Learning to love again: Wife ignored doctor’s plea to pull plug on husband, he beat the odds weeks later

WATCH ABOVE: Doctors gave Matthew Davis a very slim chance of survival after a motorcycle accident left him in a coma. But his wife of just seven months, Danielle, refused to give up on her husband. Vinita Nair reports.

TORONTO – A young couple from Georgia is learning to love each other again, four years after a horrific motorcycle accident caused a doctor to tell Danielle Davis to take her husband off life support. Their inspiring love story has now gone viral.

On July 11, 2011, then 22-year-old Matthew was on his way to work when he struck a parked car while merging onto a highway.

Matt’s diagnosis wasn’t good and his list of injuries was long. He had suffered multiple fractures of the femur, multiple jaw fractures, a fractured rib, lacerated liver, fractured collar bone, skull fracture, a brain injury and he was in a coma. Health officials believed he only had a 10 per cent chance to pull through and regain consciousness and only a five per cent chance to fully recover.

One doctor even suggested to Danielle that she consider taking him off life support just a week after the accident.

“This was a difficult choice for me,” Danielle described the situation via the couple’s blog. “Being his wife I knew that he did not want to remain a vegetable and here the doctors were telling me that’s exactly what will happen.”

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "This was a difficult choice for me," Danielle described the situation <a href="http://newlifeoldworld.com/about/" target="_blank">via the couple's blog</a>. "Being his wife I knew that he did not want to remain a vegetable and here the doctors were telling me that's exactly what will happen."

Multiple surgeries and treatments later, Danielle refused to give up on her husband. And remarkably, eventually Matthew’s eyes opened and he started tracking people in his room. It was then that Danielle brought her husband home to continue caring for him.

And that’s when everything changed. Davis regained movement in his arms and legs and even awoke from the coma once he was out of the hospital. However, he couldn’t remember the previous three years of his life, including his own wedding.

“It was kinda like this: ‘That’s your wife.’ I was like, ‘yeah,'” Matthew told CBS, smiling.

“I realized, he doesn’t remember me, he’s not going to remember me, those things are gone,” Danielle added.

Tweet This Click to share quote on Twitter: "I realized, he doesn't remember me, he's not going to remember me, those things are gone," Danielle added.

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The young couple would have to learn to love each other all over again. Danielle continued to show an incredible amount of perseverance. She even started a gofundme page to help supplement Matthew’s intense therapy sessions while insurance covered the cost of rehabilitation.

In April 2014, Matthew took his first steps, according to a blog post.

Now, almost four years after the accident, Matthew continues to endure a slow recovery process. A video posted to Facebook on Friday shows Matthew attempting to run.

Matthew credits his wife, whether he remembers their first date or not, for his second lease on life. And together, the couple believe their faith also helped them pull through.

“He put her in my life, so God knows what he’s doing,” Matthew added.