Yeppoon dad makes 'miraculous' recovery in time for Christmas following tumour, stroke and comaSitting at his dining table, surrounded by loving family, Danual Rutledge is getting ready to enjoy a peaceful Christmas — very different to the one he and his family were bracing for months ago."[My happy place] was at the beach, we backed the ute up, and there was no one else as far as you could see, and we were cooking sangas and having a swim."Road to recoveryDefying the odds, after five weeks being in a coma scale of three, Danual did wake up."The key thing about trauma is that it overwhelms your assumptions about the world and your place in it being a safe place," she said."So part of the recovery from that is thinking about those assumptions and reconstructing new beliefs with this experience that you've had.""