A New Jersey family is counting their blessings after the youngest of their three children almost didn’t survive a horrific car accident. He was in a coma and, for a while, it was day-to-day.
"Of all the days that there could be, this is probably one of the best days ever," Donna Lewis said. "I was very emotional."
Andrew was driving along College Drive, not too far from his home in Clementon, in Camden County, around 4 in the afternoon, on New Year’s Eve. His car hydroplaned on wet road, spinning into oncoming traffic, before being hit by another car.Dad Ryk added, "Saw him a few hours before, now he’s lying in a hospital bed and will he wake up? That was pretty tough.""Once he did wake up, he had a four-word vocabulary for the first four days," Ryk stated.
The 18-year-old persevered for weeks following the accident, exceeding doctors expectations in the hospital and at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation.
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