Man Thought Nearly Brain-Dead Recovers and Leaves Hospital

In this Thursday, Jan. 3, 2019 photo, T. Scott Marr wears a miracle man hat during a press conference in Omaha, Neb. Thought to be brain dead, Marr awakened after being taken off life support. Kent Sievers/Omaha World-Herald/AP

OMAHA, Nebraska—A man whose children had decided to remove his breathing tubes has recovered and left an Omaha hospital after weeks of therapy.

Now his family members call T. Scott Marr—once nearly brain-dead—the “miracle man.”