#1 Appreciate Your Wife
Having to stand side by side with your spouse through thick and thin is not something you can do overnight. It takes a lot of faith, patience, determination and true love to conquer this feat. It's doubly hard if one is lingering between life and death. Exactly like what happened to newlywed Matt and Danielle Davis.
#2 Matt’s Accident
Seven months after getting married, a horrifying turmoil threatens their married life when Matt Davis, 22, was involved in a shattering motorcycle accident on a Savannah, Ga., interstate, Sunday of July 2011.
The accident sent his body flying that left him with multiple major bone injuries, traumatic brain injury and in coma state. Matt was almost brain-dead and in life support, his devastated new wife Danielle, 23, was beside him everyday talking to him while holding his hand.
#3 Journey To Recovery
The doctors did everything they could do to save Matt and nine days after the accident, Danielle received the worst news in her entire life. Doctors told her, that he had only 10 percent chance of waking up.
She was advised to "pull the plug" on her husband's life support. She said, "Doctors suggested we remove him from life support and let him go, he would never wake up.They said if it was them, they'd pull the plug. That's what they'd want their family to do."
But Danielle's love for Matt prevailed. She refused to take the life of his beloved husband and let God decide for his life.
3 months into his coma, Matt was transferred to his home, where Danielle and his mother cared for him 24/7 by themselves. But one day, Danielle heard words come from Matt's lips, saying "I'm trying."
#4 After Eventually Came Out Of His Coma
Matt's accident wiped out three years of his memory. He didn't know the person in front of him was his beloved wife.
#5 Progressing Each Day
Matt has made progress every day since awaking from his deep slumber, and continues to attend therapy. "One conversation with Matt will change your life," she writes. "He has a servant's heart and a love for people. He never complains or feels anger about his circumstance," explains Danielle. "He just wants to make a difference and give hope."
