Trenton McKinley is officially a 'miracle' child. He can claim this moniker as he woke up after being thought brain dead which had convinced his parents to sign his organ donation papers.

Trenton is a 13-year-old, from the town of Mobile in Alabama, U.S. and he was considered close to death after his brain suffered severe trauma from a freak utility vehicle accident. Trenton suffered the accident in March 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 WALA, a FOX affiliate in Alabama.

Rushed to the hospital for emergency surgery with seven fractures in his skull, 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)," his mother Jennifer Nicole 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, in ways his mother insists has defied medical explanation. 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."

But one day before Trenton's life support was to end, he showed signs of cognition, CBS Today reported.

"The next day he was scheduled to have his final brain wave test to call his time of death, but his vitals spiked so they cancelled the test," Reindl said. "He is a miracle," she said in a Facebook post on March 23.

According to CBS News, Trenton is now going through a slow recovery process and still suffers from nerve pain and daily seizures. The path to recovery is long but the family saw one miracle and that has given them new hope.

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