A man who was in a coma for 19 years after a car crash woke up and spoke to his mother, who was sitting at his bedside. Mr Terry Wallis began with a few nouns, but gradually he found a torrent of phrases.
“He started out with ‘Mum’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk’,” Alesha Badgley, director of the Arkansas rehabilitation centre where Mr Wallis was being cared for, said. “Now it is anything he wants to say.”
His mother, Mrs Angilee Wallis, said it was a miracle: “I couldn’t tell you my first thought, I just fell over on the floor,” she said. Read the full story here ▶
