A 30-year-old Florida man who nearly died after spending 244 days in a coma and doctors wanted to harvest his organs survived the ordeal but was hit and killed by a pickup truck.
In 2017, just days before his 23rd birthday, Drew Cohn was involved in a motorcycle accident that left him in a deep coma with a traumatic brain injury, but miraculously woke up eight months later. WTLV-TV News Report Saturday.
“They were going to harvest my son’s organs,” his mother, Yolanda Osborne Cone, told the outlet. “My faith gave me the courage to speak out and to tell them, ‘You can’t have my fingernails or my eyelashes.'”
She said her son was considered brain dead at one point, but she never gave up hope.
Drew was sent home in a coma, but his mother’s faith was miraculously rewarded.
“Yes, Mom, I’m OK,” he reportedly told his astonished mother one day. “I love you, Mom.”
After years of rigorous rehabilitation, Drew It’s been called a modern miracle When he started walking again.
That 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., according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
The driver told police he didn’t see Drew and pulled over and called 911, but it was too late. Drew was pronounced dead at the scene, according to WLTV-TV.
Despite her heartbreak, Osborne Cone said she is grateful for the seven years she was able to spend with her son.
“I’m not angry, I’m not upset, I’m not angry, I’m at peace because God heard my prayers,” she told the outlet. “I remember spending seven years sitting at Drew’s hospital bed like Hezekiah with his face to the wall and saying to myself, ‘Your will be done.'”
She said she believes her son is now in heaven and no longer suffering.
“Drew is recovering, he’s walking, he’s not having trouble keeping his balance,” she said. “He’ll probably have his arms up in the air saying, ‘Thank you, Jesus!’ Drew will probably have a football in one hand and a Bible in the other.”
