‘Mum, good’: Chinese woman wakes vegetative daughter-in-law after 17 years of care

A woman in eastern China has successfully helped her daughter-in-law, surnamed Xu, wake from a vegetative state after 17 years of continuous care. Xu had fallen into the vegetative state in 2009 following a truck accident in her village in Qing.

The mother-in-law's decades-long dedication to caring for the younger woman has moved social media users across the region, highlighting an extraordinary display of familial commitment and endurance over nearly two decades.