HALIFAX—In what her mother calls a “Christmas miracle,” a Nova Scotia woman who suffered a catastrophic brain injury in a 1996 car accident communicated one-on-one with her mother for the first time in 21 years. Louise Misner said her 37-year-old daughter, Joellan Huntley, used eye-motion cameras and software on an iPad to respond to a comment from Misner about her clothes. Huntley has been severely disabled since she was 15, unable to walk or talk and fed through a tube. “I said ‘Joellan I like your new Christmas outfit you got on,’ ” Misner said in a telephone interview on Friday. Misner said the settlement money helped the family purchase the computer equipment she is now using with the help of a speech pathologist.

Source: thestar December 29, 2017 23:34 UTC