But the day before doctors were set to pull the plug on his life support systems in March, Trenton started showing signs of mental cognition, according to WALA, a FOX affiliate in Alabama. Trenton now says he went to heaven before he was brought back to Earth. They told me the oxidation {oxygen depravation} problems would be so bad to his brain, that he would be a vegetable if he even made it.” 
 
 The family says for the next several days, Trenton was on life support and barely breathing. "There's no other explanation but God. There's no other way. Reindl says she was approached by doctors to make a difficult decision. Trenton's March accident came when he was flipped in a cart being pulled by a utility vehicle. “I hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything," Trenton told the station. Rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery with seven skull fractures, Trenton "died 4 times (and) one time for 15 min. Doctors "said the next time his heart stopped they had to let him die...or I could sign a paper to donate his organs to save five other kids... so I signed it...
– Things were looking so dire for 13-year-old Trenton McKinley of Mobile, Ala., that his parents signed the papers to donate his organs to five other kids. But a day before doctors were to take him off life support, Trenton began showing signs of recovery from a traumatic brain injury, reports WALA. Now he's shooting hoops during rehab. "It's a miracle," mom Jennifer Nicole Reindl tells USA Today. Trenton's ordeal began two months ago, when he was riding in a cart being pulled by a dune buggy, and the cart flipped. "I hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head," Trenton tells the Alabama TV station. "After that, I don’t remember anything." Reindl wrote on a Facebook fundraiser that her son suffered seven skull fractures requiring multiple surgeries, and that doctors were detecting no brain activity over several days. At that point, they made the decision to donate his organs—"I knew he would not hesitate to save 5 more lives"—until a final test of brain waves came back positive. Trenton is recuperating at home, and he suffers from nerve pain and daily seizures. But he's thankful for his recovery, and tells WALA that he credits something beyond the hospital. "There's no other explanation but God," he says. "There's no other way."