Finally, the neighbors paid for a visit from a doctor, who, unable to wake the sleeping girl, determined that she was in a coma. This doctor continued to visit her for a year, after which he wrote to the editor of Scandinavia's leading medical journal, soliciting the help of other professionals in finding a cure for Olsson's continuous sleep-state.[4] Olsson was visited by doctors who noted that her hair, fingernails and toenails did not seem to grow. The family reported that Olsson occasionally sat up and "mumble[d] prayers she had learned by rote in childhood".[4]