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Jul 6, 2023

Brain Injury Survivor Reunites with Neurosurgeon After 17 Years

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Michael CossIn 2006, Michael Coss and his family were traveling the Coquihalla highway when their van left the road. Michael sustained a traumatic brain injury.

Michael was fortunate to have tremendous family support and to fall under the care of Dr. Jean-Francois Chevalier in Kamloops. Dr. Chevalier gave the family a grim prognosis and recommended Michael be transferred back to the lower mainland to be closer to his wife and children. Michael’s parents also relocated from Quebec to British Columbia to help with his care.

Years later, after enduring intensive rehabilitation, including physical therapy, occupational therapy, and speech therapy, and against all odds, Michael is doing amazing. He declared to his dad some time ago that he wanted to return to Kamloops one day and meet Dr. Chevalier. Michael and his parents recently made that journey.

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Additional Articles and Videos

To view the Coss family video in Friends & Family section of  The Journey Ahead, click here.

To view Michael’s poster in The Faces of Brain Injury series, click here.

 

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