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Woman Awakes From 16-Year Coma-Like State
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - For 16 years, Patricia White Bull
was unable to speak, swallow or move much. Her slipped into a
catatonic state while delivering her fourth child.
On Christmas Eve, she suddenly snapped back to consciousness.
"Don't do that," she blurted out when nurses were trying to
fix her
nursing home bed.
Doctors cannot explain why Ms. White Bull, 42, awakened. Her
mother, Snowflake Flower, said it was a Christmas miracle
from
God.
Ms. White Bull - known as "Happi" - has been speaking her
children's names, catching up on family developments and
spending a lot of time just watching her children and
smiling.
"I just went up to her and gave her a hug, and she gave me a
hug
back," her oldest child, Cindi, told the Albuquerque Journal.
"It was
the first time she had ever hugged back. It was scary at
first. It
was overwhelming emotionally."
Ms. White Bull's speech is clear but limited. She has talked
very
little but listened a lot. Her hands, which had been clenched
tightly
for 16 years, have loosened.
She has been driven up into the mountains to breathe the
fresh air.
She has been wheeled around a shopping mall. She has eaten a
small bite of pizza. And on Monday, with her ability to
swallow
improving, she ate chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy.
Pointing to new running shoes, she said: "I'm going to run."
Doctors say Ms. White Bull's condition was caused by a blood
clot that lodged in her lung and caused her to stop breathing
while
her son Mark Jr. was being delivered by Caesarean section.
She
was resuscitated but suffered brain damage from lack of
oxygen.
Cindi, Mark Jr., 16, and Ms. White Bull's other children,
Floris, 17,
and Jesse, 19, have been raised by their father on the
Standing
Rock Sioux Reservation in South Dakota. They rushed back to
Albuquerque when they heard their mother had awakened from
the
vegetative state they had been told would last the rest of
her life.
For three years after Ms. White Bull slipped into a catatonic
state,
her husband kept the children in Albuquerque, where he was a
computer programmer for the city. But then, he said, "I grew
to
accept that nothing was going to change."
He moved his children to the reservation so they could be
raised
with the help of his family. He took a job with the Standing
Rock
Sioux tribal government. And he sought a divorce.
But now, "If she recovers and she wants to re-establish a
relationship with me, I'm here," he said.
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