Mute man shouts for joy
NZPA-AP Albertville, Alabama A man who had to use a computer and sign language to communicate for 17 years can speak again — at least in a halting, guttural manner — after falling through a store window and gashing his head. Lynn Ray Collins, aged 33, lost his voice in 1972 when hit by a
car, an accident which caused brain damage and left him in a coma for 11 weeks. Last week he fell through a plate glass window. As more than 1.4 litres of blood flowed from the 23cm cut, Mr Collins began answering paramedics’ questions. Recovering at Boaz-Albertville Medical Centre, a hoarse Mr
Collins yesterday uttered, for a reporter, the words: “I feel won-der-ful!” “The only thing that points to some explanation is the excessive loss of blood,” Mr Collins’ doctor, Dr Raymond Ufford, said. “That is a lot of blood to lose and watching that happen, I think he realised he wants to live, so he is trying to speak.”.
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