Man wakes from 19 year coma

[Quixote1818]

Man Wakes From 19-Year Coma in Poland
AP
WARSAW, Poland (June 3) - A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than it was under communism, his wife said Sunday.

Gertruda Grzebska, 63, said that for years she fed her husband Jan carefully with a spoon and moved his body to prevent bed sores.

"For 19 years he did not move or say anything," Grzebska told The Associated Press by phone. "He tried to say things but it couldn't be understood. Sometimes we pretended we understood."

"Now he spends his days sitting in a wheelchair and last weekend we took him out for a walk in his wheelchair," she said.

"He was so amazed to see the colorful streets, the goods," she said. "He says the world is prettier now" than it was 19 years ago, when Poland was still under communist rule.

Link:

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[rockymountaindem]

1. It's like "Goodbye Lenin" redux n/t

[LiberalEsto]

2. I sometimes wonder

whether it would be possible to curl into a ball and hibernate until the current regime in Washington is over. Sigh.

[liberal renegade]

8. Ala "Rip Van Winkle"

[Rydz777]

3. This man was very fortunate in the woman who married him. nt

[FrenchieCat]

4. ooh shit! He's in for a

Rude Awakening as to what's been happening since last he checked! (pardon any puns!)

[GrumpyGreg]

5. This is more fuel for the right to life crowd.

[Quixote1818]

7. Big difference between him and Terri Schiavo though

His brain was in great shape. Her brain had liquefied.

[soothsayer]

9. i've never believed that liquified line. it was literally liquid? i dunno.

[Clark2008]

10. Most of it was, yes.

Here's a comparison:



The sparsely detailed dark areas in Terri’s CT scan (both the large dark area in the center and the smaller dark areas around the edges) are where Terri’s brain has been replaced with brain fluid.

[GrumpyGreg]

6. Dup----sorry!