'Splain this one Atheists...

[Seth]

'It was the hand of God': 'Brain-dead' girl who was pulled off life support AWAKES from coma after chiropractor's prayer session and makes full recovery

Taylor Hale, then 14, suffered traumatic brain injury when she fell off hood of car while horsing around with friends in 2011
She spent a week in medically induced come to help her brain heal, but she suffered a brain hemorrhage
Doctors declared Taylor brain dead and took her off life support, but hours later she woke up
Right before Taylor came out of coma, a devout family friend visited her and prayed for her recovery
Jeff Stickel, a chiropractor, laid his hand on Taylor's neck while praying with family
Hale, now 17, will be graduating high school Monday

By Snejana Farberov For Dailymail.com

Published: 11:07 EST, 14 May 2015 | Updated: 14:35 EST, 14 May 2015

When Taylor Hale was declared brain dead in September 2011 after a terrible accident, the 14-year-old girl's parents could hardly imagine she would ever wake up, let alone walk in her graduation ceremony.

But come Monday, the 17-year-old Waukee High School senior will don her cap and gown and ascend the stage at Knapp Center in De Moines, Iowa, as part of the graduating class of 2015 to accept her hard-fought diploma.

Hale and her family are painfully aware how close she came to missing that special moment, along with the rest of her life.
In September 11, Taylor Hal,e then 14, fell off the hood of a car and suffered an irreversible brain injury.
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Against all odds, she recovered and was able to attend her senior prom last month
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Comeback kid: In 2011, Taylor Hale, then 14 (left), had an accident and suffered a brain injury. Against all odds, she recovered and was able to attend her senior prom last month (right)
Fateful night: After a football game in September 2011, Hale was hanging out with friends in this Waukee, Iowa, neighborhood when she fell off the hood of a car while horsing around and hit her head on the pavement
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Fateful night: After a football game in September 2011, Hale was hanging out with friends in this Waukee, Iowa, neighborhood when she fell off the hood of a car while horsing around and hit her head on the pavement

On the night of September 11, 2011, Taylor was hanging out with friends after a football game when one of them said he had to go.

Hale, then 14 years old, and another girl playfully hopped on the hood of his car to stop him from leaving.

When the boy unwittingly put the vehicle in reverse, Hale and her friend were thrown to the ground. While the other girl escaped unharmed, Taylor banged her head against the pavement and lost conciseness, reported Des Moines Register.
Point of no return: Hale spent the next seven days in a medically induced coma, until on September 17 she suffered what was described as an irreversible brain hemorrhage
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Point of no return: Hale spent the next seven days in a medically induced coma, until on September 17 she suffered what was described as an irreversible brain hemorrhage

The girl was rushed to a hospital where doctors told her parents, Stacey Hennigsen and Chuck Hale, that their daughter has a traumatic brain injury.

Hale spent the next seven days in a medically induced coma to help her brain heal, but her prospects were bleak.

Then on September 17, the comatose teen suffered a brain hemorrhage that resulted in her brain partially sliding into her spinal canal - a medical 'point of no return' that is considered irreversible and almost always fatal.

Taylor's doctors informed her devastated parents that their child, who only a week ago was a lively, sociable high school freshman, was now brain dead and it was time for them to start thinking about donating her organs and making preparations for her funeral.

But a visit from a family friend seemingly changed everything.

Jeff Stickel, a chiropractor and a devout Christian, came by the hospital that afternoon telling them he felt God was calling him to help heal Taylor.

Taylor’s parents told Stickel their daughter was unconscious and there was nothing he could do for her.

Stickel asked if he could pray with the family for Taylor, and they agreed. He then placed his hand on the comatose girl's neck and asked God to spare the 14-year-old's life.

Later that day, after Stickel had departed, Hale's doctors took her off life support, but instead of flatlining the girl struggled to draw a breath on her own.

For the next several hours, Taylor, now back on life support, started showing visible signs of improvement: her brain activity picked up, her eyelids were aflutter, and for the first time in a week she was trying to talk.
Family friend Jeff Stickel, a chiropractor and a devout Christian, visited Taylor in the hospital and prayed for her recovery, placing his hand on the back of her neck
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Hours after Stickel's visit, Taylor woke up
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'Miracle' worker: Family friend Jeff Stickel, a chiropractor and a devout Christian, visited Taylor in the hospital and prayed for her recovery, placing his hand on the back of her neck. Hours later, she woke up, even though she had been taken off life support
Baby steps: Taylor spent the next several months re-learning how to do everything, from eating on her own to walking and talking
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Baby steps: Taylor spent the next several months re-learning how to do everything, from eating on her own to walking and talking

Eventually, against overwhelming odds, Taylor Hale awoke from her coma.

‘It was the hand of God at work,’ Chuck Hale told the paper. ‘That's the only thing that can explain it.’

