Cy-Fair teen shares story about how synthetic marijuana changed her life

HOUSTON (KTRK) --

Home isn't where most high school seniors want to spend homecoming weekend. Home is where Cy-Fair senior Emily Bauer will be.

Three years ago Emily's mom, Tonya Bauer, got a call from her daughter's then-boyfriend admitting they smoked synthetic marijuana. Bauer rushed home to a girl she didn't know.

"This sound that didn't even sound human, just screaming sounds, they had 5 constables holding her down to get her in the ambulance... I remember just standing by her dresser crying," Bauer remembers.

After five strokes doctors said seventy percent of Emily's brain tissue was dead and she would never recover. Doctors and parents turned off her life support, but Emily didn't die. Since then, she's had a long road to recovery, but Bauer says they're happy to have a road.

Emily says, "I can see but my brain doesn't understand what I'm seeing...I can't get a job,...

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