CLOSE A 13-year-old boy from Alabama came back to life a day before doctors were set to pull the plug on his life support, USA Today reports. Veuer's Sam Berman has the full story. Buzz60 
 
 Trenton McKinley is making a "miracle" recovery from his brain injuries. (Photo: courtesy of Jennifer Nicole Reindl) 
 
 Jennifer Nicole Reindl has a simple explanation for her young son's recovery from the brink of death due to severe brain injuries. 
 
 "It's a miracle," Reindl tells USA TODAY, citing her belief that the hand of God is behind it all. 
 
 Trenton McKinley, 13, from Mobile, Ala., was so close to death after the brain trauma from a freak utility vehicle accident that his parents signed papers to donate his organs to five separate children needing transplants. 
 
 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. 
 
 "I was in an open field walking straight,” Trenton told WALA. "There's no other explanation but God. There's no other way. Even doctors said it." 
 
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 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. The last time they brought him back he had no brain waves, a damaged brain stem and his heart only beat because of the (adrenaline)," Reindl wrote on Facebook. 
 
 On a fundraising page for medical expenses, Reindl noted that Trenton's "kidneys began to fail due to the lack of oxygen after his cardiac arrest." 
 
 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... I knew he would not hesitate to save 5 more lives," the mother wrote on Facebook. 
 
 But Trenton pulled back from the verge in ways his mother insists has defied medical explanation. On March 29, Reindl updated her Facebook page to point out that Trenton, wearing a protective head device, had tossed baskets at the hospital-facility gym. 
 
 "Today for the first time he went to the gym and from his chair in perfect form he made 4 baskets playing basketball," she wrote. "He is now back in the room resting....praise the lord...He is healing every day has his full memory and talks about his school friends every day." 
 
 While Trenton's road to recovery will continue and be full of obstacles, Reindl is fully thankful. 
 
 "God did for my son what he did for his own....and I am so honored to have him back this is my testimony....god is good," she wrote. 
 
 Read or Share this story: https://usat.ly/2rv17f5 ||||| A story you'll see only on FOX10 News-- A local boy is being called a miracle after suffering severe brain trauma from a dune buggy accident. His family says he "came back to life" after they signed the paperwork to donate his organs. 
 
 13-year-old Trenton McKinley of Mobile was playing at a friend’s house two months ago. He was riding in a small utility trailer being pulled by a dune buggy for kids. Trenton says his friend pressed on the brakes suddenly, causing the trailer to flip. He says he quickly threw his friend’s 4-year-old niece off into the grass, but in the process, got caught in the trailer as it flipped. 
 
 “I hit the concrete and the trailer landed on top of my head. After that, I don't remember anything," said Trenton. 
 
 He was rushed to USA Medical Center for emergency surgery, and was later transferred to UAB Hospital in Birmingham. He had seven skull fractures. 
 
 “All I saw was a stretcher with his feet hanging out. He was dead a total of 15 minutes,” said his mother, Jennifer Reindl, with tears in her eyes. “When he came back, they said he would never be normal again. 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. Reindl says she was approached by doctors to make a difficult decision. She and Trenton's father signed the papers to donate his organs. 
 
 "Five kids needed organs that matched him,” said Reindl. “It was unfair to keep bringing him back, because it was just damaging his organs even more." 
 
 A day before doctors were set to pull the plug, Trenton started showing small signs of cognition. He believes he was in heaven while he was gone. 
 
 "I was in an open field walking straight,” said Trenton. "There's no other explanation but God. There's no other way. Even doctors said it." 
 
 Slowly but surely, Trenton is making strides beyond what anyone expected, but it's not without a struggle. He's lost 50 pounds, and deals with nerve pain and seizures daily. Despite all that, this kid's still got a great sense of humor. 
 
 "I said I could turn sideways and put salsa in there and eat chips and dip out of my head. No more washing dishes for me!” laughed Trenton as he referred to the dent in his head. “She wouldn't let me put nothing in it though. I really wanted to see if I could." 
 
 Just talking to the young boy, you would never believe he has already been through three brain surgeries. He's still got a long road ahead with a lot of medical expenses. Trenton currently only has half of his skull. The missing piece is frozen at the hospital. He will have surgery soon to reconnect it. 
 
 If you want to donate to his fundraiser, click here! 
 
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– 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."