This is just an explanation of what happened to Sam the night of the accident...recent posts are below:

Before the accident Sam was a pre-med freshman at Michigan State University. He had spent the previous July-November in Boston doing research at Harvard in an effort to find a cure for his sister's rare disease (see the catagory "Sam's Research Before the Accident") and had just started at MSU in January.   On Valentines Day 2005 he  was driving home from getting a chest xray to check for pneumonia.  When he was three miles from his mom and dad's house he fell asleep and drove off the road at 40 mph.  His car finally stopped only after becoming airborne and hitting two trees.  When the paramedics arrived he was still breathing, but just barely.  This blog tells of Sam's life after the accident and the struggles and miracles that followed.