Danielle Josey Davis had been told her comatose husband had little chance of living after a motorcycle accident, but she stood by him for years.
Here is Danielle Josey Davis with her husband Matt.
Five years ago – and seven months after the pair married – a motorcycle accident left him on life support and in a coma, according to ABC News.
The broadcaster reported that doctors told Danielle to let him die because there was a 90% chance he would never wake up,
She told ABC: "They said that if it was them they would pull the plug – that's what they would want their family to do."
But she chose to keep him on life support and eventually brought Matt back to her mother's house. According to ABC she told her mother: "If he's going to be a body in a bed, let's give him something to look at."
Three months after the accident, he woke up.
She'd cared for Matt 24 hours a day while he was in a coma for three months, during which time she had, according to Cosmopolitan, "changed his feeding tube, physically turned him over in bed to prevent bedsores, and gave him sponge baths and his 20 medications every single day."
When he eventually woke, he said: "I'm trying."
She tracked his progress on her website. Her first update, in July 2011, reads: "Recently, Matt began to slightly move different limbs, mostly his left arm and leg. A few days ago, Matt began to open his eyes. He is not yet awake, but he blinks his eyes often. This is where we are now."
Danielle told ABC that she knew his personality was intact when he was asked what food he wanted and replied with his favourite, a "buffalo chicken wrap from Cheddar's" – she told the broadcaster: "We all whipped around because we all knew what he said."
Matt doesn't remember Danielle before the 2010 accident.
But earlier this month, she wrote about how Matt has just taken his first steps by himself. She wrote: "Matt just knew he could and needed to do it. He said baby, can you stand in front of me for a second. I knew what he wanted and foolishly told him he wouldn’t be able to do it because he just can’t right now. I hate to see him disappointed. I stood there and he did it!!"
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