For almost an hour, Michael Phan lies quietly in his hospital bed. Then, with the speed of a camera shutter, his eyelids snap open and his mouth cracks into a gaping yawn so wide it leaves his jaw trembling like a tenor reaching for high C.
He moans and then gags slightly, his fingers tightening on a pair of white washcloths clenched in useless fists.Coma victim Michael Phan with wife Phuong Lee and her brother, Arthur Le, in New Westminster's Royal Columbian Hospital. Phan was involved in a tragedy at a Langley mushroom farm. The sudden movement prompts Phan's wife, Phuong Le, to draw closer to her husband, bending her slight frame so that her own pale cheek brushes against his. She strokes his forehead and whispers into his ear.
