Giants Fan and Survivor Bryan Stow Visits Local North Coast Elementary School

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HYDESVILLE, Ca. (KIEM) – After suffering severe brain damage and surviving a brutal attack, Giants fan Bryan Stow now travels to different schools.  He shares his story and takes a stand against bullying.

In 2011, Bryan and a few of his friends were in Los Angeles watching the Giants take on the Dodgers. While walking to his car, two Dodger fans brutally attacked him. Beating him for minutes.

“Somebody came up running up behind us and I turned to see who it was and I got hit in the side of the head and went down,” says Bryan, “I was in a coma from that and then they beat me up for five or ten minutes.”

The attack left him in a nine month coma and when he woke up he had to learn how to live his life again.

“Imagine coming out of a coma and then your mom telling you were in coma,” said Bryan.

 “I remember I was just lying in bed going ‘No I went to a Giants game’ and she was like ‘No you were in a coma.”

His road to recovery still continues. But now part of it is educating kids about bullying.

“It makes me feel good if one of the kids understand what I was saying, I think I’ve done my job,” said Bryan.

Bryan and his mother, travels to different schools teaching kids about what happened to him and how bullying affected his life.

“It’s good for them to see the results of bullying,” said Bryan’s mother, Ann Stow, “But to get them to get the message to be kind and to reach out to other classmates that might be a little bit different.”

The kids adored his jokes, him, and his lesson. Even some of the adults watching loved what he had to say.

 “I think it’s great to have a real life account of how this has impacted him,” said Hydesville Elementary Superintendent Principal August Deshais.

Bryan has a few long term goals himself. One of them is to get back behind the steering wheel and start driving again.

Bryan also started The Bryan Stow Foundation. If you would like to know more you can check out their website www.bryanstowfoundation.org.