Lightning struck 15-year-old in the chest and he was dead for an hour – His limbs were opened and he is learning to walk again

A adolescent he literally escaped “grace’s teeth” after hitting him lightning strike on the beach, making them clinical dead for an hour, while in order to survive the doctors opened his limbs and now he is learning to walks from beginning.

In more detail, Mr 15 year old Jacob Brewer in July 2020 he was on Siesta Key Beach, Florida with his family when a storm hit. They then began to pack up to leave, until an explosion was heard and the bathers saw the young man had been struck by lightning in the chest, according to the nypost.com.

“The storm started to blow so we started packing up us to leave,” said his mother Barbara Brewer and added that then an explosion was heard. “I turned to look at my son and screamed, ‘Oh my God, what happened?’ My daughter saw what happened and said that Jacob was struck by lightning,” he said.

“He was not carrying any metal and he wasn’t the only person on the beach. Simply lightning struck him in the chest“, he said and noted that “I saw him start foaming at the mouth, his eyes rolled back and turned purple».

So, quickly the rest of the bathers gathered around him -among them an agent of the prosecution, where they performed CPR on the teenager for about an houruntil the ambulance arrived and took him to the hospital.

The “miracle” and the difficult recovery

Initially, he was transferred to the intensive care unit of Tampa General Hospital for two weeks, then moved to a more specialized hospital in Chicago, after he had also suffered spinal cord injury and stroke. “They had to open his arms and legs up to his elbows and knees to save them, because they were so swollen by the lightning. He barely made it,” his mother said.

However, the problems didn’t stop there for Jacob, as Barbara noted that “there’s a lot of scar tissue, because his body had become so hot that the lightning killed some nerves because it entered his chest and through his spine reached his feet.” “He has a mark on his chest and a few other marks on his body, because the lightning was so hot that it burned his skin. We realized that not only he couldn’t use his legs, but he couldn’t control his bladder or bowels. He was completely paralyzed,” she said afterwards.

Thus, she herself came in contact with many doctors from the US, until now identified the Cyberdyne HAL treatment -the only one on the other side of the Atlantic-, which is a hybrid auxiliary limb, which detects bioelectrical signals from the brain and is worn by the patient, whenever he does physiotherapy.

Now, the young man he has turned 17 and is fighting to fully recover, since due to his condition he is learning to walk from scratch. At the same time, his family is raising money through GoFund for his treatments and hopes for a better tomorrow.