'Doctors said I'd be a vegetable but I woke up!'

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He's famous for his exposés of the seedy side of LA life, interviewing everyone from porn stars to pet obsessives in a bid to shine a light on the parts of Hollywood where the cameras don't go.

Now Louis Theroux has turned his attentions to a completely different part of LA life - the dying - and unearthed an incredible survival story in the process.

When Theroux first met Langston, 22, he was in a coma and not expected to survive. But 37 days later and in the face of overwhelming odds of a million to one, the college athlete woke up.

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Simi Valley running back Langston Jackson once had the world by the tail. A star athlete growing up and a multi-sport star at Simi Valley High, Jackson found himself struggling not just to win an athletic contest but rather a fight for his life after going into a coma in rehab in late March just four short months ago and nearly dying.
A smart, popular kid, Jackson wouldn't seem likely to fall prey to the drug that landed him in rehab -heroin- a drug that once epitomized the 70's junkie but the powerfully addictive and destructive drug has made a comeback in recent years, often in totally unexpected places like Simi Valley.

Former Simi Valley coach and current Chaminade Prep (West Hills, CA) athletic director Todd Borowsky knows Jackson and his family well and was as shocked as anyone with the road Jackson found himself on that nearly led to his death.

"I think it's just one of those cyclical things that individual communities sometimes go through with different drugs," said Borowski. "Who knows what leads to it?

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1. Neurology is where you see the miracles

I took care of one from ICU through rehab in nursing school. I was the first one to notice she was tracking, even though the docs had written her off as vegetative, only the brain stem still functioning. By rehab, she was conscious and talking and needed the most help with motor skills. She had a wicked sense of humor, almost as twisted as my own, so I really enjoyed the experience.

While false hope was an ongoing problem for many families, there was the occasional patient who defied all odds and woke up after most of the swelling had gone down.

We called them miracles because, like the placebo effect, they were nothing for anyone to count on happening.