It was in 1991 when 32-year-old Munira Abdulla picked up her then 4-year-old son Omar from school. The mother’s car collided with a school bus, leaving her with a severe brain injury. The child suffered only a bruise but she was left in a coma. Even though doctors said she would never wake up again, Omar, now 32, never gave up hope that his mom would regain consciousness!
Last year, Abdulla finally woke up, according to a news outlet from the United Arab Emirates ‘The National’. Her accident occurred in UAE but she was moved to a hospital in Germany where she regained consciousness last year. Omar told The National: “I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she will wake up.”
He also said that her mother’s brother-in-law drove her to pick him up at school as “there was no bus at the school to take me home.” His mother sat next to him in the backseat when the accident happened. “When she saw the crash coming she hugged me to protect me from the blow,” he recalled. Omar also said he waited hours for help as they didn’t have a cell phone to call emergency services in 1991. She was then taken to a hospital and moved to a hospital in London.
“She was completely immobile, with little awareness of her surroundings.” “Doctors diagnosed a minimally conscious state,” according to The National. The mother was transferred to an Al Ain hospital and tube-fed. Every day, Omar would walk over a mile to the hospital to see her. “I never looked back. “I believe God saved me from bigger problems because of my support for her,” he said.
The Crown Prince Court learned of Abdulla’s story in 2017 and granted them a grant to transfer her to Germany for further treatment. She was then operated on to treat her muscles. “We didn’t even request the grant.” That is something I owe to Sheikh Mohamed [bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi]. “Our leaders are always supportive in these situations, and we appreciate it,” Omar said.
The hospital’s “primary goal was to grant her fragile consciousness the opportunity to develop and prosper in a healthy body, like a delicate plant that requires good soil to grow,” according to Dr. Ahmad Pyll, a neurologist who treated the mother.
Omar told The National about the day she awoke: “She was calling my name.” I was in a state of ecstasy. For years, I had fantasized about this moment, and my name was the first thing she said.” Abdulla is still receiving treatment in Abu Dhabi. She also went to the Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.