Young Joseph Flavill, 19, spent ten months in a coma. He fell asleep on March 1, 2019. Ten months and a pandemic later, the world has changed!
Imagine waking up from a very long period of coma and discovering a completely changed world… Goodbye Lenin-style film script? However, this is exactly what happened to a young Englishman, who was plunged into a coma before the Covid-19 crisis and is waking up slowly today … Ah, should we specify that he caught the Covid during this ten-month coma?
It’s an incredible story told by the Guardian.
Young Joseph Flaville, 19, was hit by a car in the street of his hometown in Great Britain on March 1, 2019. The boy suffered a severe head trauma and was artificially asleep. Three weeks later, Joseph is still in a coma when Britain first enters full lockdown.
"If I had been told a year ago what would happen this year, I think I wouldn't have believed it."
At the beginning of February 2020, after having caught the coronavirus twice, the young man finally emerges, slowly. He responds to external stimulation when asked to move his fingers or blink his eyes. To the relief of his loved ones … who are wondering where to start to tell him what happened while he was asleep!
Her aunt tells the Guardian: "He won't know anything about the pandemic since he's been asleep for ten months. He's regaining consciousness little by little, but we don't know what he knows about him. I just don't know where to start. had said a year ago what would happen this year, I think I wouldn't have believed it. I have no idea how Joseph is going to understand everything we've been through. "
It was also complicated for the family to explain by video conference why they could not be at Joseph's bedside when he woke up. Finally, almost impossible to explain to the still fragile young boy the scale of this pandemic. Let us wish Joseph a good recovery, and welcome to this strange world!