From coma to cook, teen gymnast on the mend

Teenager Wang Yan is walking, talking and text messaging her friends less than two years after suffering a nightmarish accident on the uneven bars that put her in a coma and was expected to leave her permanently paralyzed.

Wang, 17, no longer requires help with her day-to-day life after experiencing a miraculous recovery from surgery that saw her on crutches two months after her horrific tumble in the summer of 2007.

She said she is literally taking her rehabilitation one step at a time. "I am still walking very slowly and when I speed up, I lose my rhythm," she was quoted as saying by Sina.com.