After being hit by a drunk driver the weekend before Thanksgiving, Spokane area teen Brody Three Stars has awakened from his coma.

The Colbert teen spent much of last week in a coma but by Thanksgiving had started to open his eyes for brief periods.

“Each day he got better and spent more time awake. And now he’s able to verbalize more and he’s even pretended to swing a bat,” said Brody’s father Rio Three Stars.

Family friend Christine Brischle called the teenager’s recovery a “Thanksgiving miracle.”

On Thursday last week the family brought their turkey dinner to the hospital.

“We all wanted to be together as a family for Thanksgiving. Me and my wife, his little sister – we were there with Brody. He wasn’t awake too much. But we were together as a family,” Rio Three Stars said.

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