(People) – It’s a miracle — and it all started with a joke. As Jennifer Flewellen, of Niles, Michigan, lay motionless in a hospital bed last year, stuck in a nearly five-year coma caused by a car crash, her mother Peggy Means told her a joke. Then the impossible happened: Flewellen, 41, laughed.
“When she woke up, it scared me at first because she was laughing and she had never done that,” Means tells PEOPLE. “Every dream came true.
Today’s the day I said, ‘That door that was closed, that kept us apart, had just opened. We were back.'” CONTINUE