Speech and physical therapy in store after 19-year coma
Rehab Regs, July 17, 2003
His first word after 19 years in a partial coma was "Mom." Now a 39-year-old Arkansas man, whose progress made headlines, is receiving speech therapy three days a week and his doctor wants to give him more intensive physical therapy. Terry Wallis was left a quadriplegic and fell into a coma after a 1984 car accident, according to news reports. While he emerged partially from that coma, he could communicate only by blinking his eyes or grunting. Then, on June 13, Wallis amazed his family and doctors, by calling out "Mom" to his mother and later asking for a Pepsi. Since then his vocabulary has steadily increased and he is considered fully emerged from his coma, although he remains a resident at the Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
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