Hello everyone.
Today, we are going to be talking about comas.
A coma is where a person becomes unconscious and is unable to wake up.
There are many reasons why this can happen.
It can last for days, weeks, months or even years.
Each story is unique and interesting but here are some one that really stand out - youre
not gonna believe them.
My name is Danny Burke and this is the Top 10 Shocking Coma Stories.
Coming in at number10 we have Edwarda Obara.
In 1970, 16 year old Edwarda was rushed to hospital.
She was diabetic and shaking after not getting enough insulin.
As she slipped in and out of consciousness, she turned to her mother, Kaye, and said -promise
you wont leave me, will you Mummy?- .. she promised but that was the last time they ever
spoke.
Edwarda fell into a deep coma - a coma which lasted for 42 years.
In all that time, her mother never left her side.
She died in 2007 and Edwardas sister took over her full time care.
Finally, in 2012, Edwarda died at the age of 59, having only be conscious for 16 of
those years.
At number 9 now we have The Addiction.
In 2009, a toddler called Ya Wen was hit by a speeding van in China.
She spent 5 days in a coma with severe injuries.
When she woke up, she had changed.
Her mother said she started acting like an adult.
She started drinking 3 glasses of beer a day and smoking cigarettes.
Her mother found in hiding in a bathroom smoking after stealing them from but now she gets
them on credit from the local store.
I have so many questions.
Obviously I want to know how this happened but I also wanna know - what are the parents
thinking?
Their 3 year old wakes up from a coma, starts smoking and drinking and they just go with
it?
Maybe theyre the ones that need to wake up …
Next up at number 8 we have I love You.
You arent gonna believe this one.
Wendy Richmond is a woman from the UK who slips into a coma every time she tells her
grand children she loves them.
She suffers from a conditions such as cataplexy and narcolepsy which can be triggered by a
number of things, leaving her in a waking sleep and paralyzed.
When her grandchildren were born, she realised one of these things was having an intense
moment of love for someone.
This strange brain function has meant shes had to emotionally distance herself from her
grandchildren.
She cant run up to them and tell them she loves them without the danger of falling into
a coma.
Moving on to number 7 now we have Terry Wallis.
In 1984, 19 year old Terry Wallis was involved in a car accident that left in paralyzed from
the neck down and in a coma.
Doctors thought he would never regain consciousness but his parents put him in a rehabilitation
centre where they would visit him every other weekend.
Then, in 2003, 19 years after the accident, Terry woke up.
He saw his Mum and said Mama and then asked for Pepsi and Milk.
He slowly recovered and although he remains disabled and unable to form short term memories,
he can communicate with those around him.
However, in many ways, he is still trapped in 1984.
He refuses to acknowledge he isnt 20 any more and thinks the US President is Ronald Regan.
One last creepy fact is that the crash happened on Friday the 13th and Terry started speaking
again on you gussed it, Friday the 13th … Coming at number 6 we have Sam Carter.
In 2008, 60 year old Sam Carter slipped into a coma after a case of severe anemia where
his red blood cell count got too low.
At the hospital, he was in the coma for 3 days and was given just a 30 percent chance
of recovery.
His wife was desperate and asked if there was anything she could do to help - the Doctors
suggested playing music to him.
So, she placed some headphones on him and played I Cant Get No Satisfaction by The Rolling
Stones - and he woke up!
After fully recovering, Sam said that the song gave him a new energy and pulled him
out of the coma.
The song choice was no accident either - his wife knew that it was the first single Sam
had ever bought when he was 17.
If you were in a coma, what song do you think would wake you up?
Next up at number 5 we have John Roach.
He was a 50 year old man who chose to be in a coma.
He suffered from from chronic pain that left even the slightest touch to his skin feeling
like a blow torch to the skin.
Nothing had worked and so he took part in a radical treatment, a ketamine induced coma.
He slipped into a coma for 5 days while the ketamine restarted his nervous system, like
rebooting a computer.
Then, they woke him up and sent him home with small doses of the treatment to self administer
but not enough to put him into another coma.
John says his life changed forever.
He was no longer in agony and could enjoy simple things in life like holding his wifes
hand or picking up his Grandkids that he just couldnt do before the coma.
Coming in at number 4 we have The Sex Addict.
In May 2010, an 81 year old grandad was put under house arrest because he developed a
sex addiction after falling out of a plum tree and going into a coma for 4 days.
That might be one of the strangest sentences Ive ever said but lets break it down.
Angelo De Luca, from Switzerland needed an operation after his coma and when he woke
up, he started spending thousands of dollars at a local brothel and fell in love with one
of the girls there.
His son believed he was being preyed upon and a court gave him control of his Fathers
bank accounts because his sex addiction made him unfit to govern his own affairs.
What an unebelievable story.
Coming in at number 3 now we have Half Awake.
In 1988, a Polish man called Jan Grzebski injured his head while work on a railroad.
He fell into a coma for 15 years, finally waking up in 2003.
By that point, Poland had changed a lot as it was no longer a communist country.
People were eager to here what he thought of that but Jan said he already knew.
He said that he actually woke up from his coma after 4 years but he was still paralyzed
and mute.
He spent a further 11 years in this state before finally being able to talk - he even
learnt to walk again.
I dunno about you guys but I think that sounds even scarier.
I would never want to be conscious but unable to communicate, sounds like a nightmare.
At number 2 now we have Bilingual.
People spend years of their lives mastering a 2nd language but for Sandra Ralic, it came
to her in her sleep.
This 13 year old Croatian girl went into a coma for 24 hours and when she woke up, she
was unable to speak Croatian.
Instead, she could communicate perfectly in German.
This baffled everyone around her.
Her parents said that she had only just started studying German at school yet here she was,
speaking it fluently and now unable to talk in the language she was raised with.
If any of you guys are worried about passing your French exams this year, please dont put
yourself into a coma, its not gonna work.
And finally at number 1 we have the F Bomb.
In 2004, Joey Hopkins, a 22 year old British man, fell into a coma after a serious car
crash.
His Mother, Joanne, stayed by his bed side every day for 41 days, hoping that he would
show some sign of life.
Then, she noticed that he was trying to speak, she leaned in close to hear him whisper his
first words since falling into the coma and he said -Fuck off- … you heard me right.
He told his Mum to F off but she cried with relief.
She had told the nurse that shed know he was getting better if he swore at her and said
that when he did, she believed it was his way of telling her he was going to be OK.
After that, he slowly began the road to recovery.
Its a weird coma story but clearly that is a mother who knows the relationship with her
son inside out.
Well guys, I hope you found these coma stories interesting, I know I did - theres something
strangely fascinating about the brain shutting down like this and then waking up years later.
How do you feel about them?
My name is Danny Burke, thanks for watching as always and Ill see you in the next video
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