According to her parents, the then-14-year-old girl, Taylor, reportedly went brain-dead and the doctors told her family that it’s time to say goodbye. Though the girl was young and had her whole life ahead of her, they thought that the child is not coming back from the dead. On the day of the incident, the 14-year-old girl joined her friends to celebrate the school’s first football game that year. It was a big occasion for the students, and no one wanted to leave. But when it became time for everyone to go home, Hale and a friend asked the person teasingly why they were in such a hurry to leave. She and her friend attempt to keep the boy around by sitting on his car, but he doesn’t care and drives away. Taylor was drug until her head hit the pavement which resulted in severe injuries.
Her head hit the ground so hard that her friends thought she was joking and laughed. When she didn’t move, they realized it was serious. When the girl arrived at the hospital, doctors were pessimistic about her survival rate and feared it may have been too late. They realized that she had suffered a brain hemorrhage and her brain was bleeding by the early morning hours. The week prior she hadn’t shown any response, and upon learning her brain was hemorrhaging, doctors were sure of a negative outcome.
The doctors were worried when they saw the brain sink into the spinal canal as it could mean that the teenager’s brain was no longer oxygenating and would eventually die. “No one comes back from that,” the doctors told her parents. The doctors said the teen’s brain had turned to mush and that she was brain dead, meaning there would be no more improvement. They recommended her parents take her off life support. Taylor’s news traveled quickly throughout the town, and a family friend named Dr. Strickel came to visit him in the hospital. While he was there, Dr. Strickel called on God for help – and God answered his prayers.
He felt God was calling him to treat Taylor. Taylor’s parents’, Stacy and Chuck, thoguht he was too late. Dr. Strickel asked if he could pray with the family. Both parents agreed and and they prayed for God to heal Taylor. Later that afternoon, doctors turned off the life support that had been helping her breath since the accident. And then, something unexpected happened, the 14-year-old girl struggled to take a breath under her own power. They reconnected life support. As the day went on, Taylor’s brain activity began to increase. Taylor woke up and recovered. She graduated high school several years later.
