Rodeo star Spencer Wright's family hopes to wean critically injured 3-year-old off breathing tube

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The initial prognosis for 3-year-old Levi Wright, saddle bronc riding champ Spencer Wright's son, was grim after he nearly drowned in the Utah River last week. 

However, the boy's family remains hopeful and say that they aim to wean the boy off his breathing tube in the coming days. The boy's mother, Kallie Wright, wrote on Facebook yesterday that the "goal" this week is to "see if [Levi] will tolerate breathing on his own" if he is extubated. 

The boy will undergo another 24-hour electroencephalogram test, the mother wrote, which would gauge the electrical activity in his brain. 

Levi will also take another MRI to better understand the damage he suffered in the river. An earlier MRI this week left his family "shattered," Fox News Digital previously reported. 

WIFE OF RODEO STAR SPENCER WRIGHT SHARES TRAGIC UPDATE ON THREE-YEAR-OLD SON LEVI AFTER RIVER ACCIDENT

Levi Wright, left, smiles with his father, saddle bronc riding champion Spencer Wright. (Kallie Wright/Facebook)

"The MRI wasn't good," Levi's mother wrote in an earlier post. "We're shattered but it is just images that suggest a certain quality of life. Our real teller of all will be what Levi does over the course of a few days."

RODEO STAR SPENCER WRIGHT'S 3-YEAR-OLD SON HOSPITALIZED AFTER FALLING INTO UTAH RIVER ON TOY TRACTOR

The 3-year-old's mother dialed 911 last Tuesday when she saw Levi's toy tractor overturned by the river with no sight of the boy. (Kallie Wright/Facebook)

The boy was feared to be brain-dead after he fell off his toy tractor and into the river on Tuesday. He was found about a mile downstream from his Beaver County home and airlifted to Primary Children's