In reply to just ed:
Great, positive news, fingers crossed for a full recovery.
A climber who slipped into a coma after suffering a brain aneurysm regained conciousness for Christmas Day - as his baby daughter was born on the next ward.
Andrew Earl should have been celebrating the birth of his first-born, but instead he was recovering from brain surgery after a ruptured aneurysm meant he was rushed into hospital.
His partner Suzan Dudink gave birth to their first child hours after he was brought out of a two-week coma in a Newcastle hospital and the new mother and child are now spending hours at his bedside hoping to spark his recovery.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1342683/Climber-Andrew-Earl-awakes-...