A teenager from the UK has woken up from a coma of about 11 months, which makes his family think about how they will explain the coronavirus pandemic to him, according to reports this week.
Joseph Flavill, 19, of Staffordshire, suffered serious brain injury after being hit by a car on March 1, 2020, about three weeks before the United Kingdom entered its first national exclusion.
“He will not know anything about the pandemic because he has been asleep for ten months,” his aunt Sally Flavill Smith told the Guardian on Tuesday. “If someone had told me a year ago what would have happened this past year, I would not have believed it. I have no idea how Joseph was going to understand what we all went through.”
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The teenager spent months in Leicester General Hospital before being moved to Adderley Green Neurological Rehabilitation Center in Stoke-on-Trent.
During that time, he caught and recovered the coronavirus twice.
Flavill Smith said the family had not yet tried to explain the extent of the pandemic, but they were trying to let him know via video calls that they could not be with him in person due to virus restrictions.
“We do not really have the time to go into the pandemic terribly – it just does not really feel like that, does it? If he can actually have face-to-face contact, this is the opportunity to actually try to explain to him what happened, ”Flavill Smith was quoted as saying by the news website.
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Although he did not fully recover, the teenager began to move his limbs and he responded to his family by blinking and smiling, his family said.
“We still have a long way to go ahead, but the steps he has taken over the past three weeks have been absolutely incredible,” Flavill Smith added.
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Starting Wednesday, the family raised nearly £ 33,000 (about $ 40,000) to support Flavill in its long-term recovery.