Coma Victim Awakes from Granddaughter's Scream

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Whoa... who knew this would work?

Coma victim woken by granddaughter's scream

A woman who was in a coma for six weeks was woken from her condition by her granddaughter’s scream.

Devbai Patel, 56, was left unconscious after she was hit by a lorry in a crash which killed the driver.

Doctors reduced her sedatives to try to rouse her and her family talked to her, but she showed no reaction, so the medical staff suggested she might respond to her granddaughter Leela, aged 23 months.

When they brought Leela in, she screamed to see her grandmother looking so ill, and Mrs Patel immediately opened her eyes.

Her husband Kunverji, 57, said: "It's a miracle. We had tried everything but still she did not respond.

"We brought in Leela and she was shocked to see her grandma like that, so she screamed and as soon as she did my wife opened her eyes.

"The doctors could not believe how quickly she got better once she had woken up."

Mrs Patel, a mother of four, of Neasden, north London, was walking near her home on January 16 when a lorry mounted the pavement, hit her and smashed into a veterinary surgery, killing the lorry's driver and leaving Mrs Patel with brain, stomach and arm injuries.

Mrs Patel , now recuperating with her family, said: "I'm glad to be home."
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Coma victim woken by granddaughter's scream - Telegraph

I hope this doesn't lead other doctors to make this one of those "tests" to get a coma patient to wake up.

"Sir, your wife is in a coma. We've tried everything. Do you mind bringing in your daughter and have her scream her head off?"
 
:rofl: It sounds like something from a Hollywood movie where the simplest thing cures all ills.
 
Don't anybody panic! Let me call the experts! <calling Mulder and Scully>

They said, "Whatever works!"
 
That's interesting. It probably won't work for some Coma Victim.
 
What a wacky story. Well, that's one way to do a hearing test. We now know the coma victim isn't deaf.

And a confession: I had to look up "lorry" in the dictionary, because I wasn't sure what it was.
 
That's interesting. It may work for one but doesn't work for another. There are a lot of things that can trigger a coma victim to come out of the coma but unfortunately for some cases, they're never able to come out of it. :(

Speaking of that, I remember I read an article from a newspaper stating a man was in coma for 13 years and one day, he just finally came out of the coma. He couldn't recognize his wife, his children and his family. He had to re-learn everything and to get to know his wife and family all over again. That's scary.
 
Jolie77 said:
That's interesting. It may work for one but doesn't work for another. There are a lot of things that can trigger a coma victim to come out of the coma but unfortunately for some cases, they're never able to come out of it. :(

Speaking of that, I remember I read an article from a newspaper stating a man was in coma for 13 years and one day, he just finally came out of the coma. He couldn't recognize his wife, his children and his family. He had to re-learn everything and to get to know his wife and family all over again. That's scary.
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There was one girl in my high school who was in a coma after a car accident. When she woke up, she didn't know English... only her native language, Vietnamese. After a few weeks, she began to speak English again. Weird.
 
Wow.

This reminds me...
One time I had sleep paralysis (it scared the hell out of me, luckily it has never happened again, doctors not sure what happened or if it can happen again)

Not really related to this, but I remember it very clearly...
My mind woke up, but I could not move anything at all, not even the slightest muscle... it was horrifying... I don't even know how long I lay there, just trying and trying to move, and nothing would work at all. I wanted to scream, or explode, or I don't know what else. Though finally after a while I was able to wiggle my toes a bit, and I kept trying to move different things, and I slowly 'came back'... it was agonizingly slow, but I couldn't do anything to alert someone to help me... I eventually 'fought' my way out until I had enough movement to get myself up, was still disoriented and floppy, and totally drained... went to the ER, and they could not find the cause, it could have been related to my neck problems, I don't know... but they couldn't find anything.

It still sends chills down my spine...

Also, even though sleep paralysis is somewhat common, I have a fragile neck and it could be easily damaged, even though it is partly fused now... resulting in spinal cord injury... (even a fall or hard bump, or procedures under anesthetic are dangerous) so the sleep paralysis doubly freaked me out, especially with not being able to recover right away.
 
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