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At Christmas he was speaking with them and his sisters, Bobbi McCoy of Maple Plain and Ruth Richter of Wadena, Minn. He recognized them, talked intelligently with them and smiled with them. And then he cried with them. "I have never, ever, seen a person come back and live from that deep," said-Dr. Bruce Norback, a neurologist.

With Dr. Lex Nurenberg, an internist, Norback had treated Don Hamilton from the first days after Dr. George Nemanich performed surgery at North Memorial. "I've thought a long time about how he could have survived it alL He received excellent early care at the Park Rapids hospital and some marvelous nursing care here. At every stage where something had to be done to save him, it was done aggressively.

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He tires easily after conversation. Yet he is curious about the events of the accident day and wonders when he can get back to his job with a forklift rental company in Maple Plain, where he lives. He is a bachelor, 32, devoted to his nephews and nieces. He had been in a coma for more than a month when his sister, Bobbi, noticing movement from him, spoke his name. He didn't respond.

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"You had every right to believe from the start that even if he survived, and thattiidn't seem possible, he would vegetate the rest of his life. He was headed for a nursing home. But here we are less than two months after he looked brain dead and gone, and he may be able to retain 80 to 90 percent; use of his leg. He'll walk. He may be able to leave the hospital in five or six weeks." The night he came to North Memorial he was unconscious and unable to respond to any electronic stimuli.

It was then that the doctors spoke candidly to the family, telling the parents and sisters what probably lay ahead the next day when they examined their scans. "The family prayed that God would" show us a sign that Don wasn't brain dead," Bobbi McCoy said. "We organized a prayer chain with our friends in California, Michigan and Texas." i The! next day Hamilton opened his eyes. He was receiving continuous transfusions, bleeding out of his nose and eyes, but he was conscious. "That alone was extraordinary," Nurenberg said.

"His first-day ap-i pearance, showing the signs of brain death, was partly the result of the heavy anesthetics he had been under. But he was in terrible condition. His brain and lungs were shocked. The kidney complications developed. And yet yesterday he was responding to what he said, making intelligent insights, using the right language.

We can't say for certain there hasn't been some subtle effect on his brain, but it her when she said thev were fine: A i few days later his hunting companions, Greg and Steve White of Orono and Glen Neddemeyer of Long Lake, visited. He told them all he remem- bered of the accident. The rifle dis- i charged. He doesn't know why or how. "It splintered my leg and I screamed to let you know," he said.

11 1 "It'sallllcnnw." 'A Each day of his coma, doctors would come to his parents or sisters and tell them the only truth they knew at the time: They weren't sure each day whether he would wake up again. But on Dec. 14 he did, and at Christ American International Trading Corporation will be closing out the rest of their Scandanavian furniture mas he was preparing to celebrate the holiday with the tamily when his sister arrives over New Year's. There is nothing in the medical books that cleanly explains why it is happening. But the doctors admit that not everything in the phenomenon of life and death is covered in the medical books.

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