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<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>Willing himself to pull through, a young father-of-two makes miraculous recovery after his head was severed from his body internally</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>Heath Baker, from Cullman County, Alabama is talking, moving his limbs, even standing on his own, than two weeks after what should have been a life ending auto crash</strong></span><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong> </strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>Baker, 30, was on his way to work, April 21 when his truck flipped over twice on a county highway</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>His neck was severed from his body internally, he broke 13 ribs, pelvis, a hip joint and fractured his spine, h</strong></span><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>e also suffered a ruptured spleen and collapsed lung</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>Doctors at UAB hospital reattached his neck and stitched his body together</strong></span></h6>
<h6><span style="color:#1f0202;"><strong>He attributes his miraculous and speedy recovery to experiencing flashing images of his wife &#8211; &#8220;my angel&#8221;, while he was &#8216;under&#8217;</strong></span></h6>
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<h6 class="sd-news-main-title"><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-176901" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker1.png" alt="Heath Baker1" width="657" height="429" />Heath Baker meets Dr. Sakthivel Rajaram, the surgeon who reattached he his head to his body as he prepares to leave UAB hospital</strong></h6>
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<div class="sd-news-story-byline"> An Alabama man who was internally decapitated after being ejected from his truck late April is back home. is talking, moving his limbs, even standing on his own, than two weeks after what should have been a life ending auto crash.</div>
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<p>Heath Baker, from Cullman County, Alabama is back home after spending less than two weeks in the hospital. Baker was discharged from UAB Hospital, have made incredible recovery from the injuries he sustained in the severe auto crash.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-176900" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker2.png" alt="Heath Baker2" width="688" height="434" /><strong>The strong willed &#8216;miraculous&#8217; survivor stands unaided, in less than two weeks after suffering internal decapitation</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-176984" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-bakers-flipped-truck2.png" alt="Heath Baker's flipped truck2" width="716" height="643" />On April 21, 2017 Baker&#8217;s truck somersaulted as he was on his way to work, early in the morning</strong></h6>
<p>The 30-year-old Cullman County resident suffered horrific injuries &#8211; breaking 13 ribs, his pelvis and a hip joint, fracturing his spine, rupturing spleen and collapsing a lung.<br />
Baker is described as a walking miracle because the internal decapitation alone, a condition where the skull is severed from the spinal column without breaking the skin, should have killed him.<br />
The father-of-two was on his way to work early in the morning on April 21, when his truck ran off County Road 222 shortly before 5:30 a.m. and flipped several times, throwing him from the vehicle, Alabama State Troopers said.<br />
He was flown to UAB Hospital where he was taken into emergency surgery to remove his spleen and then reattached his skull to his spine, and he&#8217;s been medically sedated since, Barnett said.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-176987" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-bakers-flipped-truck1.png" alt="Heath Baker's flipped truck1" width="639" height="529" />Baker&#8217;s truck flipped over twice leaving him with what would be considered terminal injuries</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-176895" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker7.jpg" alt="Heath Baker7" width="600" height="800" /><br />
<strong>The doctors at UAB hospital reattached his head, removed the spleen and surgically repaired broken bones and damaged organs</strong></h6>
<p>Records indicate that Seventy percent of people who suffer this type of injury die immediately, and only about 15 percent of the survivors, recover<br />
make it out of the emergency room and even less survive the hospital stay to go home. While it&#8217;s still very early in Baker&#8217;s recovery, his will to live seems apparent.<br />
Dr. Sakthivel Rajaram, the UAB surgeon who operated on Baker says he&#8217;s shocked to see such a speedy recovery.<br />
Baker on his part, attributes his record recovery pace to his wife&#8217;s presence throughout his short recovery.<br />
&#8220;She&#8217;s my angel. I can remember times of me just coming through it and just seeing her face and just knowing that she was there. I think that&#8217;s one thing that helped me pull through,&#8221; Baker said.</p>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-176915" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker-and-flashing-image-of-his-wife.png" alt="Heath Baker and flashing image of his wife" width="733" height="364" />Heath Baker attributes his speedy recovery to reoccurring flashing images of his wife while he was hanging on to life</strong></h6>
<h6><img class="alignnone wp-image-176903" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker-and-his-wife.png" alt="Heath Baker and his wife" width="702" height="620" /><br />
<strong>Heath Baker and wife whom he calls &#8216;my angel&#8217;</strong></h6>
<p>It was the flashes of his wife&#8217;s image between the dark periods that brought him through, he said.<br />
&#8220;They told my wife that more than likely I&#8217;m not going to make it and if I do make it, you know I could have no brain you know, I could be brain-dead or I could be paralyzed from the neck down,&#8221; Baker said.<br />
But he beat the odds and finally met the man who put him back together for the first time.<br />
Baker said, &#8220;It&#8217;s very nice to meet you.&#8221;<br />
Dr. Sakthivel Rajaram with the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery said, &#8220;Ya I&#8217;m so happy.&#8221;<br />
Doctor Rajaram who reattached Bakers head to his neck says he&#8217;s surprised to see the recovery going so well.<br />
&#8220;I&#8217;d say I&#8217;ve probably never seen a patient recover this quick considering the amount of injuries he had,&#8221; Dr. Rajaram said.</p>
<h6><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-176899" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker-and-dr-dr-sakthivel-rajaram1.png" alt="Heath baker and Dr Dr. Sakthivel Rajaram1" width="568" height="372" /><br />
<strong>Heath Baker and Dr. Sakthivel Rajaram are full of cheer as the patient leaves UAB hospital</strong></h6>
<h6><strong><img class="alignnone wp-image-176897" src="https://konniemoments.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/heath-baker5.jpg" alt="Heath Baker5" width="580" height="774" /><br />
Heath Baker on his way home to continue with his convalescence</strong></h6>
<p>And for an injury with such a high mortality rate, the fact that Baker is even able to get around is incredible.<br />
&#8220;You can imagine only thirty patients survive out of the hundred,&#8221; Dr. Rajaram said.<br />
Baker said all he needed was a chance, no matter how small it was.<br />
&#8220;I just need a half a chance and I think I can do whatever it takes. My faith is pretty strong, I just need half a chance and I&#8217;m a firm believer that if it&#8217;s not my time, it ain&#8217;t my time,&#8221; Baker said.<br />
The family set up a <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/w5yjx2-heaths-recovery">gofundme</a> page to help offset the medical bills.</p>
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Alabama man, Heath Baker, who suffered internally decapitation in auto crash, standing, walking and talking in just two weeks
