He is now out of the coma and intensive care, but has been unable to help police with their investigation.

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The bottom line is that there's no real point being out in public at this stage of the food coma.

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Good news emerged before the stage when it was confirmed that Rabobank's Spanish rider Pedro Horrillo Munoz had come out of an induced coma after a crash on Saturday which saw him flung off his bike and down the side of a ravine.

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Candace Emptage was in a coma for two months after being cut out of the wreckage of her car when it collided with an ambulance in September 2010.

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After a two-month coma, I slowly came out of it, putting many doctors and the general medical profession in disbelief.

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Doctors on Monday began the process of slowly lowering his dosage of anesthesia and bringing him out of a medically induced coma.

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