What started as a case of the flu ended with a mom in a coma for months.

"Oh my goodness. It's been a long year. It really has," Crystal Delong said. "My boyfriend told me that I was unresponsive in the bed, and that's when the hospital was notified. I went there and I have absolutely no memory past being on the phone." Advertisement

Crystal ended up in Lowell General Hospital's emergency room, diagnosed with staph pneumonia.

Her sister in Illinois and her son in Texas got the call no family wants: Crystal's lungs were failing.

"If she didn't get to the hospital right then and there, miraculously she would've died," said Crystal's son, Trey Delong.

Doctors in Lowell, Massachusetts, knew she was running out of time. She needed to get to Boston. Doctors at Tufts Medical Center were abl

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