“I could hear everything, says man after two years in coma,” reports John Hooper for The Guardian.
Salvatore Crisafulli, 38, has had great difficulty in speaking since recovering, but, asked if he could remember the past two years, he replied “yes” and wept. In true Italian style, his mother told reporters that his first word had been “Mamma”.
The recovery is being hailed as a miracle in his home city of Catania in Sicily, and came to light on the day Italy’s bioethics committee was voting on whether to feed patients in a persistent vegetative state.