Bob Seger performs in New York City on June 14, 2012
There are music fans, and then there are Bob Seger fans. Evie Branan had been in a coma for five years and when she emerged, the first words out of her mouth were, “I want to go to a Bob Seger concert.”
“Why would I say that?” Branan laughed later when recounting the story to her hometown paper, the Flint Journal, in Michigan. “Maybe my last thoughts were Bob Seger before I had my stroke.” While Branan may have been unsure about why she wanted to see Bob Seger in concert so badly, she was certainly a fan of the “Night Moves” singer. Branan had seen five Seger concerts before her coma, which she fell into after suffering a massive stroke in 2007. She was in a care center for years, unable to speak, until she regained consciousness in May 2011 and announced her desire to see a Seger show. Last Thursday, the 79-year-old woman got the chance to see Seger in concert again.
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Branan attended Seger’s concert at the Palace of Auburn Hills in Michigan and, according to the Flint Journal, she was afforded the full rock-star treatment, including an invitation to the after-party and the opportunity to meet Seger himself. At the concert, Branan also met Seger’s band, his family and was even greeted by complete strangers at the concert who’d heard her incredible story, Mlive.com reports. “I loved it,” Branan told Mlive.com. “It was fantastic.”
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