Son Omar Webair, a 32-year-old government worker from Abu Dhabi, UAE, revealed how he prayed every day and never lost hope that his beloved mum would reawaken
THE son of a woman who miraculously woke after 27 years in a coma has told how even as doctors gave up hope he slept next to her every night dreaming that she would recover.
Omar Webair was just four years old when he and mum Munira Abdulla were involved in a horrific car smash in 1991.
He escaped the wreckage with a bump to the head while Ms Abdulla suffered a traumatic brain injury.
However, after being treated in the UK, UAE and Germany, she miraculously regained consciousness nearly three decades on from the accident - and uttered his name as her first words.
Today, son Omar, 32, a government worker from Abu Dhabi, UAE, revealed how he prayed every day and never lost hope, even when doctors had.
He told The Sun Online: "I just never, ever gave up hope. The only thing you have is hope.
"I slept by my mother’s side every night in hospital dreaming that she would wake up. She is my mother and, like most people, you would do anything and everything you can for her.
"When I was younger, it was not easy to stay with her at hospital because of school and so on.
"But since around 2008, I’ve been working during the day and staying in the next bed with her at night.
"On weekends I would do her laundry, go shopping for her and so on. I felt like nobody could care for my mother like me.
"I spent every day talking to her, telling her what was happening to me and our family. Just never giving up.
"Most doctors never thought she would wake up, they always said it was not in their hands to help her wake up, they can only give her the best quality of life possible."
Omar, now 32, is the same age as when Ms Abdulla was injured.
She and her brother-in-law, who was driving, had just picked her son up from school in Al Ain, a leafy city in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, when their car crashed into a bus.
Before the impact, Ms Abdulla dived to cradle her son in the back seat – shielding him from the impact.
He managed to escape the wreckage with a bruise to the head, while she was left trapped inside for hours.
Ms Abdulla was taken to hospital and later transferred to one in London.
She was completely unresponsive, with doctors diagnosing her as being in a vegetative state.
She was returned to a hospital in Al Ain, where she would remain for years being tube-fed and undergoing physiotherapy to prevent her muscles deteriorating.
Visits to his mum became part of Omar’s daily routine – making sure to talk to her and give updates about his life and his two sisters.
Omar revealed that despite her minimally conscious state, his mum was listening and managed to retain all the information.
He added: "After all of this, for nearly 30 years, my mother knows everything and feels everything that happened. When we got good grades at school we would tell her, when we had good news we would tell her. And she was listening."
Ms Abdulla spent years being transferred between UAE hospitals and care centres.
However, in April 2017, the Crown Prince Court heard about her story and paid for a comprehensive multidisciplinary programme in Germany.
She was transferred to the Schoen Clinic in Bad Aibling, about 30 miles southeast of Munich.
Dr Ahmad Ryll, Ms Abdulla’s neurologist in Germany, said: "Our primary goal was to grant her fragile consciousness the opportunity to develop and prosper in a healthy body, like a delicate plant that needs good soil to grow."
After months of treatment, she remarkably woke up saying her son’s name in May 2018.
Omar said: "It was an overwhelming feeling of joy. She was having a seizure and blinking in one eye. I called the doctor and helped her, after the seizure she started making noises and they told me that was normal.
"Two or three days later, I was sleeping in the bed next to her, when I woke up to the sound of someone calling my name. It was her.
"I had dreamt of this moment for years and my name was the first she said."
Dr Friedemann Müller, the head physician at the Schoen Clinic Germany, told of his team’s shock and amazement when she woke, describing it as a slow process.
He told NBC News: "None us had ever experienced that someone wakes again after 27 years. It’s not like waking up in the morning. It was a process over weeks as reactions and vocalisations increased and improved.
"When we realised that she was talking with us, we were ecstatic."
The pair can now converse, albeit her voice is strained, and Ms Abdulla is undergoing rehabilitation to increase physical movements.
She had surgery on her hand and can move it, however she is paralysed from the waist down.
Ms Abdulla is back in the UAE and is continuing her recovery process while receiving care from a specialist clinic in Abu Dhbai.
Omar described his frustration at being told there was no hope by doctors, adding: "No matter what they told me, I knew I would hear my mother’s voice again.
"Without the support of Sheikh Mohamed (bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi) my mother would not have spoken again. I am extremely grateful for their help.
"The leaders of our country look after us. We are like a family, if someone is sick they will help and help to pay for treatment.
"I just want anyone who is in this situation to never give up and please look after your loved ones.
"Every decision I made I did for her and put myself in her shoes. And now this miracle has happened. Never give up."
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