Loving kiss ends wife’s coma
Monday 26th January 2009, 2:30PM GMT.
Andrew and Emma Ray, with Ella, four, and Alexander, two, at Weston Park
The kiss of life had already saved Shropshire mother Emma Ray but a special kiss from her husband Andrew brought her back from the silence of a coma.
Mrs Ray, of Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, fell into a deep coma after suffering a cardiac arrest while in the passenger seat of the car in Shrewsbury.
She had given birth to her son, Alexander, just 10 days earlier.
The actions of her husband, a retired paramedic and specialist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, saved her life but when she would wake from the coma nobody knew.
However, 12 days later during a bedside vigil at the RSH Mr Ray, 37, begged his wife for a kiss and to his astonishment she reacted. Today, two years on although Mrs Ray needs constant care, her husband is delighted with her progress.
See also – Kiss kept family’s hope alive
By Kirsty Smallman
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