“To me she was like gold; the more time passed by, the more valuable she became.”
For 27 years, he believed she would return to life. Then one day she did.
On an ordinary day in 1991, Munira Abdulla went to her four-year-old son’s school to bring him home. Her life, and that of her son Omar
Webair , would never be the same.
Webair, now a grown man, told The National their miraculous story. Ms. Abdulla and Bedair were passengers in a vehicle driven by her brother-in-law. It collided with a school bus, leaving her “with a serious brain injury,” the story said. Bedair “cradled by his mother before the impact – escaped with a bruise to the head.”
Ms Abdulla, who was 32 when the accident happened, was left in a coma. Her doctors, according to the article, believed she would “probably never open her eyes again.” However, in 2018 she “regained consciousness in a German hospital room.”
“I never gave up on her because I always had a feeling that one day she will wake up,” Webair, 32, told the newspaper.
the accident
“That day, there was no bus at the school to take me home,” Omar said in the article.
According to the article, Ms. Abdulla was sitting with her son in the back seat about 4 p.m. When she saw the “crash coming, she hugged me to protect me from the blow,” Webair said.
Bedair and his uncle waited for hours for help, the article said. Because there were no mobile phones, “we could not call an ambulance. She was left like that for hours,” he said.
Bedair visited his mother daily. He told The National that he “would walk several kilometres to see her and would sit with her for hours.” Even though she couldn’t speak, he said that “he could tell from her expressions whether or not she was in pain.”
Being with her every day made it difficult for him to keep a job, but he felt his time with her was worth it. “To me she was like gold; the more time passed by, the more valuable she became,” he told the newspaper.
“I never regretted it. I believe that, because of my support for her, God saved me from bigger troubles,” he said in the article.
After spending years in hospitals in the UAE and moving to different hospitals because of insurance difficulties, Ms. Abdulla received a a grant in April 2017 for rehabilitation for a better quality of life. The Crown Prince Court gave her family a grant for “a comprehensive multidisciplinary programme in Germany,” the newspaper said.
In Germany, “Ms Abdulla had surgery to treat weakened limb muscles.,” the article said. Doctors also “priotised physical therapy and controlling her eipilepsy.”
Ahmad Ryll, Ms Abdulla’s neurologist in Germany, told The National that “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.”
Becoming aware
In Germany, “she seemed to gain awareness of the people around her,” but the doctors disagreed, the article said. Webair told the doctors he “was expecting her to start talking again and they told me ‘you are running wild with your imagination. We are only doing rehabilitation to fix her quality of life.’”
However, in June 2018, “during Ms Abdulla’s final week in Germany, the unexpected happened.”
Webair had an argument with someone at his mother’s bedside. He told the newspaper, “There was a misunderstanding in the hospital room and she sensed I was at risk, which caused her a shock.” His mother began to stir.
Webair told the doctors his mother was making “strange sounds” and he kept asking them to examine her, but they said “everything was normal.”
Three days later the miracle happened. “I woke up to the sound of someone calling my name,” he told the paper. “It was her. She was calling my name. I was flying with joy. For years I have dreamt of this moment, and my name was the first word she said.”
Ms Abdulla also “called her siblings’ names and everybody who she expected to be around her,” Bedair said. “When she was screaming, it was like she was reliving the accident and then woke up.”
sharing her story
Bedair told The National he shared his mother’s story “to tell people not to lose hope on their loved ones. Don’t consider them dead when they are in such a state.” Instead, he said, when the doctors told him she was a hopeless case, he “put himself in her place and did whatever I could to improve her condition.”
He believed she would return to life, and she did. See photos of this miraculous story here.
