He woke up from a coma after 27 years: the case that amazes science

A serious car accident in 1991 was the beginning of a nightmare for Munira Abdulla, a woman from Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. She was going to pick up Omar, her 4-year-old son, from school. But a bus from another school hit the car in which the woman was travelling. She, 32, protected her son but suffered a brain injury that left her in a coma.

Little Omar was luckier and was not injured. The young man recounted his family odyssey to the local newspaper The Nacional. As confirmed, his mother he awakened from the vegetative state after almost three decades.

“My mother was sitting with me in the back seat. When she saw the accident approaching, she hugged me to protect me from the impact. There were no cell phones and we couldn’t call an ambulance for help. They left her like that for hours“said Omar Webair.

Abdulla was taken to the local hospital where it was eventually decided that she would be transferred to London. After being treated unsuccessfully, she was declared in a vegetative state. Upon returning to Al Ain, she was hospitalized again. Years passed and his condition did not improve.. She remained on the bed feeding through a tube. Additionally, they performed physical therapy exercises to prevent her muscles from deteriorating due to lack of mobility.

Meanwhile, Omar grew into a young man who did not neglect visits to his mother. Every day he walked the four kilometers that separated his house from the hospital. He would sit next to her mother and keep her company for hours.

Abdulla spent many years in hospitals in the United Arab Emirates. Hope was starting to fade. Everything changed in April 2017, when the family received an official grant for a comprehensive program at the Schön Klinik Bad Aibling hospital in Germany.

There she underwent surgery several times to at least improve her quality of life, even though the doctors never thought she would be able to regain consciousness. In June 2018During Abdulla’s last week of treatment in Germany, the unexpected happened: Abdulla began to move.

Three days later, while Omar was sleeping next to his mother, he woke up to the sound of someone calling him by name: “It was her! She said my name, I flew with joy; for years I dreamed of this moment, and my name was the first word she said!”

It wasn’t a dream. She repeated it and, as the days passed, she named her brothers and a few other phrases. “Now you can tell us where you feel pain and I can talk to you if you are interested in the topic,” her son said in 2019. The medical report, known to the BBC agency, indicates that he is also able to follow some orders and lift his limbs.

The woman returned to the United Arab Emirates, where she continues her therapy, because He has brain damage and must remain in a wheelchair. However, you can be with your loved ones, see their faces and talk to them. Plus, she has Omar by her side, who never doubted that she would “come back.” “Do not consider your relatives dead when they are in such a state,” she concluded.