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Friday, December 23, 2011

An Arizona college student involved in a five-car accident in October, who was believed at one time to be brain dead, has awakened from a coma as hospital officials were beginning to talk to his family about organ donation. Sam Schmid, who suffered a hemorrhage, aneurysm and a stroke, is now expected to make a full recovery. "Nobody could ever give me a better Christmas present than this -- ever, ever, ever," said his mother, Susan Regan.

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Nice to hear stories like that.
Life. The BEST Christmas gift.

Probably heard he was about to be harvested and fought his way out of it. You really do have a better chance of surviving in a hospital if you don't sign the card ;/.

"I tell everyone, if they want to call it a modern-day miracle, this is a miracle," said Regan, 59, and a Catholic. "I have friends who are atheists who have called me and said, 'I am going back to church.'"

Schmid's doctor, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Robert Spetzler, agreed that his recovery was miraculous.

"I am dumb-founded with his incredible recovery in such a short time," said Spetzler. "His recovery was really remarkable considering the extent of his lethal injuries."

[GRINCH]Rather than further studying potential medical sciences, exploring cognitive technologies or recovery psychology they are drawn to something more or less esoteric? The fuller and more immediate implications of this type of comment are disappointing, regardless whomever's intention.[/GRINCH]

It's simpler and easier to say that Gawd did it than to say it was probably a combined effort of the patients good health, the good practices of the hospital staff and maybe even the love of his family.

Even while it is simpler to say that, I still don't see why it is needed. I think the answer is in the inverse.

If the child didn't live, then his health was bad and his family didn't love him and that the hospital staff sucked, but you never hear anyone say that Gawd killed him.

www.youtube.com

His name is Jesus and he is an illegal from Mexico, so let the persecution begin. The Mormons were right and Jesus rose in America!

Lettuceprey and dr. likesdick achieve this every day.

Great news for his family.

Perhaps we'll later find out if he had typical NDE experiences including memories, consciousness, and brain function even while he was flat-lined.

Giving even more data on consciousness separate from synaptic activity.

It's a Christmas Miracle!

Sure it wasn't Joe Biden

I'm betting he wasn't that bad off and his tissue type matched someone with connections. In anticipation of surgery to harvest his organs, someone reduced his medications and he accidentally woke up.

This young man can thank his lucky stars that Ezekiel Emanuel's Obamacare hasn't kicked in yet.

I bet it has something to do with the fact that I went to church last week for the first time in decades.

A miracle would be an amputated limb growing back. Come on Jesus, what do you have against amputees?

This young man can thank his lucky stars that Ezekiel Emanuel's Obamacare hasn't kicked in yet.

#12 | Posted by Huguenot

oh HugeNut you are so sadly Misinformed.

HCR has been the law of the land since March 2010. Millions have already benefited from it.

Really?
Except for all the waivers, right?

...and dr. likesdick achieve this every day.

#7 | Posted by Diablo

Now if that wasn't so darn rude, I'd have to say it was funny.

HCR has been the law of the land since March 2010. Millions have already benefited from it.

#15 | Posted by donnerboy

What happens in 2014, then? This thing is in affect now? Or just the tax generation part?

I'm waiting for the O'bungler to suck the 500 billion out of Medicare. He's already blinked on the first scheduled poaching.

"Lettuceprey and dr. likesdick achieve this every day.
#7 | Posted by Diablo"

How Christian of you. Dickhead.

This man is obviously brain dead. The symptoms of his so-called miraculous recovery are just reflexes. Quick, someone get a judge to sign an order to cut out his esophageal tube before it's too late.

And if he didn't make it, Mom would become an atheist?

Hospital officials are crediting Spetzler with having a "hunch" that despite an initially dire prognosis, the young man would make it. But he said it was "reasonable" for others to consider withdrawing the patient from life support.

"It looked like all the odds were stacked against him," said Spetzler, who has performed more than 6,000 such surgeries and trained the doctor who operated on Congressman Gabrielle Giffordsafter she was shot at the beginning of this year.

During surgery, Spetzler clipped the balloonlike aneurysm in the blood vessel -- "as if I were patching a tire," a procedure that eventually worked.

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So this doctor is responsible for Gabbie Gifford too. He trained the doctors who worked on her.

Truly amazing and great story.

It is a miracle.

I bet it has something to do with the fact that I went to church last week for the first time in decades.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2011-12-23 03:22 PM | Reply

Now there's a miracle.

I opened the link thinking it was about our president. But I am still happy for this young man

Nice to hear stories like that.
Life. The BEST Christmas gift.
#1 | Posted by Bellatrix at 2011-12-22 08:31 PM

Usually true.. Kim Jong Ill's death allegedly went two weeks unnoticed by the United States "intelligence" apparatus. A look-alike could have been employed easily for months, if not years. This was purposeful, handing the old militarized allegiances the duty of running the facade with one of Kim's offspring.. the third one? He looks strangely like a close friend of mine from South Korea did in high school.. minus the acne. He's been "groomed" only during the last year? Did he escape? Were the three all "groomed" and only this one survived? Anyhow, his father is resented, what makes a better focal point for furthering that hate than an unfit, uneducated, un-willing participant? I don't understand North Korea. I expect China does. In fact, this must seem quite decorum-friendly.

To North Koreans, Jong Ill's death was their Christmas wish.

Luckily, a replacement Kim was tepidly rushed into the gap.

So, "life" makes the second-best Christmas gift.

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