Coral Springs resident Gary Mulé on Friday reunited with the Broward Health North trauma team that saved his life three years earlier.
Mulé, a married 51-year-old father of two, was taking his usual morning bicycle ride – a 31-mile trek through Broward – when a car struck him down.
He sustained multiple life-threatening injuries, including a traumatic brain injury that left him without memory for more than three weeks during his hospitalization, officials said.
He also suffered a fractured clavicle, multiple broken ribs, and a punctured lung, among other serious injuries. Doctors gave him a fifty percent chance of survival.
Under their care, Mulé made what he considers a miraculous recovery.
“I feel grateful for my miracle three years ago,” Mulé said during a press conference at the Coral Springs hospital Friday.
Standing near the doctors and other care team members who saved him, Mulé apologized that he’d “waited so long to come say thank you to these living angels who created this miracle.”
Jerry Capote, Chief medical officer at Broward Health North, Gary Mulé, Trauma Patient, Mario Gomez , medical director of Trauma at Broward Health North, Timothy Dickhudt, trauma surgeon at Broward Health North. {Broward Health}
“They see a lot of heartbreak and heartache and tragedy, but there’s always hope,” he said. “With people like these amazing [trauma team members], there’s a good shot for miracles to happen.”
Throughout his hospitalization and recovery, Mulé’s wife and family remained by his side and never gave up hope, officials said. Neither did the team caring for him.
Slowly, Mulé’s condition improved.
“The fact that people don’t want to give up helps me not want to give up,” he said.
About six months after the crash, Mulé returned to work part-time at Doris Italian Market and Bakery in Coral Springs, where he is a part-owner, officials said.
An avid athlete who had regularly competed in triathlons before his injury, Mulé began enjoying swimming, running, and cycling again nearly a year into his recovery.
Ahead of National Trauma Survivors Day on May 21, Mulé said he wanted to return to Broward Health North to thank the trauma team that saved him.
“I could have been permanently brain-damaged … but because of the decisions and actions of everyone here I’m able to be a dad, be a husband, be a son, be a friend, and be able to share this story so people know that hope is alive.”
“Miracles do exist,” Mulé said.
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