My Husband Was In A Coma For Six Years—Then I Noticed Something Was Changing

that room, turn on the lights, and watch his face as he decided whether to keep pretending or admit the truth. But confrontation assumed he would respond honestly, and a man who had maintained a six-year deception—who had lain motionless while doctors examined him, while I bathed him, while I wept over him—was not a man who would surrender to a conversation.continue reading …