Hospitals and Healthcare

Then one day medical staff realised he wasn’t stuck in minimal consciousness when they were testing him with different objects.

They gave him a cup, and he put it to his mouth to drink. They gave him a hairbrush, and he brushed his hair.

“I started crying,” Donna says.

Then they gave him tissues. Instead of using them blow his nose, Thomas passed them to his mother, so she could wipe her tears.

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