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<\/a>A woman who doctors believed could remain comatose indefinitely recently revived after her husband asked her for a kiss.<\/p>\nJust ten days after giving birth to her son, Telford, Shropshire resident Emma Ray suffered a heart attack and collapsed while shopping with her husband, Andrew. Andrew performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on her, after which she was taken to a hospital where doctors were able to restart her heart.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe could wake up the following day, she could wake up in a month, or you may be left with a sleeping beauty,\u201d Andrew Ray said a doctor told him, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
Andrew went to great lengths to try and rouse his 34 year-old wife from her comatose state, playing recordings of their baby son Alexander and of their daughter Ella and songs from their wedding reception.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would speak softly to her, clasp her hand, pinch her fingers, all the time telling her I loved her or begging her to wake up. By the time I asked her to kiss me I was approaching my wits’ end,\u201d he told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
He bent over his wife\u2019s hospital bed and said \u201cEmma, if you can hear me, please just give me a kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c’What happened next was beyond my wildest dreams,\u201d he told the Daily Mail. \u201cShe turned her head towards mine, puckered up her lips and gave me a little kiss.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI couldn’t believe it. My heart felt like it was going to leap from my chest \u2013it suddenly felt like a huge weight had been lifted.\u201d<\/p>\n
Doctors who witnessed the kiss were astonished by her response.<\/p>\n
Emma ray continued to drift in an out of consciousness. Her brain had been oxygen-starved after her heart attack, resulting in short-term memory loss.<\/p>\n
She was eventually allowed home but requires ongoing rehabilitation for the brain damage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe recovery is awful because I have so little memory,\u201d Emma told the Daily Mail.<\/p>\n
Her husband said he was grateful his wife had survived.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe can walk quite well holding hands now, and at least our kids still have a mother and I still have a wife,\u201d he said, according to the Daily Mail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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