February 24, 2012

The Girl Who Played Basketball in a Coma: After falling into a coma caused by meningitis, a Kansas teen who played basketball would occasionally shoot baskets -- while she was still otherwise non-responsive. After her sister formed a makeshift hoop with her arms, Maggie Meier cradled a beach ball and shot it with perfect form. "I have never seen anything like it," said Meier's neurologist, Dr. William Graf. "The act of shooting a basketball must have been ingrained as one of Maggie's basic instincts -- her basketball shooting motion came back to her even before she was able to stand up or walk again."

posted by rcade to basketball at 09:02 PM - 1 comment

That's not as cool as the Kid Who Only Hit Homers, but still impressive. Oliver Sacks should write about her.

posted by rcade at 11:31 AM on February 25, 2012

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