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Terry Wallis dead at 57- Man who woke from 19-year coma in 2003 after regenerating brain cells dies in Arkansas
TERRY Wallis, the man who woke up from a 19-year coma in 2003 after regenerating brain cells, has died in Arkansas.
Wallis is known by many as “The man who slept 19 years.”
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Wallis is known by many as “The man who slept 19 years”Wallis family/Getty Images/AFP
Wallis, an Arkansas native, was involved in a near-fatal crash in 1984.
The accident occurred just six weeks after his daughter, Amber, was born.
He remained in a coma for 19 years, waking up in 2003.
During that time, his family continued to care for him extensively, an obituary states. They brought Wallis home some weekends for years.
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Doctors believe this care may have helped him and contributed to his “awakening period,” the obituary says.
It’s been reported that he was the first documented person to regenerate brain cells, the American Journal of Medicine reported in 2006.
An obituary for Wallis states he passed on March 29 in Searcy, Arkansas at the Advanced Care Hospital.
He was 57 years old.
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