Man in A Coma Wakes After 5 Months! Wife leaves him!!

United States
October 20, 2007 6:51am CST
A man was in a coma after his car crashed with him and his wife in the car. He was brought to the hospital already in a coma, the wife had minor injuries. They have 3 kids together. After only ONE week the wife ordered his feeding tube taken out! Just one week and she did that! His family fought that, of course, and the court ordered the feeding tube be gievn back to him, after 5 days! The guy had to go 5 days without any food, because of his wife. The man woke up 5 months after first going into his coma. He was talking, and walked out of the hospital with minimal help! :) It was a great day for him...but then... His wife filed for DIVORCE after he woke up! I just think she is a terrible terrible woman! How could you do something like this? The man is fighting for custody of their 3 children, I really hope that he wins!
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@archer1811 (1098)
• Philippines
20 Oct 07
I hope too. I dont really know what I can call that woman, instead of feelin' happy because of what happen to her husband, she filed for divorce? Maybe she's blaming his husband why they been in that accident. But its not right, no one wants to involved in an accident. How I wish that the man got the custody for their children not the hypocrite woman that he married and be with for years.
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• United States
20 Oct 07
Yeah I know. It's a great day because he is finally awake after a 5 month a coma, and he gets a divorce thrown in his face immediatly! How awful for him! And what an AWFUl woman. I'm not even sure he was driving. The news station didn't say it...it did show a picture of the car. And too me, the passenger side looked a lot worse than the drivers side. So maybe it was the wife driving O.o
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• Philippines
24 Oct 07
a very worst thing that happen to him, hope that the court will give him the custody of their children..at least God gave him the second life to take care of their children coz maybe the mother is untrusty for the care of their young ones.
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@raychill (6525)
• United States
20 Oct 07
Do you know what happened in their life prior to the car accident? You can't really judge his wife if you don't know anything about their relationship. I don't mean that to be mean of course. Just to give you a non real life example, Law and Order SVU this past week had a story about a women who'd been beaten and was in a coma. To make an hour long episode story short when the wife came out of a coma she didn't remember anything that had happened within the past 6 months. Her husband took their child and left her. Why? Because she'd been having an affair and was pregnant with the other mans kid. I was talking to my co-worker about the episode and he was like "i was glad he left her she was mean" and I was like "yeah but she didn't remember that's gotta suck"... you see two differnt sides. Now even in this situation it's not nearly the same and it's real life. But you don't know what happened in their life and maybe they were in this accident because they were fighting. Maybe they were already planning to get divorced? maybe he was an abuser. You don't really know anything about these people and while on the one hand it's wrong of the women and really mean, you don't know what happened and it's just as wrong of you to wish that on that women.
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• United States
21 Oct 07
It's not that she left him that bothers me the most. The things that bother me the most that after just one week she ordered his feeding tube removed. And that the same day he came out of a coma she left him. She could have at least wiated and not slapped that in his face hours after he woke up. And plus, even if she's been planning on leaving him for a while, she knew she had NO right to order his feeing tube removed. To me that makes her look guilty of just wanting him out of the picture for good. I know you aren't trying to be mean :) I respect everyone's opinions! :)
@raychill (6525)
• United States
20 Oct 07
yeah I just don't think you can judge a book by it's cover or a person by an article.
• Puerto Rico
20 Oct 07
I saw it too. Seems that things were already not working out, who knows what kind of man he was before the accident. But anyway, I am not going to try guessing. I'm glad he got out of his coma and "life goes on".
@chaime (1152)
• Philippines
20 Oct 07
oh my goodness, how terrible for the man. Some people can be so insensitive, i can just imagine how the man feels. it's so sad, but that's life and I guess that's better than staying with a relationship when there is no more respect.
• Canada
20 Oct 07
This is absolutely ludacrist!!! What ever happened to "in sickness and health" You would think that she would be happy he had pulled through! Why would she order a feeding tube removed?!? This makes no sense to me at all!! She was in the accident with him you would think she would be thankful for both their lives!!! I just don't know what else to say with this one it is truly unbelievable!
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
20 Oct 07
To try to end his life after only five days is pretty sickening. But, I really don't know enough to comment on why she is filed for divorce. They could have been having problems before the accident. In a situation like this, I feel I would have to know all the details befpre commenting on this.
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@muscare (3068)
• Australia
22 Oct 07
What a selfish cow. It makes me wonder what kind of relationship they had in the first place, if she was in such a hurry to end his life! Sure, it would be hard to know when, if ever, was going to be the right time to remove tubes, but I can't really imagine anyone doing it after a week! Sort of makes me wonder how the accident happened in the first place?!
