 We received this phone call from my son's phone, but it wasn't my son. It wasn't Mike. It was a nurse who actually called us from the scene and advised us that Mike had been in a motorcycle accident. We got a call from my comm indicating that there had been a motorcycle accident and that the motorcyclist had collided with multiple mailboxes and then had been thrown about a hundred feet from the motorcycle. The paramedics had rushed there, put a breathing tube in, put some IVs in, and then transported him to the hospital. His CT showed a severe head injury. He had some multiple areas of bleeding in the brain, as well as some sobriacnoid hemorrhage, as well as cervical fracture. So we did a procedure called the ventriculostomy, where a hole is put into the skull and through the hole we put a small catheter. And through the catheter, we can measure the pressures of the brain and also if the pressures are high, we can relieve some of the spinal fluid and mitigate that high pressure. We were concerned about his prognosis, whether or not he would frankly make it, and then if he did make it, what kind of neurological problems he would have. The first few weeks in the ICU, he was unconscious. Due to his injuries, we had to keep him pretty sedated. We weren't really able to have any interactions with him until we were good four weeks in when we were finally able to have him come out of that coma. Unfortunately, Michael had a very bad pneumonia and that pneumonia was a struggle for all of us. We had to perform what's called a tracheostomy on him, which is where the tube that's in his mouth, which helps him get oxygenation and ventilation, had to be replaced to the one where it's surgical into his neck directly. The following week, things were not getting any better. He required this special pruning bed to see if he would make any difference. Once a patient is that sick, and they require that type of bed, they become very unstable. In order to get them to that point, you know, you need to keep them sedated on medications, chemically paralyzed, so they don't move and fight the ventilator and just can take what we're giving them to help oxygenate him, basically. During the time I was taking care of him, it was unsure what he was going to do. And then I came back around and I couldn't believe he was off the ventilator. He was awake. I knew when I saw him in that state that he was going to have a great recovery. Young people have the capacity to make these recoveries. Had he been older, you know, the outcome might have been quite different. I think definitely age, health status has a big deal, and I think the intensive care that he got in the surgical ICU makes a big difference. A team approach to care from the trauma room, ICU and Three North. The attendings that were working with Mike throughout his whole stay were just, they were go-getters. They wouldn't give up. They were exercising every possibility and every test that was available to them. The nursing staff that I work with, and the physician assistants, and the surgeons, absolutely everybody is such a solid team. Everyone knows the next step of their co-workers and I think it makes a really big difference. Every time there were blood gases taken, I wanted to know what those numbers were and I charted everything. She would jot down notes. She would ask questions. She really added value to rounds and she was an extraordinary and a full member of the team. Their care that Mike received at Hackensack University Medical Center was second to none. The respect with which the doctors and nurses treated one another, treated Michael, treated the family, the friends, was unsurpassed. From what I hear, they didn't know what deficits I was going to have if I was going to be able to walk, talk, eat, think right, incredible as an understatement. I don't even have words for it. It was a miracle. They did bring me back to life.