People who survived a coma are not easy. There is probably a very strange feeling when you wake up and discover that you spent days, months or even years unconscious. In life and in the world, so many changes can happen during this time. Coma is a terrible condition; man is literally between life and death. However, sometimes strange and even funny cases occur. Here are 5 unusual incidents with people who survived coma or were in this condition:
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A boy who, after leaving a coma, loved cheese very much and started cursing
Kai Thomas was not even 15 years old when bleeding occurred in the brain. He was artificially immersed in a coma; he spent unconscious for 9 days. Recovering, he could not move and speak. Once his mother heard him swearing at the whole house. She went upstairs and found her son with a whole piece of cheese. Now Thomas does not spend a single day without cheese (he even adds it to cereal for breakfast) and curses. The doctor said that aggressive behavior after leaving a coma is normal. However, the addiction to cheese is inexplicable.
2
A young man from Australia, having outlived whom, spoke in Chinese
An Australian young man had a car accident and fell into a coma. When he came to, he saw a nurse of Asian descent in front of him. He instinctively began to speak with her in Mandarin Chinese, without even realizing it. He never fluently spoke North Chinese, but after a coma he began to know him better than some natives of the Middle Kingdom.
3
A woman gave birth to a baby while in a coma
Sharista Giles had an accident and suffered a serious head injury, as a result of which she fell into a coma. Doctors said that she had practically no chance. At the time of the accident, she was already in the second trimester of pregnancy. The boy was born while Sharista was in a coma. Doctors called it a real miracle. The girl regained consciousness several months after the birth of the baby. She went through rehabilitation to get back on her feet. The first years of the life of little Leighton, she was next: she saw his first steps and heard the first words. Unfortunately, after 3 years, Sharista died. The family says that it was her son who helped her not to give up.
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A man came out of a coma when money was waved in front of his nose
Xiao Li wanted to become a businessman. In search of an idea, he spent about a week in an Internet cafe, neglecting sleep. He suddenly fainted and fell into a coma. The cause was a blood clot in the cerebral artery. Doctors managed to save his life and stabilize his condition. However, he never regained consciousness.
Medicine knows many cases when people came out of a coma under the influence of external factors: familiar melodies, voices, sounds, etc. Doctors tried all the options. When they found out about the patient’s love of money, they decided to try this: they took a 100 yuan banknote, crunched it and brought it to Xiao Li's nose - and it worked! The smell of money woke up a motivated businessman.
5
The Englishman came out of a coma convinced that he was Matthew McConaughey
Rory Curtis, after a serious car accident, spent 6 days in a coma. Waking up, he was convinced that he was a Hollywood actor Matthew McConaughey. Rory said he was looking forward to returning to filming. He was shocked when he looked at himself in the mirror, because he did not look like McConaughey. It took him a few more days to realize that he was not a Hollywood actor.
Rory also began to speak French fluently, although he graduated more than 12 years ago and had not used the language all this time.
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Woman got pregnant in a coma
A little higher, it was a woman who fell into a coma while pregnant, but this case is even more amazing! In early 2019, the world spread news from the United States, where in a clinic in the city of Phoenix a woman who had been in a coma for more than 10 years became pregnant and gave birth to a baby.
No one knows how the pregnancy occurred, but doctors and police are confident that talking about the virgin birth is inappropriate here. It's about rape.
The child was born healthy, almost without any complications, which is a great success for such cases. It is still unknown who is the father of the child, but the police are conducting a large investigation.
Finally
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