Jenpennington

His employer was amazing. They kept his insurance active and paid for an entire year. A few of his bosses and the vice president of the company would regularly visit him. Take his clothes home to wash them. I couldn't say enough amazing things about the support they gave John before and during this time. Even still today, they are one of his biggest supporters

One of the hardest things I've ever had to do was tell you that our dad died and how he died.

The way it was explained to us (the family) is that there is different stages of a coma. John was fully unconscious for about a month. When he "woke up" from that he couldn't talk or communicate at all. He would just look at us and say "ahhh ahhh" after about 3 months he was able to respond to questions with one word answers. I would ask him if he knew who I was and he would respond "yes" and if I asked him what my name was he would say "Jennifer". But he was not fully aware of what was going on or able to have conversations with anyone until one day he woke up fully.

No the neurologist told us to prepare for him to always be in that confused semi conscious state. I'm not sure if the doctors just didn't want us to get our hopes up or if they truly didn't expect him to become fully conscious and live life as a normal adult. Either way, one thing I know for sure is, my brother is a fighter and he never gave up.

He just woke up one day. I got a call from one of the nurses that he was awake and lucid. It was a total shock and extremely emotional.