• United States
24 Oct 07
Yeah I've been wondering about the accident too. The passenger side looked worse to me than the drivers side, and he got hurt a lot more. So maybe he wasn't the driver, like a lot of people think. I don't know lol.
@muscare (3068)
• Australia
27 Oct 07
I doubt it would be the first time something shifty like that has occured, and she sure sounds the sort to pull a stunt like that. I think she'll get what's coming, regardless!
@DavidReedy (2378)
• United States
25 Oct 07
Wow, maybe there's a side to him we don't know about. I'm open to that possibility but she sounds like a cold-hearted ***ch.
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
21 Oct 07
What a horrible wife ....She must have really not cared one thing about her husband.It sounds as though she wanted him to die...My God he will be better off without her,i don't see how anyone could be that heartless...I would not do that to a perfect stranger much less the father of my children..If those kids grow up and find that out,they will hate her for that,and since the family knew about it,im sure is will get out...I pity that poor woman she is a SICKO..I do hope he gets his children too,I would not think she could be trusted..She a bad bad person...
@slickcut (8141)
• United States
21 Oct 07
After reading all the comments about maybe they had a bad marriage ,i was just thinking that maybe they did,and she already wanted a divorce,and if he was a bad guy then thats fine let her get a divorce...HowEver that does not give her the right to try and Kill him by taking his feeding tube,that part is cruel...
@cefaz_21 (2596)
• Philippines
24 Oct 07
That is a sad thing for that man..I mean after 5 months in coma,waking up and then finding out that your wife filed a divorce..what more? he'll learn also that his wife tried to take out the feeding tube from him... I hope he'll win about the kids..He deserve something better,something nice..:)
• Canada
23 Oct 07
I couldn't imagine being like that if it were my hubby in the coma I'd be hugging and kissing him like crazy as soon as he woke up! Sounds like she has other issues with the marriage, but either way I think she went about it in a very cold way! Hopefully the better parents ends up with the kids! PurpleTeddyBear
• United States
24 Oct 07
I dont know what caused the accident in the first place was it over a fight they was having then was it ment to happen Id have to know more of the story before Id judge it
• United States
22 Oct 07
Wow, that's pretty bad! One of the 2 of them sounds like they are a fairly bad person. Hard to tell which one. Don't know enough about the story for sure to determine.
• United States
22 Oct 07
I also believe that she is a terrible person. I hope he gets his kids.
• United States
22 Oct 07
Hi gb! :) Thanks for joining, welcome to the site. Thank you for the response! :) I just couldn't believe she would give him a divorce immediatly after he woke up. At least give him some time!
• United States
24 Oct 07
That happened here in Arizona where I live, near Mesa. What a terrible woman she is! I hope he wins and she gets nothing.
• United States
24 Oct 07
Yeah I live in Arizona too! That's how I knew about it, was watching the news. I was shocked!
@Ravenladyj (22904)
• United States
21 Oct 07
OMG thats just messed up!! makes me wonder what was goin on in the marriage before the accident ya know....I mean thats really shady as far as I'm concerned...ONE WEEK?! Thats just fishy to me...
@wisedragon (2325)
• Philippines
21 Oct 07
That's terrible indeed. She must have been unhappy even before the accident. Perhaps she was praying for the accident to happen. Luckily the man fought for his life and now fighting for his children.
• Kottayam, India
21 Oct 07
Are we living in this world,no mercy really pathetic!!!
@psyche49f (2502)
• Philippines
21 Oct 07
Wow, that's truly amazing...how the man woke up after being in coma for 5 months...that's the good news..but the bad news is that the wife seemed not interested in taking him back and is even filing a divorce! That's the sad part...yup, hopefully, this marital battle will have a happy ending...the poor man is sure to be very upset over the wife's irresponsible behavior--a clear indication that she is the first person to wish ill for her husband. You're right..hope he wins the custody case...
@fracktion (154)
• Philippines
21 Oct 07
We all have our reasons no matter how stupid others think of it. His wife must have a reason for leaving him although it is particularly unacceptable to us. I myself hope that the man win the case for his children. She has a reason... although it could be a sellfish or stupid reason... Just give her what she wants... freedom. But taking their children with her?? HELL NO. lol.
@marabdl86 (615)
• United States
21 Oct 07
Yeh that's sick if it happened like that. but there's also all these other thigns you don't know about. How do you know that they were having a big argument that caused the car wreck? how do you know that the guy isn't a butthole? How do you know the guy didn't beat his wife? you see I'm not goignt o make any comment on this. But say the guy was notthing but nice and the wife still acted like this, then she is going to get what's coming to her.