Woman in coma laughed at her family’s jokes

A MOTHER-of-two who was left in a coma after a car crash nearly two years ago has started laughing at her children’s jokes.

Andrea Brushneen’s family had feared they would never hear her voice again when she was left with horrific injuries after the accident.

But the 31-year-old suddenly began laughing out loud when her daughter Shaunagh, 11, and son, Mark, seven, read out jokes to her by her bedside.

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