Miracle Kid
The Seventeen-Year-Old Newborn
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I wake up in a room that is strange to me. Everything in my mind is groggy, my eyes aren’t focusing, and nothing makes sense. I search for my mother who I can hear crying profusely. I looked around the room trying to make sense of the noises and bodies around me. My friends, and family, all looked as sad as I’d ever seen them. This was just another day, right? Morning. I’d woken from a night of sleep into this awkward moment. But if it was just another day, why were they all here staring at me? I keep scanning the room trying to make sense of it all. I had tubes everywhere. There’s one, there’s another, there’s one going into my stomach filled with some sort of brown liquid.
This is right around the time where I start to believe I have just woken at my friend’s beach house in Maine. For whatever reason, there really is no rational explanation; I simply thought I had woken in Maine. And with this thought, more questions flood my mind. How did I get in Maine? Yesterday I was home in Leominster, Mass. Today I’m in Maine? Why is my mother in Maine, sitting by the window crying?
Then the peculiar hallucinations. I can feel the bed trying to suck me in, almost as if it was eating me alive. The harder I try to free myself from the evil hunger of the bed, the more it sucks me in. I am sick of being in this bed and I want out. Every time I try to get out, I can’t. The whole left side of my body will not cooperate, as if the left side is not receiving signals from my brain to move.I start to yell and scream. I’m yelling for help from everyone in the room, but for some reason they do not help. I yell and yell and yell. They don’t seem to see me lying here, being devoured, screaming for their attention. No one answers my call. It is as almost like they cannot understand what I am saying. My mouth is hard to open; it feels like something is restricting it from opening wide or at all.
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Zach Gauvin was a junior in high school who had it all—star of the football team, a beautiful girlfriend he adored, and a terrible drinking problem. Miracle Kid tells the story of his near fatal accident and how, at the age of seventeen, he had to learn how to live all over again.
A high school all-star athlete, Gauvin wakes one day to find that his world has been turned upside down. He has been involved in a serious car accident and has received a traumatic brain injury. He wakes after being in a coma for a month. Now, he must relearn how to do everyday things that most people take for granted. He must learn how to walk, talk, and use his left hand all over again.
He beats all odds and recovers, fights through many hardships, and accomplishes things people—including the doctors—never thought would be possible. Along the way, he becomes an advocate for people with brain injuries, seeking to pass along the things that he has learned to others in similar situations. Miracle Kid hopes to inspire everyone to fight hard when things get tough—against all odds.
About the Author
Zachary D. Gauvin currently a car salesman in Sarasota, FL has a bachelor’s degree in journalism with a minor in political science from the University of Massachusetts–Amherst. Zachary was born in Fitchburg, MA, grew up in Leominster, MA but currently resides in South Florida. Zachary went to PitchFest 2013 in Las Vegas to pitch his book as a movie to T.V. and movie representatives. Be the first out of your friends to like the Miracle Kid Facebook page and stay up to date with the current news and notes from Zachary and his book. You can also follow him on twitter @Zgauvin15.