
California Man Wakes Up From Coma Right Before Disconnecting Life Support
Oceanside, CA (LifeNews.com) -- A California man awoke from a coma right before his doctors were about to disconnect his life support. The story gives more credence to the notion that families should avoid making premature decisions to take the life of a loved one, because of the possibility of recovery. Mike Connolly is a 56-year-old man whose heart stopped in late January and he lay in bed comatose for about four days when his family decided to give doctors permission to remove his life support. That's when Connolly recovered and interacted with his world around him once again. According to the North County Times, Connolly's stepson Mike Cooper was reading Scripture by his bedside when he noticed a tear going down Connolly's cheek. Cooper soon left the room, only to return moments later when heard another family member cheering and hollering. "He said Mike was responding," Cooper told the newspaper. "I didn't believe him, but I went back in there, and it was true. You would say his name, and he would turn his head toward you. It was a miracle." The news was surprising because doctors has said Connolly had brain damage from his heart stopping and would never recover from the coma. Now he is making steady progress and the same physicians say he will make a full recovery. Ref. Source 7
Doctors mostly assume based on averages. Doctors do not determine outcomes based on the power of the human body or 'act of God'. This is a miraculous incident. The main reason for disconnection sometimes has a lot to do with costs as well.