My Husband Was In A Coma For Six Years—Then I Noticed Something Was Changing

up.

Or that’s what we believed.

The doctors explained it to me in that careful, modulated tone they use when the news is terrible but not immediately fatal: traumatic brain injury, swelling, coma of undetermined duration. They couldn’t say when he might wake up. They couldn’t say if. They used phrases like “persistent vegetative state” and “meaningful continue reading …