Michigan Teen Makes Miraculous Recovery After Cracking His Skull, Falling Into Coma in Accident
Even doctors admit that what happened to 17-year-old Jeffrey Meister from Grand Ledge, Michigan was a miracle.
On March 17, the base of the teen's skull broke in half after he fell backwards on the concrete floor while walking up a flight of stairs at his girlfriend's house, the Detroit Free Press reported.
The fall was so severe that he immediately fell into a coma and suffered bleeding around his brain, as well as a stroke. After being rushed to hospital, doctors quickly removed the right side of his skull to relieve the pressure on his brain.
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Doctors at Sparrow Hospital later told Jeffrey's father, Ryan Meister, 34, that the fracturing of his son's skull actually saved his life. "It relieved the pressure from the blood building up in his cranial cavity," they said.
But still, the doctors admitted that the kind of head injuries that Jeffrey suffered are usually fatal and they didn't expect Jeffrey to survive.
That's why they were stunned when five days after his fall, Jeffrey woke up from his hospital bed and spoke the words "dad" and "mom."
Stephen Guertin, medical director at Sparrow's pediatric intensive care unit, described Jeffrey's recovery as "miraculous."
Days later, the doctors removed Jeffrey's feeding tube and his ventilator. He began regaining his abilities to sit up with assistance, talk, move his hands and, later, stand up and take a few steps.
"Miracles are out there," his father said. "We're never going to give up hope."
A survey of more than a thousand doctors in the U.S. showed that 74 percent of them believe that miracles have occurred in the past while 73 percent believe that they can occur today, Business Wire reported.
A remarkable finding from the poll was that U.S. doctors are overwhelmingly religious, with 72 percent expressing belief that religion provides a reliable and necessary guide to life.
Perhaps the most surprising result of the survey is that a majority of doctors (55 percent) said they have seen treatment results in their patients that they would consider miraculous, according to Christian writer James Bishop in his blog.
Of the 1,100 doctors surveyed, 605 claimed to have witnessed a medical miracle.
Bishop says even his personal doctor, "who is not particularly religious in any way," witnessed some things that "are not scientifically explainable." For instance, one of his patients, an elderly lady who was scheduled for a back surgery to correct a dislodged spinal disc, came back to the doctor, telling him that her back had healed after her family prayed for her.
Scans of her back confirmed this full recovery and the operation was cancelled, Bishop says.
