"A bloody good rollicking"

After being told that her newborn son had died during a traumatic birth, the mother suffering from blood poisoning, fell into a coma.  Yvonne Sullivan was only 28 when she was taken to intensive care where her husband kept vigil for two weeks.

Two weeks in a coma is just about how long you've got with the U.K.'s national health insurance.
The doctors told the husband they might have to switch off the life support machines.

That's when Dominic started berating his wife,

When the doctors told me to think about turning off the life support I got angry," he added. "I grabbed her hand and began shouting at her. I gave her a bloody good rollicking.

You start fighting, don't you dare give up on me now. I've had enough, stop mucking around and start breathing. Come back to me."

"I'd already had to explain to Ryan that his brother Clinton had died, and that his mummy might not survive.

"He said he'd be cross with the doctors if they let mummy go to heaven. I kept telling her to pull through. Then I left the room to get some air." 

Two hours later she started breathing on her own, five days later she recovered consciousness.

"I can't remember exactly what he said but I never liked getting told off by Dom," she recalled.

"Something inside me just clicked and I began to fight again.

"I had been on 100 per cent life support and I was deteriorating, but within two hours of him ordering me to get better I'd regained 5 per cent of my breathing.

"When I first came round I'd thought he'd been gone a few minutes, then he told me I'd been out for two weeks. It's a miracle really. I owe him so much."

Coma woman woken by husband's 'rollicking' as doctors were about to switch off life-support machine.