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   A year after the tonsil surgery complication that led doctors to   
   declare then-13-year-old Jahi McMath brain dead, she is still on   
   a ventilator, "alive and well," her family wrote on its public   
   Facebook page.   
      
   Jahi's family successfully fought a legal battle to keep her on   
   life support after doctors at the Benioff Children's Hospital in   
   Oakland, California, said the hospital could no longer care for   
   her because she was brain dead. Since then, the family has   
   argued that she is not brain dead and may recover.   
      
   "Today marks one year [since] this tragedy happened at the   
   Children's Hospital Oakland, and we want to thank God for   
   keeping Jahi ALIVE and WELL against all odds," the family wrote   
   on the Keep Jahi McMath on Life Support Facebook Page.   
      
   The teen was undergoing tonsil surgery when she had significant   
   blood loss and went into cardiac arrest on Dec. 9, 2013. She was   
   declared brain dead, but the family sued to keep her on life   
   support. She eventually was moved to a long-term care facility   
   in New Jersey.   
      
   The Terri Schiavo Life & Hope Network, which has supported   
   Jahi's family throughout the ordeal, said in October that the   
   teen was "showing signs that may prove the hospital designation   
   wrong." Jahi's mother, Nailah Winkfield, has said her daughter   
   responds to verbal commands.   
      
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