Slowly but surely, Taylor was on the road to recovery.

She would spend the next several months re-learning how to do everything, from eating on her own to walking and talking.

‘It was just like a painful stressful recovery. But I pushed through it because you just got to do what you got to do,’ Taylor told the station KCCI.

The arduous process was not without its low points and setbacks, as Taylor struggled to regain her cognitive ability and grew frustrated because her long-term memory was gone.

She eventually returned to school, where Taylor now had to work harder than anyone else to pass tests and make her grades.
Once back in school, Taylor had to work harder than anyone else to pass tests and make her grades
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In 2013, she met her boyfriend, Jontrell
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Fighter: Once back in school, Taylor had to work harder than anyone else to pass tests and make her grades. In 2013, she met her boyfriend, Jontrell (right)
Momentous occasion: Next week, the 17-year-old Waukee High School senior will don her cap and gown and ascend the stage at Knapp Center in De Moines, Iowa, to accept her hard-fought diploma
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Momentous occasion: Next week, the 17-year-old Waukee High School senior will don her cap and gown and ascend the stage at Knapp Center in De Moines, Iowa, to accept her hard-fought diploma

She said it was especially difficult because most of the friends she had before the accident have inexplicably turned their backs on her.

But her progress, given the severity of her injury, has been tremendous: Taylor has learned to drive a car, started dating and, as of late, her childhood memories have been coming back to her in bits and pieces.

Looking back on the dramatic events of the fall of 2011, Taylor and her family are convinced that the girl cheated death because of divine intervention.

‘I'm always thankful to all the doctors and nurses and therapists who helped me get better, but God did most of the saving,’ she told the paper.

Taylor Hale plans to enroll in a community college next year and study event planning.

[Svartalf]

that's not a true story but a glurge, and a religious one at that.

[piscator]

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[JimC]

People recover from severe medical conditions all the time.

Of all the people who have an unexpected recovery from a medical condition like a coma, X% are prayed over, Y% are not.

A single anecdote is meaningless; a statistical analysis of a large enough data set is required.

Come back to me when you can cite the peer-reviewed paper, Seth...

[Strontium Dog]

When someone makes a full recovery from an amputation, then I'll give the power of prayer some credence.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I once knew a woman that had two children - aged 6 & 8 (or thereabouts) - and didn't believe in giving them sweets because of their teeth, health, etc. Anyway, one day the children were playing up something rotten and, being devout, she prayed and heard a voice from nowhere say, "Give them chocolate". She went out and bought a couple of Mars bars and gave them to her kids. They stopped misbehaving immediately. She thanked god for this.

Sounds legit. So, should I be a Rastafarian like her? Or do I call her a liar?

[piscator]

I know of a woman from a religious family that prayed for each others' safety every day. This woman was involved in an automobile accident and didn't recover.
Explain that one, theologians.

[DaveDodo007]

I know, I know, it's god. Though which one as there is over 2,500 of the fuckers.

[JimC]

I like preying...

[pErvinalia]

I can't explain it. Therefore God.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I can't explain it. Therefore God.

I can explain it. Therefore I'm god. Eat my poo atheismists!

[piscator]

INB4: "He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust alike."

How come He doesn't do it "Each to their kind" like He does with every other goddamned thing? Answer that one, theologians.

[Seth]

People recover from severe medical conditions all the time.

Indeed.

Of all the people who have an unexpected recovery from a medical condition like a coma, X% are prayed over, Y% are not.

Yes?

A single anecdote is meaningless; a statistical analysis of a large enough data set is required.

Required for what, pray tell? And it's hardly meaningless to the girl or her family and friends, or had that simple fact escaped your notice?

Come back to me when you can cite the peer-reviewed paper, Seth...

I made no claim, I specifically asked you to explain how the event cited happened. If you have critically robust scientific or medical evidence showing what caused this unusual recovery, then present it. If you don't...well...why should anyone believe you and not them?

[Seth]

I once knew a woman that had two children - aged 6 & 8 (or thereabouts) - and didn't believe in giving them sweets because of their teeth, health, etc. Anyway, one day the children were playing up something rotten and, being devout, she prayed and heard a voice from nowhere say, "Give them chocolate". She went out and bought a couple of Mars bars and gave them to her kids. They stopped misbehaving immediately. She thanked god for this.

Sounds legit. So, should I be a Rastafarian like her? Or do I call her a liar?

Depends on whether your kids are little pricks or not I guess.

[Seth]

I know of a woman from a religious family that prayed for each others' safety every day. This woman was involved in an automobile accident and didn't recover.
Explain that one, theologians.

God works in mysterious ways and not all prayers are answered, so they say.

Thanks for the red herring fallacy though, it was very amusing.

Now get on with the explanation for the OP or STFU.