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That is great - hope and prayers for a speedy full recovery!

Wonderful news. All the best to him!

Our T&Ps are with Derek and his family, we will continue to think of him in a positive light.

Great news, thoughts and prayers are with all.

Totally awesome to hear, prayer is a powerful thing and more are on the way for a speedy recovery. Hang tuff Derek, we are all pulling for ya!!!:kewl:

I read in the paper yesterday that he said to his mother that he wanted to go home :kewl:
Glad to see things are looking up for the man.
Oh and also see he is a member of the Middleboro Cobras semi-pro football team :btu:

fighting back baby :jump:
vb

Thoughts and prayers are still with him, that is awesome, gave me chills

Great news. Never give up.

He is now off the ventilator, talking, no memory loss but will have to learn to walk all over again ( possibly no more football!) but hey, his poarents will take that anyday.

It was a miracle Gentlemen, plain and simple!

And most of all, for his parents may I :thanks: all!!!

Great news. I didn't want to jump the gun while he was still touch and go, but it now seems like he's out of the woods.

Derek's a fighter. I wouldn't take odds against him playing football again.

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Just over a week ago, Scott Ashworth was picking out a cemetery plot for his only son, wondering how many weeks or years he’d be on life support as the death grip of EEE locked his body in a coma.

Turns out Derek Ashworth, a 23-year-old semi-pro football player, is as strong off the field as he is on.
In a stunning turn of events, Derek, who contracted Eastern equine encephalitis from a mosquito bite, has awakened from a six-day coma.
“As bad as he had it, typically they don’t do well. But doctors also said ‘Don’t ever give up hope. There’s always a chance for a miracle.’ If I didn’t believe in him before, we do now,” said Scott Ashworth, the Rochester fire chief.

His son walked 10 steps on Wednesday, ate pureed chicken and mashed potatoes and started talking and asking questions about the past 14 days of his hospitalization.
Yesterday, in his fifth-floor Boston Medical Center room, the wide receiver wore his Middleboro Cobras jersey and clutched a football. He sat in his wheelchair and talked on a cell phone as his girlfriend and parents looked on.

The whole story here: http://news.bostonherald.com/localRe...ticleid=154398

Keep going Derek!

That is the greatest of news. :D and "Thank You" Flap for caring enough to ask for P+T. :btu:

It was great seeing derek sitting up in bed with the football in his hands.