Nurse tickles grandmother out of her coma

Grandmother Catherine O’Neill was read her last rites and given ‘no hope’ of surviving, but stunned doctors by coming out of a six-month coma – after a nurse tickled her feet.

Catherine O’Neill’s future was hanging in the balance until she showed signs of life when a nurse happened to tickle her feet during a wash.

And just four hours later – after doctors gave her fluids and steroids – she was awake, learning to walk again and is looking forward to Christmas with her family.