LONG COMA ENDS
PATIENT REGAINS CONSCIOUSNESS AFTER 100 DAYS. Jenny Aitken, twenty-eight-year-old bus conductress, regained consciousness after lying in a coma for 101 days at the Wemyss Memorial Hospital, Fife. But she is paralysed on one side, and is not yet strong enough to undergo the delicate operation on her brain which the doctors hope will restore her to health. She has been moved from the hospital and is now under the care of eminent Scottish brain specialists. Every day since the accident, her parents, who live in Rodget Street, Anstruther, watched by her bedside, waiting for her to open her eyes and speak. During her months of unconsciousness she was fed artificially with white of egg and beef juice. Instances of a patient remaining in a coma for more than one hundred days are extremely rare.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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137LONG COMA ENDS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1938, Page 9
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