This is the longest I can find, 19 years, there may be longer but there doesn't seem to be many records kept on people surviving comas any longer than 5 weeks. Even The Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry are appealing for information on such cases

In real life railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988. The Polish man has woken up from a coma after 19 years to find the Communist party no longer in power and food no longer rationed.

When Grzebski had his accident Poland was still ruled by its last communist leader, Wojciech Jaruzelski.

“When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere,” Mr Grzebski said. “Now I see people on the streets with mobile phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin,” he told Polish television.

He credits his survival to his wife, Gertruda. Doctors gave him only two or three years to live after the accident. Mrs Grzebski is reported to have moved her husband every hour to prevent bed sores.

“It was Gertruda that saved me, and I’ll never forget it,” he said

“I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot,” Mrs Grzebski said on Polsat television. “Those who came to see us kept asking: ‘When is he going to die?’ But he’s not dead.”
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