Local News in Brief : 2-Month Coma Ends

Despite doctors’ fears that a 47-year-old Long Beach woman would not survive massive head and chest injuries, she emerged from a two-month coma by speaking her husband’s name and nodding to her doctor.

Yung Hsu was struck by a truck June 2 when she and her husband, Bill, crossed a street.

“I prayed for a miracle and it is true now. It came true,” said Hsu, 47, who immigrated from Taiwan 24 years ago.

Yung Hsu surprised her doctor by raising two fingers and nodding her head to show she understood him.

Bill Hsu looked into his wife’s eyes and saw recognition.

“I said, ‘If you hear me, nod your head,’ ” he said.

Yung Hsu, a patient at Memorial Medical Center, nodded again.

But what moved her husband most was when his wife spoke his name the next day.

“I called her name, and she called me back,” Bill Hsu said. “That is the moment I was really happy.”

Doctors said she has a chance for a full recovery, her husband Hsu.

The driver of the truck, Brett Damon Hayes, 24, is scheduled to be arraigned on drunk driving charges Aug. 18 in Orange County Municipal Court.