Stories and Essays: Awoken

Mike Williams, a De La Salle high school graduate and former NBA player, was shot eight times at an Atlanta nightclub in November of 2009. The last thing he remembers was being taken to the emergecy room. When he awoke he not only realized he'd been in a coma for two months, but that he had been paralyzed from the waist down. This is his struggle as he tries to learn how to walk again and live a new life.