A seven-year-old girl has woken from a coma after listening to her favourite Adele song on the radio, just minutes after doctors told her parents to say goodbye to their daughter.
Charlotte Neve suffered a brain haemorrhage in her sleep in April. She was taken to Leeds Hospital in the UK where she underwent surgery to stop the bleeding on her brain.
Doctors stopped the haemorrhaging, but Charlotte was left in a coma. Two days later she suffered a series of strokes and doctors told her mother Leila, 31, that there was little hope of her surviving.
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But as Leila climbed into her daughter’s hospital bed to say goodbye, Charlotte’s favourite song — Adele’s ‘Rolling in the Deep’ — came on the radio. Leila started sing to her as they had done together previously and her daughter smiled for the first time since the haemorrhage.
Within minutes she had regained consciousness and two days later she was speaking and moving, stunning her doctors.
Two months have passed since Charlotte woke from her coma and she is learning to walk again and has even gone back to school and dance classes.
“It’s a complete miracle. Doctors told me to say goodbye and I thought I was going to lose my little girl,” Leila told the UK’s Telegraph.
“I climbed into her hospital bed to give her a cuddle — she was wired up to machines and unresponsive — and Adele came on the radio.
“I started singing it to her because she loves her and we used to sing that song together.
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“Charlotte started smiling and I couldn’t believe it. It was the first time she had reacted to anything since the haemorrhage. The nurses were astounded and told me to keep singing, and she smiled again.”
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