Boy With Head Trauma Suddenly Finds His Voice
Boy With Head Trauma Suddenly Finds His Voice
After suffering a brain injury in a horrible car crash, a young boy spent months in rehab but never spoke. Suddenly, one day something reconnected, and he began speaking.
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" Our national anthem has become friendly driver victory cry me. -- that's violent month. Now seen -- heard loud and proud. Mean. And yeah. I have -- And excitement of rebirth of sorts for the boy who at age ten nearly died. The crash off highway fifty near their home town of late getting killed Bradley mother and left him with severe brain trauma. Bradley would spend the next year and a half at a pediatric hospital near Oklahoma City barely moving or even making a sound often with a blank day here it. Like He knew something that's going on and I. That He had. He didn't show any expression and -- who never gave up hope for Bradley's recovery even though the odds are definitely against him but then one -- just a couple months ago right in this hallway Bradley suddenly started talking. And He just started saying like the colors that thing then. At labeling thing then by critics. This bit like Harry in them firing at it in -- and -- it is like something like more Bradley knew the name that everyone around him. At the world crude hit and He at night -- Larry and -- I -- well I had from an almost vegetative state Bradley had woken up. People and places that for months that -- no reaction from the boy now seemed familiar. Last year I won't -- and."
" He may have been receiving a lot more than we could see. Because He couldn't demonstrate what He was what He was understanding to."
" Bradley doctor believes that after the car crash the boy's injured brain could still taking in information but couldn't act on it. Many months that healing allowed the brain to rewire itself."
" Nerve connections to grow at a rate of about a centimeter a week you know so pretty short distance. And then they have to become functional and they have to get used to interact."
" The union and very good brat that recovery also woke that Bradley must go now learning to walk uses -- again. He's also learning to use his tongue and swallowed that someday Bradley can feed him now. Gold hit just a short time ago it seemed impossible. An air cockpit but today."
" I cannot believe it. I cannot believe it it was just totally amazing."
" Bradley family is already planning to bring him back to late in next month where he'll reunite with his two younger Brothers into the public school. The first time in 2009. He'll be home. And we just had. And in your hair blue block."
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