Loving kiss ends wife's coma

The kiss of life had already saved Shropshire mother Emma Ray but a special kiss from her husband Andrew brought her back from the silence of a coma.

Mrs Ray, of Wrockwardine Wood, Telford, fell into a deep coma after suffering a cardiac arrest while in the passenger seat of the car in Shrewsbury.

She had given birth to her son, Alexander, just 10 days earlier.

The actions of her husband, a retired paramedic and specialist at the Royal Shrewsbury Hospital, saved her life but when she would wake from the coma nobody knew.

However, 12 days later during a bedside vigil at the RSH Mr Ray, 37, begged his wife for a kiss and to his astonishment she reacted. Today, two years on although Mrs Ray needs constant care, her husband is delighted with her progress.

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By Kirsty Smallman

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Emma Ray in Barmouth last yearnextpage

Andrew and Emma, with Ella and Alexander, at Ella's third birthday party