Andrew and Emma Ray with their children
Posted on 01/28/2009 2:37:32 PM PST by NYer
.- 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.
Beautiful story
Now that just made me feel really good inside!
Ping
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If she hadn’t come out of it, would he have been accused of putting her into that state, I wonder?
I think the kiss would have been one of the first things to try!
” . . . . if through this wicked witch’s trick, a spindle should your finger prick... a ray of hope there still may be in this, the gift I give to thee. Not in death, but just in sleep, this fateful prophecy you’ll keep. And from this slumber you shall wake, when true love’s kiss, the spell shall break.”
(I have many, many daughters.)
My mother had passed away six months earlier. He had endured a year after his stroke unable to walk, talk or swallow effectively, but he still participated and was loved by his family and care givers. He had repeatedly pulled through six asperated pneumonia crisis that would have killed men twwenty years his junior.
One of his favorite nurses leaned closer, and said "sweet heart, what do you want?"
He struggled and finally got out, "My Wife."
My sister sat comforting him that afternoon, as he struggled to just breath. Within an hour of him having moments alone that night he died quietly.
His last words, his Valentine wish now fulfilled, was on all of our minds and gave us peace with his passing.
so very romantic.
Made me think of my sweetie when I was in labor. Everyone thought it so romantic that he would whisper in my ear. In reality, he was making funny comments to make me laugh.
:-)
“Honey, I can’t get home to install a new kitchen until you wake up...”
True Love.
Thank you for sharing this very touching story. How long were your parents married?
OMG I was already crying and then you went and did that. How very beautiful.
"For true love conquers all!"
Aurora is hot; Philip is a lucky dog! And I know the rule...
Of course, even better as Briar Rose...
Great story.Thanks for posting it.
Whenever coma is mentioned, I like to remind people that if someone you know is in the hospital unconscious, that it be insisted on that they receive warmed oxygen, not cold oxygen.
It is extremely dangerous to give an unconscious person cold oxygen or air, because it an significantly lower the temperature of the blood as it travels to their brain, and can even cause brain damage. There are some suggestions that it can induce coma, or worsen a mild coma into a much more severe coma.
Because of the physical gas laws, when compressed gases are released from storage, they become colder, often cold enough to form ice on the metal parts of a storage tank. So if you see gas coming directly from a tank, you know its going to be cold.
We have “rules” for Disney princesses now?! Kinda weird.
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