San Diego Teenager in Coma After Skateboard Crash

I gather the kid wasn't wearing a safety helmet.

At ABC 10 News San Diego, "Teen fights for his life after skateboard crash":

The teen was airlifted and has had some of the best care you can get, and he has needed it.

"We don't know the full damage right now," Robin said. "He will have a brain injury, [and] he will have hearing issues."

10News learned Joseph smacked the back of his head so hard his brain hit the front and became bruised.

"Yesterday, the swelling was just too much, and so they had to remove the right side of his skull," Robin explained. "They're going to take his feeding tubes now and surgically put them into his stomach tomorrow morning."

Then, they will wake him when, and if, he is ready.

"I just want him to wake up," Raymond said.

Raymond and Robin are the parents of Joseph Rogers, a 17-year-old going into his senior year in high school.