Husband's Kiss Awakens Woman from Coma

[SCFinfan]

I think we can all enjoy this beautiful, noncontroversial story. I loved it.

London, Jan 28, 2009 / 02:31 am (CNA).- A woman who doctors believed could remain comatose indefinitely recently revived after her husband asked her for a kiss.

Just ten days after giving birth to her son, Telford, Shropshire resident Emma Ray suffered a heart attack and collapsed while shopping with her husband, Andrew. Andrew performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her, after which she was taken to a hospital where doctors were able to restart her heart.

“She could wake up the following day, she could wake up in a month, or you may be left with a sleeping beauty,” Andrew Ray said a doctor told him, according to the Daily Mail.

Andrew went to great lengths to try and rouse his 34 year-old wife from her comatose state, playing recordings of their baby son Alexander and of their daughter Ella and songs from their wedding reception.

“I would speak softly to her, clasp her hand, pinch her fingers, all the time telling her I loved her or begging her to wake up. By the time I asked her to kiss me I was approaching my wits' end,” he told the Daily Mail.

He bent over his wife’s hospital bed and said “Emma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss.”

“'What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams,” he told the Daily Mail. “She turned her head towards mine, puckered up her lips and gave me a little kiss.”

“I couldn't believe it. My heart felt like it was going to leap from my chest –it suddenly felt like a huge weight had been lifted.”

Doctors who witnessed the kiss were astonished by her response.

Emma ray continued to drift in an out of consciousness. Her brain had been oxygen-starved after her heart attack, resulting in short-term memory loss.

She was eventually allowed home but requires ongoing rehabilitation for the brain damage.

“The recovery is awful because I have so little memory,” Emma told the Daily Mail.

Her husband said he was grateful his wife had survived.

“She can walk quite well holding hands now, and at least our kids still have a mother and I still have a wife,” he said, according to the Daily Mail.

from http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=14910

[YoFuggedaboutit]

A true fairy tale indeed.   

[Dave Gray]

Good story, but it sounds fishy.

[Defense54]

Good story, but it sounds fishy.

I didn't want to be the first to say it.........but you have to consider the source. 

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

I didn't want to be the first to say it.........but you have to consider the source. 

The Catholic news agency stretching the truth to claim a miracle occurred.  Shocked, shocked. 

[Defense54]

The Catholic news agency stretching the truth to claim a miracle occurred.  Shocked, shocked. 

   Next they are gonna report a pic of the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast..........wait.......... ....  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm

[MyGodWearsAHoodie]

  Next they are gonna report a pic of the Virgin Mary in a piece of toast..........wait.......... ....  

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4034787.stm

I prefer the virgin mary and baby jesus pretzel. 

[TonyB0D]

sounds kinda fishy too....but the last line almost made me crack up because it makes it sound like she's a brain-dead retard now. 

"“She can walk quite well holding hands now, and at least our kids still have a mother and I still have a wife,” he said, according to the Daily Mail."

[Sunstroke]

It wasn't the kiss that woke her up, it was the 5-alarm chili fart that her husband cut loose just a few seconds earlier. She was coming out of her coma in self defense, so she could evacuate the room.  I will admit that "divine miracle" does send a more positive message than "heinous ass exhaust" though...no doubt about it.

[Defense54]

It wasn't the kiss that woke her up, it was the 5-alarm chili fart that her husband cut loose just a few seconds earlier. She was coming out of her coma in self defense, so she could evacuate the room.  I will admit that "divine miracle" does send a more positive message than "heinous ass exhaust" though...no doubt about it.

That Hospital food is Killer on the digestive track!

[SCFinfan]

No divine miracle here, nor is any postulated by the article. Just something nice and positive to read. You guys are really reaching if you're trying to bash religion through an article as benign as this.

PS: Here it is in a secular papers/sites. NOW IS IT OK?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1127393/Husbands-kiss-woke-sleeping-beauty-wife-coma-heart-attack.html

digg.com cites it here: http://digg.com/health/Husband_s_kiss_wakes_sleeping_beauty_wife_in_coma

Fox News: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,482843,00.html

[Dave Gray]

I don't think the article is as benign as you're making it.

I tried to search for a secondary source to verify the accuracy, and instead I found some guy saying "Michael Shiavo should've tried kissing Terri instead of murdering her" and using this exact article as evidence.

[NADS]

I don't know.  If you ever learn that I'm in a coma fetch Asia Carrera and make sure she doesn't kiss my mouth.  Yea, old school porn.

Good stuff, Stroke.  Nothing like a fart joke.

[SCFinfan]

I don't think the article is as benign as you're making it.

What do you think the article is trying to say. No supernatural phenomena are mentioned at all.

[Dave Gray]

I think that it's making a judgment call on life in a coma.  Otherwise, why would it be a Catholic subject?