Doctors who treated the woman who woke up after 27 years of coma called her case "spectacular"

Munira Abdulla was the victim of a serious car accident in 1991 that nearly ended her life in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates. The sinister flask left him in a coma, following a brain injury. When the event happened, she went to get her 4 year old son to school. A group hit the car in which she moved and left her seriously injured. He was 32 years old.

After 27 years in a vegetative state, the woman miraculously opened her eyes last year.

Dr. Friedemann Müller, Head of the Department of Early Neurological Rehabilitation at the Schoen Clinic in Bad Aibling, Germany, told the BBC that when the woman woke up, she did not have it. First thought.

"Of course, there was hope because she was unconscious on arrival, but we never thought it could happen," he said.

About his awakening, Omar Webiar, the 31-year-old son of Abdulla, told the BBC: "Before speaking, she emitted sounds and I thought it was because some something had hurt him. " that everything was fine. "

"I was sleeping in the hospital room and, around 4 am, I heard someone pronounce my name and, after a while, I realized that the sound came from my mother, "she said.

"At first, I thought I was dreaming but no, it was real, I can not express the happiness of this moment," he said.

The memory of that day

"My mother was sitting behind me, and when she saw the accident getting closer, she hugged me to protect me from the shock. Cell phone and we could not call an ambulance to ask for help.Omar at the local newspaper The Nacional.

The woman was transferred to the local hospital and then to London. After years of unsuccessful treatment, they declared it in a vegetative state. Back in Al Ain, she was hospitalized again. The years have pbaded and his condition has not improved. She prostrated herself, fed with a probe, and received physical therapy to prevent her muscles from deteriorating.

In the middle of the story, Omar grew up constantly visiting his mother every day. In April 2017, the family received an official grant for a full program at the Schön Klinik Bad Aibling Hospital in Germany.

In this country, he has intervened repeatedly to at least improve his quality of life, even though doctors never thought that he could regain consciousness. Finally, in June 2018, Abdulla began to move.

Three days later, while Omar was sleeping next to his mother, Omar woke up with the voice of someone calling him that way. This was neither more nor less than Abdulla. "It was she, she said my name, I flew with joy, for years, I dreamed of that moment, and my name was the first word she's said!" Nowadays, the woman is back home with her family for physiotherapy and rehabilitation.