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Brain-damaged firefighter wakes seven years on
(Filed: 04/05/2005)
Telegraph.co.ukAn American firefighter, who was brain damaged after being buried under flaming debris while on duty over seven years ago, has amazed doctors by returning to his former self.
Donald Herbert, 43, woke up and suddenly asked staff at his nursing home in Buffalo, New York, where his wife Linda was.
The words came after sitting silently in a wheelchair and watching television since 1995.
Mr Herbert, 43, became talkative and regained clarity when his family visited him after the request.
He spent more than 14 hours catching up on news about his wife, four sons, friends and former firefighting colleagues before going into a deep sleep for 30 hours.
He has since maintained an improved condition but not to the extent of the first revival.
Mr Herbert was buried under flaming debris, while searching an apartment building in December 1995. He went without oxygen for about six minutes before being rescued.
He was in a coma for more than two months and when he came out of it, he had lost his sight, his speech was halting and slurred, and he did not recognise loved ones.
Doctors said that such recoveries are “almost unheard of” and that they do not understand why they happen.
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