Man trapped in coma was AWAKE for 12 years but couldn't move or speak

A man has revealed the living nightmare of waking up from a coma – only to find he was unable to tell anyone.

Martin Pistorius slipped into the coma aged 12 and could not move, communicate or do anything for himself for 12 years.

And to his horror, when he did awake, he was unable to communicate his return.

The South African youngster was diagnosed with a debilitating form of meningitis in the late 1980s and was left unable to move, speak or even make eye contact .... http://www.mirror.co.uk