He recalls the next moments clearly, “The nurse came out and said, ‘I think you need to come in; she’s talking.’”
He went in expecting to have a final conversation with his wife. He recalls, “I walked in, and Jill was talking. The first thing she said was, ‘Get me out of here. I want to go home.’”
Ryan was shocked but unsure whether it was just lucid muttering and hence proceeded to pepper her with questions she could only answer if she was fully there. He asked her their pets’ names and a few mental math questions, all of which she answered correctly. She even asked to go to her favorite Mexican restaurant for dinner.
Jill later said she did not remember the coma; all she felt was that she had been away for some time and then had come back. In an interview, when Ryan was asked what he thought brought his wife back, he replied immediately, saying, “God. Divine intervention. I honestly feel that way.”
Not everything went back to the way it was after Jill had woken up. She had to relearn some of her motor skills, like brushing her teeth or tying her shoelaces, all from scratch.
