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Man's love wakes wife from four-year coma
By Zhang Xuanchen |
January 10, 2011, Monday
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A FORMER singer in east China's Shandong Province has waken up his comatose wife after singing love songs at her bedside for four years, and at doctors' advice, let her get pregnant to heal her brain damage.
The couple said they still felt it was a miracle that they could have a daughter, who is now more than two years old, Shandong Business Daily reported today.
Song Yuhuan, 36, fell into coma after being put on a drip for inflammation in a hospital in Liaocheng City in June 2001. The drug used on her is called herba houttuyniae and has been banned since 2006 after several fatal accidents.
Song's husband, Zhang Yuhua, said he was lucky the accident didn't take the life of his wife. He quit his singer job and sang only to one person, his motionless and wordless wife at home.
Every day, Zhang sang her favorite songs while changing her clothes and cleaning her bed. His voice could be heard all day long, said Zhang's mother.
The miracle came on a winter morning in 2005, when Zhang suddenly saw a teardrop rolling off his wife's closed eye. He cried when their eyes finally met. But Song was still paralyzed due to brain damage.
Song asked for divorce because she felt being such a burden to her husband, the newspaper said. But Zhang refused. "Everyone said I should give up and I said I can't. I just can't because I love her," Zhang told Shandong Business Daily.
The couple had a daughter in 2008. Though Song is still wheelchair-bound, she can do some basic housework and take care of herself.
The couple said they still felt it was a miracle that they could have a daughter, who is now more than two years old, Shandong Business Daily reported today.
Song Yuhuan, 36, fell into coma after being put on a drip for inflammation in a hospital in Liaocheng City in June 2001. The drug used on her is called herba houttuyniae and has been banned since 2006 after several fatal accidents.
Song's husband, Zhang Yuhua, said he was lucky the accident didn't take the life of his wife. He quit his singer job and sang only to one person, his motionless and wordless wife at home.
Every day, Zhang sang her favorite songs while changing her clothes and cleaning her bed. His voice could be heard all day long, said Zhang's mother.
The miracle came on a winter morning in 2005, when Zhang suddenly saw a teardrop rolling off his wife's closed eye. He cried when their eyes finally met. But Song was still paralyzed due to brain damage.
Song asked for divorce because she felt being such a burden to her husband, the newspaper said. But Zhang refused. "Everyone said I should give up and I said I can't. I just can't because I love her," Zhang told Shandong Business Daily.
The couple had a daughter in 2008. Though Song is still wheelchair-bound, she can do some basic housework and take care of herself.
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