When you step back and consider, as every right-thinking admirer of The One Lad will do occasionally, he's gone through quite a few lives: 9/11, where he literally was on the flight that took off right before the doomed plane [same airline, same departing airport], the appendix that could have burst nowhere near a doctor, and I recall him talking about being broadsided and his car rolling appx. 2002, where he just walked away from it. Someone's watching over Elijah, I'm convinced of it - he's touched by God (or Eru or whatever there is out there).