Three months after being shot during the Highland Park parade massacre, 8-year-old Cooper Roberts is back home.
After a life-saving surgery and in-patient stays that separated him from his father, mother, twin brother, and four sisters, he has returned home, his family said on Sept. 22.
“The transition to having Cooper’s extensive medical needs being addressed at home vs. at the hospital or rehabilitation clinic is a gigantic learning curve for all of us,” they explained. “And, now that he is home, Cooper has to deal on a daily basis with the sadness and grief of recognizing all the things he’s lost — all that he used to be able to do at his house, in his community, that he cannot do anymore.
“Even much of his own home which he cannot access,” explained their statement. “For all the love that he has come back to, there are so many painful reminders of what he has lost. There is no word that we know of that adequately describes the level of pain you feel or that Cooper feels when he sees his bike he can no longer ride or his old soccer jersey...heartbreaking, agonizing, despair — there is just not a painful enough description.
Cooper's family said the little boy is still athletic and he's already decided to pick up wheelchair tennis.“It is filled with a lot of new challenges and continued grief for what we have lost,” said their statement. “There is a lot of trying to figure out how to pick up the broken pieces of a life we knew and put it back together, but without the instructions. Even our home, which we all have loved, simply cannot work for us anymore with Cooper and a wheelchair and many other needs.
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