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A woman from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) who was seriously injured in a traffic accident in 1991 has made a seemingly miraculous recovery after emerging from a 27-year-long coma.
Munira Abdulla, who was aged 32 at the time of the accident, suffered a severe brain injury after the car she was travelling in collided with a bus on the way to pick up her son from school.
Omar Webair, who was then just four years old, was sitting in the back of the vehicle with her, but was left unscathed as his mother cradled him in her arms moments before the accident.
Ms Abdulla - who was being driven by her brother-in-law - was left seriously injured, but last year regained consciousness in a German hospital.
Omar has opened up about the accident and about his mother's progress following years of treatment in an interview with the UAE-based newspaper The National.

"I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she would wake up," Omar told the newspaper on Monday.
"The reason I shared her story is to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones; don't consider them dead when they are in such a state," he added.
"My mother was sitting with me in the back seat. When she saw the crash coming, she hugged me to protect me from the blow."
He was unharmed, suffering just a bruise to the head, but his mother was left untreated for hours.

Ms Abdulla was eventually taken to hospital, and later transferred to London. There, she was declared to be in a vegetative state - unresponsive, but able to sense pain - The National reports.
She was then returned to Al Ain, a city in the UAE on the border with Oman where she lived, and moved to various medical facilities according to insurance requirements.
She remained there for a few years, fed through a tube and kept alive. She underwent physiotherapy to ensure her muscles would not weaken through lack of movement.
In 2017, the family was offered a grant by the Crown Prince Court, a government body in Abu Dhabi, for Ms Abdulla to be transferred to Germany.
There, she underwent a number of surgeries to correct her severely shortened arm and leg muscles, and she was given medication to improve her state, including her wakefulness.

UAE woman Munira Abdulla wakes up after 27 years in a coma

Munira Abdulla, from the United Arab Emirates, had been unconscious since 1991 after a car crash.

www.bbc.com

 

[Robot Carnival]

gonna suck to catch up all the events over the last 25+ years... 9/11, all the conflict in the Middle East, not to mention all the tech advancements that changed our daily life.

 

[Barsinister]

Little hair of the dog should fix it.....

 

[MiyazakiHatesKojima]

Wow, she woke up just in time to binge watch all 7 seasons of Game of Thrones right before the series finale

 

[Halo is Back]

gonna suck to catch up all the events over the last 25+ years... 9/11, all the conflict in the Middle East, not to mention all the tech advancements that changed our daily life.

Not saying its "cool" to be in a coma, I do find it fascinating to wake up years later and you get to explore so much history and pop culture, I think experiencing that would be pretty cool.

 

[RPS37]

Part of me thinks it would be really scary to just wake up in the future like that.

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Imagine going to sleep at 32 and waking up 59, freaky shit.

 

[infinitys_7th]

I think the greater horror here is that about third of her life just disappeared.

Hell, more than that. With the stress of the coma and the treatments, she probably will not live past 65.

 

[nikolino840]

Not saying its "cool" to be in a coma, I do find it fascinating to wake up years later and you get to explore so much history and pop culture, I think experiencing that would be pretty cool.

Not so much cool.... She was not sleeping... the brain never turn 100% operative...with the school we saw a woman After a coma and i don't Remember all but She talk and Walk like Forrest Gump

 

[Halo is Back]

Not so much cool.... She was not sleeping... the brain never turn 100% operative...with the school we saw a woman After a coma and i don't Remember all but She talk and Walk like Forrest Gump

yea......that’s exactly why I said it would not be cool.......

 

[Geki-D]

gonna suck to catch up all the events over the last 25+ years... 9/11, all the conflict in the Middle East, not to mention all the tech advancements that changed our daily life.

Downtown Dubai in 1992:

Downtown Dubai now:

 

[Chairman Tickles]

Downtown Dubai in 1992:

Downtown Dubai now:

I see your dubai and I raise you a Shenzhen:

1990-2015, 20,000 ---> 12,000,000

 

[Mista]

Part of me thinks it would be really scary to just wake up in the future like that.

It is indeed scary. She woke up after 27 years! She’ll be in a shock when she sees her grown son, the city she live at has developed very well, she look older than she remembers and imagine catching up with all what happened during all those years. Nah man this is just tooo much, which makes it scary.

 

[Tesseract]

she probably experienced a year or so of some fucked up dream world, hopefully mostly at peace

comas are freaky af, if i ever fall into one i want doctors to kill me

 

[TheShadowLord]

Part of me thinks it would be really scary to just wake up in the future like that.

Only if you could be cryogenically frozen so you wouldn't age

 

[Red Crayon Aristocrat]

Man, is she in for some surprises!

Someone really needs to film her reaction to things like a smartphone, I mean just imagine a person from 1991 seeing a modern iphone.

 

[Yoshi]

yea......that’s exactly why I said it would not be cool.......

Even if it was "just sleep" without any side effects: Losing a third of your life expectancy isn't cool either way.

 

[Noboru Wataya]

Even if it was "just sleep" without any side effects: Losing a third of your life expectancy isn't cool either way.

He literally said it wasn’t cool.

 

[Yoshi]

He literally said it wasn’t cool.

I know, the only reason I would ever use that term is because I am citing someone. He said the reason the quoted person thought it was not cool (not sleeping, but a result of brain damage) is why is said it wasn't. I added that even if all of this was void and it actually was just sleep, it would suck.