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AWAKE AT LAST.


A WOMAN who has been unconscious for most of the past six years awoke for three days this week.

Christa Lilly spoke to her family before slipping back into a coma-like state.

"I'm fine," she told her mum on Sunday - her first words
A First Word means the first word someone has said in his/her entire lifetime. Usually it's a sign of language development.


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 in eight months.

She got to see youngest daughter Chelcey, now 12, and three grandchildren.

Christ a has briefly awakened four other times since suffering a heart attack and stroke in 2000.

She told her local TV station in Colorado Springs: "I think it's wonderful. It makes me so happy."

Christa then slipped back into her vegetative state Vegetative State Definition

A coma-like state characterized by open eyes and the appearance of wakefulness is defined as vegetative.
Description

The vegetative state is a chronic or long-term condition.
 which docs say is like a coma -except her eyes stay open.
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Publication:Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Date:Mar 9, 2007
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