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Terry Wallis woke to find his fiancee had three children with another man, and that his own daughter was a strip club worker. Getty Images. His personal circumstances shed light on the world coma survivors can be themselves returning to. Wallis would not have known that the year-old bride he kissed goodbye on the night of his accident would go on to have three children with another man.

And he had to come to terms with the fact that Amber, the six-month-old daughter he left behind, was a year-old strip club dancer when he woke. An American millionaire heiress and socialite. Her marriage to her husband Claus had been difficult, and he was suspected of injuring her, causing her to fall into a coma in She recovered, only to enter a second coma a year later in Her husband, who stood to inherit her fortune, was twice found guilty in the s of attempting to murder her by injecting her with sedatives and insulin, but was later acquitted on appeal.

She did not wake from the second coma, dying 27 years, 11 months and 15 days later of a heart attack in a New York nursing home. She went in for a routine operation, the removal of her appendix, as a six-year-old on August 6, But she never woke from the general anaesthetic, staying in a coma for 37 years and days, before dying in Dubbed 'sleeping beauty' by the press, she survived numerous operations while comatose, including pneumonia and measles.

Her family even took her to the grotto at Lourdes in France, hoping for a miracle. Sometimes, however, a person stays in a coma for a long time — even years — and will be able to do very little except breathe on his or her own. Most people do come out of comas. Some of them are able to return to the normal lives they had before they got sick. On TV, it seems like someone in a coma wakes up right away, looks around, and is able to think and talk normally.

But in real life, this rarely happens. When coming out of a coma, a person probably will be confused and only slowly respond to what's going on. It will take time for the person to start feeling better. Whether someone fully returns to normal after being in a coma depends on what caused the coma and how badly the brain may have been hurt. Sometimes people who come out of comas are just as they were before — they can remember what happened to them before the coma and can do everything they used to do.

Unfortunately, Grzebski passed away two years after waking up from his coma. The cause of death was a heart attack, believed to be related to the coma. Perhaps the most famous stuntman of all time, Knievel was known for punishing his body.

One of his most memorable performances took place on New Year's Eve Knievel attempted to jump over the famous fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. He cleared the fountains but the landing failed, and he had a horrific crash in front of a national television audience. The crash resulted in a broken pelvis, fractured ribs, and a fractured skull. Knievel spent the next 29 days in a coma. These two characters might be works of fiction, but with our ever-expanding knowledge of comas, they might become the art that lives are imitating.

Washington Irving's short story "Rip Van Winkle" tells the story of a colonial husband trying to skip out on his household chores. After enjoying some liquor, Rip falls into a deep sleep. When he regains consciousness, he realizes that his deep sleep was deeper than he could have possibly imagined: 20 years have passed, the American Revolution has ended, and another man with Rip's exact name is revealed to be his son.

Philip J. She was 32 and he was 4 the time. While Webair escaped with some bruising, his mother sustained a serious brain injury. Despite treatment at hospitals in the U. E, the U. Then suddenly, last June, she did. Her family has gone public with her story in the last few days to give hope to people with loved ones in long-term comas.



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