Goodnight ‘Snow White’: Longest coma patient passes away after 42 years.

The world’s longest coma patient, a Miami woman who had been called the ‘Sleeping Snow White’ during the 42 years she remained comatose, has died at the age of 59.Edwarda O’Bara was a cheery high school student in 1970 when she suddenly fell ill,threw up her medicine and slipped into a diabetic coma.But before she became comatose she turned to her mother and pleaded with her to ‘promise …you won’t leave me.’Her mother stayed true to her word, enduring a grueling schedule to constantly stay near her daughter until the mother died five years ago and the woman’s sister became her primary care giver – until Edwarda passed away on Wednesday. Colleen cared for her sister full time after their mother passed away in 2008 As a popular 16-year-old, Edwarda had a bright future ahead of her but then she became ill with a severe bout of pneumonia. In the early hours of January 3 in 1970, she‘ woke up shaking and in great pain because the oral form of insulin she had been taking wasn’t reaching her blood stream,’ according to her family.She was rushed to hospital and as she lay in her bed, she turned to her mother, KayeO’Bara, and pleaded with her to stay near.‘Promise me you won’t leave me,’ the teen begged her mother, according to the Miami Herald.Terrified, O’Bara assured daughter, ‘Of course not. I would never leave you, darling,’ having no idea of the long ordeal ahead.The mother kept that promise, taking care ofher daughter, until Kaye O’Bara herself died five years ago.Tragic: Edward a (pictured as a 14-year-old girl)suddenly fell ill in 1970 and has been in a coma ever since For more than 35 years, Kaye O’Bara remained constantly by Edwarda’s bedside, enduring a grueling schedule to give her daughter around the clock care.She would only sleep for 90 minutes at a time,so she would always be accessible to her daughter.The devoted mother would not institutionalize Edwarda, even though the financial burden became a great challenge to the family.

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Source: (Ynaija)