Coma miracle: man wakes after 2 yr, heard everything
Published: October 9, 2005
An Italian man who had been in a coma for 2 years has awakened and reports that he had been fully aware of his surroundings while he was comatose.
“I was lying in a coma, but I understood everything,” said Salvatore Crisafulli of Sicily. The 38-year-old man, whose case had been compared with that of Terri Schiavo in the US, recently regained his ability to speak. With physical therapy he has also been able to move his head and left arm.
Crisafulli received traumatic head injuries in a motorcycle accident on September 11, 2003. For two years his wife Rita, his daughters Rita-Maria and Angela, and his mother and siblings took care of him as he lay in a coma, unresponsive.
“The doctors said that I was unconscious, but I understood everything,” Crisafulli declared. “I cried because I couldn’t manage to make myself understood.” He also recalled hearing how his brother tried to explain to the doctors that the comatose patient understood everything that they were saying.
He now spends time telling his family about his experiences during the past two years. Crisafulli said that during the final months before his “reawakening” he remembered overhearing a telephone conversations. “I cried, because I couldn’t answer,” he calls. His brother Pietro remembers, “He cried in the presence of the doctors, and they interpreted his tears as an involuntary response to an external stimulus. But in reality everything was genuine.”
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