Husband's "Rollicking" Woke Up Woman From Coma

Posted by Alex in Medicine on February 23, 2008 at 4:41 pm


Yvonne Sullivan, 28, fell into a coma during childbirth (after hearing that her newborn son died during a traumatic birth).

Weeks later, after doctors told her husband that they might have to switch off her lifesupport machine, her husband managed to waken her up with some "rollicking."

Her husband Dominic said:

"When the doctors told me to think about turning off the life support I got angry," he added. "I grabbed her hand and began shouting at her. I gave her a bloody good rollicking. I’d already had to explain to Ryan that his brother Clinton had died, and that his mummy might not survive. He said he’d be cross with the doctors if they let mummy go to heaven. I kept telling her to pull through. Then I left the room to get some air.

"I came back two hours later and she had started to breath. It was incredible. Sometimes you find powers you just didn’t know you had.

Link – via Liberal Avenger (who, like me, thought "rollicking" meant something else completely!)


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19 comments to "Husband's "Rollicking" Woke Up Woman From Coma"

  1. Geekazoid
    February 23rd, 2008 at 5:07 pm

    Nice story. Reminds me of one of my most favorite movie scenes of all time (as well as most emotional), the 'drowning' scene from 'The Abyss.'

  2. MrPumpernickel
    February 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    "Sometimes you find powers you just didn’t know you had."

    And sometimes you look for meaning in coincidental situations.

  3. stacyj
    February 23rd, 2008 at 5:41 pm

    *laugh* I was imagining 'rollicking' to have a totally different meaning here, too. Nevertheless, what a sweet, happy story =)

  4. Miss Cellania
    February 23rd, 2008 at 6:02 pm

    In the Fark version, he gave her a "good tongue-lashing." Which of course, made the meaning crystal clear.

  5. DrJones
    February 23rd, 2008 at 6:26 pm

    Definitely read that as "Husband's 'Rick Rolling' woke up woman from coma"

  6. VonSkippy
    February 23rd, 2008 at 7:43 pm

    Post hoc ergo propter hoc.

    Whatever happened to people being LOGICAL???

  7. Christophe
    February 23rd, 2008 at 8:15 pm

    romp, romp, romp it up!

  8. Prairie Dog
    February 23rd, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Hey so what if that's not why she woke up, what's your point?

  9. ted
    February 23rd, 2008 at 9:18 pm

    Yeah, not as fun as what I thought rollicking meant.

    Thought maybe he was going for one last kick at the can, and woke her up mid-boink.

  10. tona b.
    February 23rd, 2008 at 10:13 pm

    DrJones: I thought the same thing! :D

    I'm still confused... so rollicking is 'shouting & scolding', right?

  11. Jasper
    February 24th, 2008 at 5:56 am

    I think it may be a bad sign that I read that as rickrolling! I think I may now have to exit the internet.

    Rollicking: telling-off, shouting at, scolding

  12. Johnald_Chaffinch
    February 24th, 2008 at 6:43 am

    powers schmowers

  13. MoniA
    February 24th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    So she was in a coma from phycological shock of hearing that her baby had died. That's freaky. Glad it had a good ending for her. That's sad about the newborn though.

  14. MoniA
    February 24th, 2008 at 8:33 am

    Psychological I meant

  15. Less Than Jake
    February 24th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

    i've always got the impression that rollicking was a politer way of saying bollocking, which means the same thing in britain.

    i guess you guys have bollocks in the US right, (pardon the phrasing)

  16. L
    February 24th, 2008 at 2:15 pm

    Badly written piece. At first, they say that she fell into a coma after being told about her baby's death, making it sound like she fell into a swoon (what is this, the 1890s?). Bad news doesn't generally put you on life support, unless there's some other problem. The blood poisoning probably had more to do with her coma, and she might've been comatose whether she'd been told her baby had died or not.

  17. nipples
    February 25th, 2008 at 7:49 am

    yay, you'll forget about us shortly after reading this, our 15 minutes of fame!

    no tits, no story.

  18. Ryan H
    February 26th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    Rick Astley saves lives!

  19. JET
    February 26th, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    Started to "breath"?


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