. “His little hands
had swollen to two or three times what they nor-
mally were.”
When Tanner was badly burned as a baby, The Burn Center at SJCH was there
to give him specialty care—and it continues to provide that expertise today
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Jennifer recalls being taken by ambulance with
Tanner to the newly opened Burn Center at
San Joaquin Community Hospital (SJCH). In fact,
Tanner would be only the second patient to be
treated in The Burn Center.
When they arrived, Jennifer felt sure they were
in the right place. “I had tunnel vision,” she says.
“I really only remember people from the knees
down. It was such a blur. I remember a surgeon
coming to talk to me, and he was wearing san-
dals. That’s when I realized he had come in from
somewhere else just to help my son.”
Did you know?
Nearly
3 out of every 4 burn injuries
happen at home.
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7 YEARS STRONG
AND COUNTING