Man in coma wakes after 19 years

A man in the US regained consciousness after spending 19 years in a coma, greeting his mother who was waiting at his bedside.

“He started out with ‘Mom’ and surprised her and then it was ‘Pepsi’ and then it was ‘milk’,” Alesha Badgley, Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Centre social director, said yesterday. “And now it’s anything he wants to say.”