Former Fairmont wrestler ‘trapped inside his own body’

Now, Doucet is in a hospital, working on weaning off of a ventilator.

“Ahmad can’t speak or purposefully move any of his limbs,” Doucet’s mother, Angela Fisher, said in a recent Facebook post. “He is trapped inside his own body. He understands what has happened to him, and it is absolutely heartbreaking.”

Doucet suffered the injury while at Prodigy Training Center in Springboro, and he was immediately transported to a local hospital. The stroke caused severe brain damage, and he was moved from the Cleveland Children's Clinic to the Cincinnati Children's Hospital over the past year before heading home from March 31 to May 26.

Volunteers, community members and friends helped renovate Fisher's home so that Doucet could live there. The renovations included wheelchair accessible spaces, as well as technology to not only help monitor Doucet, but also so that Doucet to control things like lighting in his room.

Doucet is back in a hospital now, weaning off the ventilator and working on getting to a rehab facility that specializes in his specific injury, Fisher posted.

“I am incapable of describing just how difficult this has been for him,” Fisher said. “This last year should have been his senior year of high school and celebrating his graduation. Instead, he has been fighting for his life and trying to recover the abilities that all of us take for granted.”

While this past year has been heartbreaking for Fisher, she continues to maintain a positive outlook.

“Although this has been a horrible year, there has also been so many blessings. Ahmad has come along way and is still showing us that he is still fighting. The love, prayers and support that we have received is just AMAZING! We are just so grateful and quite honestly could not have made it through this year without it,” Fisher said.

Doucet will likely transfer to an out-of-state rehab facility in the next phase of his recovery, Fisher posted.

Those interested in supporting Doucet can visit his GoFundMe page, or send letters of support directly to him at PO Box 20271, Dayton, OH 45420.