SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - It’s been eight months since Cooper Roy from Fair Grove, Mo., almost lost his life in a deadly head-on crash on U.S. 65. On Thursday, Roy walked back into Mercy Hospital, where he spent over three months in recovery.

“Walking down the hallway, it was a bit of a take-back,” Roy said. “Once I got to see my nurses, it just warmed me up. I enjoyed seeing them a lot. It was like seeing family.”

Roy was greeted back with open arms. His nurse, Abbi Meier, calls his recovery ‘a miraculous gift from God.’

“In the medical world, it’s amazing to see something you probably thought couldn’t happen. Now he’s walking, now his wounds are healing, he’s talking, and eating. These are things that when he was here, he wasn’t doing,” Meier said.

Roy is still going through physical

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