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seven years ago, two minnesota teen endure different traumas brain injuries Within days of each other and were in a coma at St. Paul’s Region Hospital. Now, they are engaged.
In autumn 2018, 18-year-old Zach Zerembinski was admitted Brain Suffered injury while playing football for Hill-Murray High School. Nine days later, 16-year-old Isabelle Richard was hospitalized after a car accident on the way to work at her grocery store.
zach was in one Coma For about a week, and then attended a press conference about his incident and hospital care. The interview happened to be playing on the TV in Isabelle’s hospital room while she was still in a coma.
Isabelle’s mother, Esther, went into the hospital lobby and spoke to Zach after he was interviewed, giving the family much-needed hope.
“He was telling us she was going to be OK,” said Esther. dog 11,
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Esther said she wants her daughter to meet Zach after she comes out of her coma. A few days later, he did so, and the pair smiled as they posed for a photo together, although initially nothing of the sort happened.
“I said some kind words to Isabelle, and that was it for six years,” Zach told the news outlet.
However, Esther and Zach’s mother, Tracy, kept in touch through Facebook over the years.
“I said, ‘Zach, come on, why don’t you invite Isabel to lunch?'” Tracy recalled. “But he wasn’t ready yet.”
But that changed six years after their injuries when the family gathered for dinner and the pair chatted.
“I asked her for her phone number,” Zach said.
The pair soon went on a date and the rest is history.
Recently, the couple returned to Regions Hospital to record a special episode of their “Hope in Healing Podcast,” though Zach used the visit to ask Isabelle a big question.
“Will you marry me?” he asked as the couple’s family and former carers looked on emotionally.
Isabel said yes and celebrated the special moment with the people who had saved her life less than a decade ago. Tracy cried “tears of joy,” while Esther said, “We are blessed to have a front row seat to his miracle.”
Early in their treatment, both Jack and Isabel had parts of their skulls removed to relieve swelling of their brains.
Richard said, “They’re opposite sides of our brains so it’s like we complement each other. Things I’m bad at, he’s good at.”