Coa, Meier in Hospital after falls

[GPK]

http://www.drf.com/news/eibar-coa-ta...iding-accident

[justindew]

Sounds like this story has a chance for a much happier ending than many may have expected. Awesome.

[Kasept]

Coa walks to join friends at golf benefit
By Mike Welsch

Jockey Eibar Coa proved miracles can happen when he arrived at the Woodmont Country Club in Tamarac, Fla., late Tuesday afternoon to attend a benefit golf tournament held in his honor.

Coa, who was left nearly paralyzed throughout his body after sustaining a fracture of the C4 vertebra in his neck in a spill that took place pulling up after the finish of the sixth race at Gulfstream Park on Feb. 18, brought many of those in attendance at the golf tournament to tears when he got out of his wheelchair and walked to join his many friends and colleagues from the jocks' room for a group picture.

[Sightseek]

That is awesome.

[Riot]

Wow, great news. Thanks for the update.

[Alan07]

Eibar Coa to leave hospital
Eibar Coa, who suffered a broken neck in a spill following the conclusion of the sixth race here on Feb. 18 that initially left him with limited movement from the neck down, will be released from Memorial Regional Hospital South on Thursday.

Coa will leave Memorial Regional “walking,” according to a press release distributed by the hospital on Wednesday.

[TouchOfGrey]

Coa Walks 'Miraculously' Out of Hospital

“In all my years of neurosurgery never have I seen a case, an event, this impressive and this miraculous. To have a man who’s completely paralyzed from the neck down—a complete quadriplegic—and then be able to get up and walk is an extremely rare event,” said Dr. Scott Berta, the Memorial neurosurgeon who performed two surgeries to stabilize and repair Coa’s injury. “And do to it so quickly on top of it is pretty much unheard of.”