Real Life Case very --- recent

Airport hero John Smeaton, who prevented a terriest attack several weeks earlier, has woken from a two-week coma, his father said today.
The 32-year-old has been in intensive care in hospital since suffering an asthma attack.
He opened his eyes yesterday and was able to recognise his family and fiancee Christy MacPhedran, who flew from New York to be at his bedside.
His father Iain Smeaton said the family were delighted by his progress.
He said: "We are really happy that he has come through but he is still not out of the woods yet and has a long way to go.
"He can't communicate verbally but he can communicate by blinking his eyelids and looking at us and there's just a normal progression."
This took place only a few weeks ago on october 22

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/airport-hero-wakes-from-twoweek-coma-968988.html


For 20 years, Sarah Scantlin was seemingly unaware of the world around her after she was hit by a drunk driver in an accident that sent her into a comatose state in September of 1984. Then in February, she shocked her parents and doctors when she began to speak. In her first national television interview, after undergoing surgery on her long-unused limbs and speech therapy to unlock her long-dormant tongue, Scantlin speaks with The Early Show national correspondent Tracy Smith in a two-part interview to be broadcast Thursday and Friday. Smith also speaks with Sarah's parents, Jim and Betsy Scantlin, who never imagined they would talk to their daughter again. In a February interview on The Early Show , Sarah’s father recounted the phone call he and his wife got, informing them of the unimaginable.
This was a few years ago.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/05/earlyshow/series/main760296.shtml