Coma victim's incredible achievement 12 days after family told 'he may never wake up'

James Hall was rushed to infirmary successful Leeds aft suffering 2 back-to-back seizures that saw him gaffe into an 18-hour coma and doctors warned his household 4 unspeakable outcomes

A bodybuilder competed onstage conscionable days aft waking from a coma successful a marvel defying doctors' claims helium whitethorn ne'er aftermath up.

James Hall was inches from decease but roseate to the signifier bronzed and shredded conscionable 12 days aft coming around. The 32-year-old flexed and posed successful the British Natural Bodybuilding Federation's Northern (BNBF) Championship contempt being unconscious successful a high-dependency ward conscionable 2 weeks earlier.

James, from Moortown, Leeds, had been grooming for the contention for a twelvemonth erstwhile helium suffered 2 seizures successful the aforesaid time backmost connected August 13, during what's known by competitors arsenic "peak week" successful the nonstop run-up, erstwhile fare and fittingness regimes are astatine their strictest. contempt his epilepsy, the quality expert had been drinking ample amounts of decaffeinated java and h2o - with the predominant toilet trips depleting his assemblage of captious electrolytes.

Feeling horrendous, James past cycled to his gym to train, pushing himself implicit the last hurdle successful a bid to honour the "dying wish" of his granddad, Leeds United fable Bill Fotherby. James told Leeds Live helium past suffered an epileptic acceptable aft training, with the gym proprietor driving him to a adjacent wellness centre successful a panic.

"To this day, I person nary representation of what happened during that agelong of period," helium said. Worried wellness unit transferred James to adjacent St James' Hospital, wherever doctors told his household he'd suffered 2 back-to-back seizures successful a "gravely serious" crook of events.

James' sodium levels were astatine perchance fatal levels of 116mg, and doctors said determination was a anticipation helium whitethorn ne'er aftermath up oregon could adjacent suffer his memory. "I shouldn't beryllium present today," helium said. "The likelihood of maine being capable to past that from what the doctors were alluding to is ridiculous."

In a miracle, James woke the pursuing greeting feeling better. While forced to scrap his contention helium was readying for that weekend, giving himself 12 days to retrieve and hole for his amusement successful Manchester, adjacent taking clip disconnected for a wedding.

"It was wonderful. Thankfully, I don't get shy connected stage. I person nary worries astir stepping successful beforehand of ample audiences and presenting. I've done it for creation and aggregate things. Just the information I'd adjacent made it to the amusement connected the day, I didn't person a attraction successful the world. There were radical I was competing with who were doubly the size of me. They were huge! I felt similar a small kid adjacent to them, but I had travel from decease to beryllium determination that time erstwhile the likelihood were against me, truthful I honestly conscionable didn't care. I was truthful elated and happy."