Student Wakes From 200-Day Coma After Mum Sings To Him Every Day
A student who spent 198 days in a coma has woken up after his mother refused to listen to medical advice and give up on him.
Huo Ling sang and read to her 19-year-old son every day – despite doctors saying he would likely never wake up again.
Yu Pinjia, a second-year university student, fell into a coma in March after suffering a sudden and severe cerebral haemorrhage.
After being rushed to hospital in Yichang, a city in China’s central Hubei Province, the student from the China Three Gorges University was declared comatose, with little chance of regaining consciousness.
Yu’s mother, Huo Ling, refused to give up and had her son treated in three different hospitals with acupuncture and in a hyperbaric oxygen chamber.
Doctors attend Yu Pinjia as he wakes up (CEN)
Huo stayed by his bedside talking, reading, and singing to him every day.
She would repeatedly say to him: “Dear son, you promised to take care of your father and me one day, and we are still waiting for that day."
After almost 200 days, Yu, who had undergone a total of five surgeries, opened his eyes to the sight of his mother reading him a novel.
Although he is yet to make a full recovery, doctors are delighted with his progress.
Yu Pinjia before the coma (CEN)
