Story looked at a boy who was found not breathing and near dead by his mother at a school in Harlingen after playing the choking game. He had been seeking that brief euphoric high that comes when oxygen is first cut off from the brain and then rushes back as a rope is released from the neck. Levi was a happy outgoing teen, but he was feeling stress at his highly structured military school. Story detailed what happens with choking and the boy’s slow physical, psychological and cognitive recovery from global anoxic brain injury – an injury that occurs when the brain is deprived of oxygen. His mother’s growing activism on the issue also was part of the story.
