Woman Awakens After 6 Years, Slips Back

March 8, 2007

A woman who went into a vegetative state in November of 2000 awoke this week for three days, spoke with her family and a local television station before slipping back on Wednesday. “I’m fine,” Christa Lilly told her mother on Sunday – her first words in eight months. She has awakened four other times for briefer periods. (AP)