Amazing Recovery Story

Risteard

Came across this on another forum but I think I should post it.

Link - Video

It's a news report/short documentary about a man from New Zealand who first suffered a head injury and was told not to play again. But considering he loved rugby so much he played another match before his father could get the courts to award an injunction to stop him playing.

He suffered another injury which left him in a vegetative state.

He was hours before being switched off from life support when he moved his thumb and now he's back walking and talking and in the gym.

Fantastic story and shows the strength of the man that he's come back after a horrific injury.

rebel girl 15

Unbelievable story, thanks for posting it!

greendom

Hope he doesn't have another go at Rugby

LeeroyJones

Incredible

Aidric

Don't know if anyone here was listening to Matt Cooper this evening. There was a story about a young enough guy from Limerick who got a box in the head over in Nottingham in 2009. He went in to a coma for three months as a result and was given a 10% chance of survival. Thankfully he pulled through but is now blind. It was sad stuff listening to it.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/back-from-the-brink-118249.html

toomevara

Aidric wrote: »

Don't know if anyone here was listening to Matt Cooper this evening. There was a story about a young enough guy from Limerick who got a box in the head over in Nottingham in 2009. He went in to a coma for three months as a result and was given a 10% chance of survival. Thankfully he pulled through but is now blind. It was sad stuff listening to it.

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/back-from-the-brink-118249.html

Yep, heard the interview. I've worked in a neuro rehab ward, and you'd be surprised how common such an occurence is. Chuck a punch at someone, they fall the wrong way, sub-dural haematoma and bang, game over...The young man they were talking about is very lucky in that he has no intellectual impairment which is extremely unusual.

rebel girl 15

toomevara wrote: »

Yep, heard the interview. I've worked in a neuro rehab ward, and you'd be surprised how common such an occurence is. Chuck a punch at someone, they fall the wrong way, sub-dural haematoma and bang, game over...The young man they were talking about is very lucky in that he has no intellectual impairment which is extremely unusual.

Just look at the poor guy in Leitrim, slipped and hit a fellas knee in a club football game, innocent clash from which he never regained consciousness