Taylor Hale’s life was like any other teen’s four years ago. She looked forward to get-togethers with friends after a high school football game. She was a 14-year-old freshman at the time, living in Iowa.
“I begged my mom to go,” she stated, according to Yahoo News .
Unfortunately, Hale’s mother, Stacey Henningsen, received the call no parent wants to get hours later. Taylor was being taken to a hospital by ambulance after being in a car accident.
In a freak accident on of September 11, 2011, Taylor had playfully jumped on the hood of a friend’s car. She was flung off the hood onto the pavement, tragically hitting her head and remaining unconscious, according to the Daily Mail .
Taylor’s father, Chuck Hale, received the following diagnosis from doctors, according to Yahoo News .
“They said it was a very severe traumatic brain injury. They woke me up about three in the morning to say that they had been doing CPR and lifesaving measures for probably about an hour-and-a-half to two hours.”
After spending a week in a medically-induced coma, Taylor sadly took a turn for the worse. On September 17, Taylor suffered a brain hemorrhage, resulting in her brain sliding partially into her spinal canal. This is considered a point of no return and is almost always irreversible and fatal. The situation was so serious that doctor’s indicated that Taylor’s parents should start thinking about donating her organs.
Henningsen, realizing the severity of her daughter’s situation, stated, “That’s when it was finally starting to sink in that she might actually not wake up.”
In desperation, the family turned a chiropractor, Dr. Jeff Stickel, to help their daughter in the hospital. He met with Taylor mere hours before she was going to be taken off life support. Stickel explained how they found him and what he could do to help the teen, according to Yahoo News .
“Her aunt had been in for chiropractic adjustments and they just were asking if there was anything I can do….I just felt like if I could get my hands on her head and neck that there was maybe a chance that there was an interference in there in her healing and that’s why she wasn’t waking up. I just remember my fingers kind of moving. I could feel Taylor’s energy and she was definitely alive. She was not dying.”
Then, the miraculous recovery began, to everyone’s amazement. Henningsen stated the following, according to Yahoo News .
“[The nurse came in and said] ‘I don’t know how to tell you this but she’s breathing on her own and we don’t know how or why.’ Within an hour she kind of opened her eye to her grandpa. Then the next hour she would kind of just life her arm up.”
Taylor continued to amaze her doctors by continuing to recover, even walking and talking five weeks after the accident. Experts are stating that recovery from traumatic brain injury is becoming more common. Dr. Stephan Mayer, a neurosurgeon and the Director of the Institute for Critical Care at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City, stated the following, according to Yahoo News .
“We are learning now that these previous notions we had of what’s impossible really are obsolete and the human brain is much more resilient than we have ever given it credit for.”
Everything did not go smoothly, as Taylor struggled to regain her cognitive ability and grew frustrated because her long-term memory was gone. But she took her finals and will graduate. Taylor, 17, who is excited to graduate from high school and to attend a local community college in the fall to study event planning, also believes there was divine intervention in her recovery and stated the following.
“I’m always thankful to all the doctors and nurses and therapists who helped me get better, but God did most of the saving. Afterwards I’m going to be the happiest person in the world because I did do it and I fought for my life. I finished high school and I can go on to bigger and better things in my future.”
In another case of a miraculous recovery , Danielle Josey Davis was married only seven months when a horrible motorcycle crash left her husband, Matt Davis, on life support, in a coma. To make it worse, doctors told her that there was a 90 percent chance that he would never wake up, and that she should let him pass. But she refused to give up. Danielle kept him on life support and brought Matt home, and she and her mother cared for him. Then a miracle happened. Three months after the horrific motorcycle crash, Matt woke up, according to an article in the Inquisitr .