Boy “comes back to life” after parents sign papers to donate his organs

The family says for the next several days, Trenton was on life support and barely breathing. Reindl says she was approached by doctors to make a difficult decision. She and Trenton’s father signed the papers to donate his organs.

“Five kids needed organs that matched him,” said Reindl. “It was unfair to keep bringing him back, because it was just damaging his organs even more.”

A day before doctors were going to take him off life suprport, Trenton started showing small signs of cognition. He began breathing on his own and woke up speaking full sentences, his mother wrote on a Facebook fundraising page.

He believes he was in heaven while he was gone. “I was in an open field walking straight,” said Trenton. “There’s no other explanation but God. There’s no other way. Even doctors said it.”

Slowly but surely, Trenton is making strides beyond what anyone expected, but it’s not without a struggle. He’s lost 50 pounds, and deals with nerve pain and seizures daily. [He has had three brain surgeries and will have another procedure to reconnect the missing piece of his skull.] Despite all that, this kid’s still got a great sense of humor.