Working together, family sees some progress toward Tom Driscoll’s emergence from coma

GREENFORD — Small miracles keep Tom Driscoll Jr.’s family hopeful that he will emerge from a coma.

Until then, his wife and children work together, caring for him at home.

“I still want him back,” said Mary Therese Driscoll, 47, his wife of 26 years. “We all want him back.”

Tom, 52, a compliance director for Fidelity Investments in Jersey City, N.J., was on his way back to New Jersey from his Greenford home the night of Jan. 25 when he was in a four-vehicle crash on Interstate 80, Hubbard.

He sustained severe brain trauma.

After leaving Select Care in Boardman, Tom went to Forum Health Hillside Rehabilitation Hospital, Warren, where he improved.

While there, though, his heart stopped, and he had to be rushed to St. Joseph Health Center and then transferred to intensive care at St. Elizabeth Health Center. From there, he went to Health South in Erie, Pa., another rehab facility, then home and to St. E’s Boardman when an infection hit.

Before the latest illness, Tom made what family members perceived as significant progress. He responded to questions, could identify tastes, followed brief conversations and even said his name.

Read more in Friday’s Vindicator and Vindy.com