Jean-Pierre Adams: The three-decade coma that can't stop love

What present do you buy a man who has been in a coma for more than 30 years?

That's the question the family of former France international Jean-Pierre Adams, whose life was brutally turned upside down in 1982, asks itself every year on key anniversaries.

Thirty-six years ago the beefy footballer, then 34, walked into a Lyon hospital for some routine surgery to correct a troublesome knee.

By the time he left, he would never talk, walk or move any of his limbs again.

His wife Bernadette has tended to him ever since, barely missing a day's care over the last three decades.

Source: Edition.cnn