"Brain Dead" Man Wakes Up, Goes on Today Show

"Brain Dead" Man Wakes Up, Goes on Today Show
Zach Dunlap was in an ATV accident late last year, in which he suffered massive head injuries. Doctors would end up prounouncing him brain dead, and begin making preparations to harvest his organs.

Then, with his family gathered around him to say goodbye, Dunlap began moving.

He moved his foot and hand at first, then reacted to a pocketknife scraped across the bottom of his foot.

The "brain dead" Dunlap would eventually recover sufficiently to return home. Of course he and his family would be invited to appear on the Today Show to speak of their seemingly miraculous experience.

"I feel pretty good," Dunlap said in his interview, adding that he can't remember the crash that nearly killed him. "I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember," he said.

Dunlap also remembers hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

"I'm glad I couldn't get up and do what I wanted to do," he said.

So there you go...a brain dead man recovers and goes on the Today Show. There's hope for Perez yet.
Published 3/24/08 by

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