From a Coma to the Olympics: How an American Snowboarder Rebounded in Less Than 4 Years
Snowboarder Aaron “A.J.” Muss had been out of his medically-induced coma for just two days when he decided that it was time to leave the hospital.“I wouldn’t let them put me in a wheelchair and wheel me out,” Muss, a 23-year-old New Jersey native, tells People.
“I walked out.
I wouldn’t do it any other way.
Unfortunately I didn’t walk myself in, but I was walking myself out.”That was in April 2014.
In January of that same year, Muss had injured his shoulder during practice and had put off having surgery in order to keep