Atlanta – Coretta Scott King’s daughters beamed as they left a hospital Thursday and announced that more than five weeks after suffering a stroke and mild heart attack, their mother was coming home.
The 78-year-old widow of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. had been unable to speak and was paralyzed on her right side when she was hospitalized Aug. 16.
Since then, she has made significant progress, said her daughters, Bernice and Yolanda King, and her physician, Dr. Maggie Mermin.
Mermin said King was making progress every day and her determination and attitude helped her recovery. She has been participating in three hours of therapy a day and will be expected to continue therapy six days a week at home. She is expected to make a full recovery, her daughters said.
She said King had also regained some of her speech and was regaining use of her right side, her doctor said.
“When she smiles, she looks like herself,” the doctor said.
The Kings were married in 1953 and had four children.
