MAN WAKES UP FROM COMA, ASKS FOR TACO BELL

Jake Booth is an Army veteran and a former sheriff’s deputy from Collier County, Florida. Booth fell into a coma in February, when he came down with bronchitis. At the tail end of his antibiotic regimen, the 35-year-old neglected to finish the dose, sending him to the hospital with pneumonia. While admitted, he had a heart attack and then fell into a coma. After 48 days in the coma, with family and medical staff unsure if he’d ever wake up or suffer from permanent brain damage, Booth woke up, and although he struggled to speak, when he finally did, the first thing he said was, “I want Taco Bell.” It would take 22 days more for the father of two to eat any solid food, much less Taco Bell, but with a lot of therapy and medical treatment, Booth got his wish and got to chow down on eight Taco Bell tacos.
* “I want Taco Bell.” Brain damage can be such a horrible thing.
* I would have expected something like “What’s been happening on ‘Game of Thrones’?”
* With this publicity, I hope Taco Bell at least picks up part of the hospital tab.
* He fell into a coma after he got bronchitis? Wow, and I thought my doctor was bad.
* Bronchitis, pneumonia, heart attack, coma. Is there anything he DIDN’T get?
* How about rounding it out with a nice dose of hepatitis?
* Eight Taco Bell tacos? Reminds me of the munchies in college.
* Of course, back in college, we only simulated being in a coma.
* Eight Taco Bell tacos. He’s going to be making a run for the restroom.
* If he keeps this up he’s going to be back in the hospital for stomach surgery.