You might recall the story of Ellen Sadler, the English girl who became famous for sleeping nine years straight. That was nothing compared to Sweden’s Karolina Olsson, who went to bed and woke up 32 years later! Olsson didn’t attend school until she was 14 years old, and within a month of beginning classes, she went to bed complaining of a tooth ache. That was in 1876. She stayed there, sleeping, for years without a medical consultation because her family couldn’t afford to hire a doctor. The neighbors paid for a doctor visit in 1892, and soon medical specialists were coming to see her. Olsson was hospitalized for a month, but was discharged after she didn’t respond to treatment.
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Strangely, Olsson’s appearance didn’t change the way you would expect in a coma patient. Her mother tended to her needs, allegedly force-feeding her two glasses of milk every day for sustenance. Then in 1908, Olsson woke up, and seemed to have no lingering effects of her 32-year sleep, aside from being a 14-year-old in a 46-year-old woman’s body. There is one telling fact, though. Olssen’s mother died in 1905, and her daily care then fell to her father and the housekeeper. That’s when she started losing weight, and was quite emaciated when she came to, echoing the experience of Ellen Sadler. Read the tale of Karolina Olsson at Amusing Planet.
(Image credit: Dagens Nyheter)
Source: neatorama