A 30-year-old Florida man who was once so close to death in a 244-day coma that doctors wanted to harvest his organs survived the ordeal – but was struck and killed by a pickup truck .
Drew Cohen was just days short of his 23rd birthday in 2017 when he was involved in a motorcycle accident that put him in a deep coma with brain damage, only to miraculously wake up eight months later. WTLV-TV News on Monday.
“They were harvesting his organs,” his mother, Yolanda Osborne Cohen, told the newspaper. It was because of my faith that gave me the courage to speak up and back off and tell them that “you don't get a toenail or an eyelash.”
She said her son was even brain dead at one point, but she didn't lose hope New York Post reports.
Drew was sent home still in a coma – until his mother's faith was miraculously rewarded.
One day he told his startled mother, “Yeah, Mom, I'm fine.” “I love you mum.”
After years of grueling rehabilitation, when Drew started walking again, he was called a modern-day miracle.
The miracle came to a tragic end Friday when Drew was hit by a pickup truck while walking on Collins Road in Jacksonville around 5:30 a.m., the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said.
The driver, who told police he didn't see Drew, pulled over and called 911, but it was too late. He was killed at the scene. WLTV-TV said.
Despite her heartache, Osborne Cohen said she was grateful to have spent seven years with her son.
“God honored my request and I'm not angry. I'm not angry. I'm at peace,” he told the outlet. “I'm seven years old and like Hezekiah, who turned his face to the wall, I remember sitting on the hospital bed.” I sat down and said to myself: “Thy will be done.”
She said she believes her son is now in heaven and no longer suffering.
“Drew is healed, walking and not struggling to keep his balance,” she said. “He probably has his arm up so high they're saying, 'Thank you, Jesus!' Drew probably has a football in one hand and a Bible in the other.
This article was originally published in the New York Post and is reproduced with permission.
