Matthew Schuman
The Road to Recovery
At age 26, in the prime of his life, Matthew Schuman was shot in the back of the head while working a night shift as an armoured car guard in June, 2012. Three other guards died but Schuman miraculously survived. For the last eight months he has been recovering from the physical and emotional challenges of his injury.
Seriously wounded and trapped in small room where guards were filling a bank machine, Matthew Schuman hopes Safe Walk volunteers will hear his cries for help.
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Jennifer Schuman is awakened by a phone call that her only son has been shot. Schuman flies to Edmonton from her home in Cambridge, Ontario to be with him.
The first thing he sees is his mother, Jennifer.
Cell phone video messages to the extended family back home in Ontario to show them how far Matthew has come.
He is sitting up and, on July 1st, Canada Day, he takes his first steps on his own.
Matthew was still coming to terms with the fact he was alive and the other three guards, Michelle Shegelski, Brian Ilesic and Eddie Rejano, were dead.
Matthew spent a total of four months in the hospital, before returning home to his son Landon, and has spent the last four month in rehab — almost daily — working towards what he hopes will be a full recovery.
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He has gone from a coma to walking, talking and relearning basic language and math skills. Hear what he has to say about learning his ABC's and 123's again.
Matthew Schuman took a bullet to the brain. While his head injury healed he wore a helmet. In November doctors inserted a metal plate to reinforce his skull. His mother Jennifer, an x-ray technologist, say she has never seen a image of his injury and she never does.
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