Sam Schmid was a junior at the University of Arizona when he was critically wounded in a five-car accident. He suffered brain injuries so severe the local hospital couldn't treat him. On October 19, 2011, Sam was airlifted to the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, where specialists did all they could to save him.
Dr. Robert Spetzler was puzzled by Sam's situation. Sam was completely unresponsive, but his MRI didn't indicate any fatal injuries. So Spetzler followed his gut and kept him on life support. However, after two months in a coma, it seemed that Sam was brain-dead. As the days went by, the hospital staff and family discussed organ donation.
Then something unthinkable happened… Hours before doctors planned on pulling the plug, Sam lifted up two fingers on command. Like Martin Pistorious who was comatose for 12 years, Sam beat the odds to wake up.
"I tell everyone, if they want to call it a modern-day miracle, this is a miracle," said his mother Susan Regan. "I have friends who are atheists who have called me and said, 'I am going back to church.'" The catch? It all happened just in time for Christmas. Within seven days of his miraculous recovery, Sam was walking and talking again. Today, the guy is a basketball player!
"In a way, his recovery was truly miraculous," said Dr. Spetzler. "It's a great Christmas story."
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