Posted on 01/25/2009 10:33:31 PM PST by Steelfish
Husband's Kiss Woke Sleeping Beauty Wife' In Coma After Heart Attack
By VANESSA ALLEN 26th January 2009
After two weeks sitting by his wife's bedside hoping she would wake from a coma, Andrew Ray was at his wits' end. Doctors had told him Emma could become a real-life sleeping beauty when she failed to regain consciousness after a heart attack.
The distraught father of two played her tapes of their baby son crying and their daughter shouting 'wake up Mummy!'.
Finally, in desperation, he leant over her hospital bed and pleaded: 'Emma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss.' Kiss of life:
Andrew woke his 'sleeping beauty' wife Emma from her coma with a kiss 'What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams,' he said. '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.' The kiss was witnessed by doctors who were astonished by the 34-year-old's sudden response.
Mrs Ray had suffered the heart attack just ten days after giving birth to her son. Her horrified husband had to give her mouth-to-mouth after she collapsed while they were out shopping. She was taken to hospital where doctors were able to restart her heart but warned she could remain in a coma indefinitely.
Mr Ray said a doctor told him: 'She could wake up the following day, she could wake up in a month, or you may be left with a sleeping beauty.'
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Lovely, lovely, lovely.
aaawwwwwwww....
what a beautiful miracle! and another reason not to allow wholesale euthanasia!
Sounds like a tough recovery, but a very heartwarming recovery none the less.
Happy ping
Pro-life ping for your lists!!
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