Higgins is “excited to go back to work and live a sober life.”
In June, Isaac Higgins made a decision that could have altered the course of his life forever. Instead, he feels he is a walking miracle.
Higgins, who lives in Vineyard, Massachusetts, suffered a traumatic brain injury after falling off the roof of a moving car in late June in Edgartown, Massachusetts. According to mvtimes.com, Higgins was “reportedly picked up from a beach by two juvenile females in a Volkswagen Passat. He climbed out of the car and onto its roof while it was moving.” The website said the female driver “yelled at him to get back inside and decelerated,” but he fell off the roof. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with a head injury and was in critical condition.
The doctors did not think he would ever “come out of his coma, and that he might never walk again,” his aunt, Karen Blake-Robinson, told mvtimes.com. “They said even if he wakes up, they had no idea what to expect.” And, she added, “I don’t think the doctors ever thought he would be where he is now – they thought he would be severely disabled.
Blake-Robinson, however, did not give up hope. She said she told doctors in a meeting that “‘God will heal him from this,’ and that she was confident he would make a full recovery.”
A little more than two weeks after the accident, Higgins came out of the coma. When he first awakened, the website said, he responded to dialogue through facial cues. He also was able to “occasionally move his legs and arms” and turn his “head in the direction of his loved ones’ voices,” Blake-Robinson said in the article.
“The doctors and nurses all can’t believe how far he has come in such a short amount of time,” Blake-Robinson told mvtimes.com. She said, “Every day the doctors check on him, he is doing something different.”
According to mvtimes.com, after Higgins had multiple intensive surgeries, he “was no longer considered to be in critical condition.” They explained “to him where he was and the events that had occurred.” And, the website said, “they even played some of his favorite music to life his spirits and aid in his recovery.”
“Higgins was moved to the recovery unit at Spaulding Rehabilitation Center and underwent more procedures,” and his recovery “began to speed up,” according to the website.
Blake-Robinson said that Higgins began “progressing so quickly,” his family could not “even keep up.” She said he was “able to walk on his own, sometimes with people guiding him.” And, she said, he was “holding full conversations, eating regular food, and watching his favorite television shows.” The doctors had removed his electrolarynx,”allowing him to speak, the article stated.
Higgins was occasionally confused and disoriented, the article said, but “doctors told the family they would consider setting a discharge date based on the results of Higgins’ next MRI scan.”
While Higgins was recovering, his family “created the hashtag #ISAACSTRONGMV and made wristbands and T- shirts to garner support for Higgins’ recovery and give people something tangible to think of him,” mvtimes.com said.
In addition, family and friends asked people to change their profile pictures on Facebook to a picture of Higgins’ eyes, according to the website. They also created a GoFundMe page to help with expenses. As of this post, $9,325 has been raised of their $20,000 goal.
In August, Higgins returned home to his family, friends “and beloved dogs, and says he is excited to continue his life with a new perspective.” He said he feels “incredible, and even though it’s a huge environmental change, everything feels right.”
Higgins told mvtimes.com that “he was never the most religious person in his family,” but he is “convinced that a force was watching over him throughout the entire experience.
“God had to have heard the prayers from everyone back home. I can’t explain the feeling, but I know that a miracle happened, and that’s why I am here today,” Higgins said in the article.
According to mvtimes.com, Higgins is “excited to go back to work and live a sober life,” after “making it through an incident where drinking contributed to a choice that almost took that life from him.”
“I understand now that alcohol can consume you,” he told mvtimes.com. “If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that you have to be slow and cautious with every step you take in life. I never considered how much my choices could affect my friends and family.”
And that’s another reason he feels he is a walking miracle. You can see he is a walking miracle, too.
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