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Just read this on AOL - amazing after all this time! 
A man has regained consciousness after spending 19 years in a coma as the result of a car crash, greeting his mother who was waiting at his bedside.
Terry Wallis, 39, had been at a nursing home in America since the July 1984 crash.
His daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, is now 19 and Mr Wallis said he wants to walk again, for her. He is a quadriplegic as a result of the crash.
His mother, Angilee, called her son's return to consciousness a miracle.
"I couldn't tell you my first thought, I just fell over on the floor,'' she said.
Alesha Badgley, of the Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Arkansas, said: "He started out with 'Mom' and surprised her and then it was 'Pepsi' and then it was 'milk'. And now it's anything he wants to say.''
His father, Jerry, said his son uttered his first word on June 12, was able to talk a little a day later and has improved ever since.
Terry Wallis's wife, Sandi, said her husband was riding with a friend when their car left the road and plunged into a creek.
Mr Wallis and his friend were found the next day underneath a bridge. The friend was dead and Mr Wallis was comatose.
"It's been hard dealing with it, it's been hard realising the man I married can't be there,'' she said. "We all, the whole family, missed out on his company.''
While in a coma, Mr Wallis spent most of his time at the rehabilitation centre, but his family took him out for weekends and special occasions.
"The doctor said that's why he remembers things; we might have kept his mind going,'' Sandi Wallis said.
A man has regained consciousness after spending 19 years in a coma as the result of a car crash, greeting his mother who was waiting at his bedside.
Terry Wallis, 39, had been at a nursing home in America since the July 1984 crash.
His daughter, Amber, who was born shortly before the accident, is now 19 and Mr Wallis said he wants to walk again, for her. He is a quadriplegic as a result of the crash.
His mother, Angilee, called her son's return to consciousness a miracle.
"I couldn't tell you my first thought, I just fell over on the floor,'' she said.
Alesha Badgley, of the Stone County Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Arkansas, said: "He started out with 'Mom' and surprised her and then it was 'Pepsi' and then it was 'milk'. And now it's anything he wants to say.''
His father, Jerry, said his son uttered his first word on June 12, was able to talk a little a day later and has improved ever since.
Terry Wallis's wife, Sandi, said her husband was riding with a friend when their car left the road and plunged into a creek.
Mr Wallis and his friend were found the next day underneath a bridge. The friend was dead and Mr Wallis was comatose.
"It's been hard dealing with it, it's been hard realising the man I married can't be there,'' she said. "We all, the whole family, missed out on his company.''
While in a coma, Mr Wallis spent most of his time at the rehabilitation centre, but his family took him out for weekends and special occasions.
"The doctor said that's why he remembers things; we might have kept his mind going,'' Sandi Wallis said.
