Another Miraculous Story

For some reason, pregnancy seems to give license for people to share their horror stories of labor. My experience regarding brain injury has been the opposite. Rather than stories of despair or deterioration, stories of amazing recoveries abound. I've just seen one such touching story recently in an online chat.

My cousin was a sheriff's deputy who had the misfortune to have a bomb planted underneath his cruiser. It blew and he wrecked. He was in a coma for 4 months. The docs told us that he would never regain consciousness and would remain a vegetable for the rest of his life. They said there was absolutely NO brain activity and that machines were the only thing keeping him alive. They wanted his wife to sign the papers to disconnect all life support. She refused and he is alive to this day, more than 20 years later. He came out of the coma with amazingly few deficits considering. His gait is awkward, his speech is sometimes slurred and he has some memory issues, but he knows who we are and has fewer executive functioning problems than my husband [also a TBI survivor]. He can drive himself, takes an active role in his church, helps coach little league, etc. As I stated before, WE WERE TOLD THAT HE WAS COMPLETELY BRAIN DEAD!!!! He did have to undergo extensive cognitive and physical therapies to learn to walk and talk, etc, but he is by no means brain dead! Do not give up hope!!!!! Until [the] last breath, there is always hope.

Psalm 37:4 Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.