A young man in a coma was unwittingly poised to give the ultimate this holiday season--his life, and with it, his organs. Instead, his mother became the recipient of the ultimate gift: his sudden recovery.
"Nobody could ever give me a better Christmas present than this--ever, ever, ever," his mother, Susan Regan, told ABC News this week.
Sam Schmid, a junior at the University of Arizona, suffered severe brain damage and broken femurs in a five-car accident in October that killed his friend and roommate.
ABC reports that Schmid was airlifted to the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, where renowned surgeon Dr. Robert Spetzler (who trained the doctor who operated on U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords after she was shot in the head earlier this year) performed emergency surgery.
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