maggie-meier

Teenage Girl Continues to Shoot Hoops While In a Coma

Leah Beckmann · 02/22/12 12:20PM

Maggie Meier, who went into a coma after suffering a seizure in 2008, was somehow still able to shoot a beach ball through a hoop while in her, to use a Margaret Atwood-ism, fallow state. Meier had played basketball for years, and doctors believe that the motion of shooting a basket was so deeply ingrained in her that she was able to do it without thinking.