Some Good News -- No, Really!

OrnotBitwise

OrnotBitwise

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I'm not much fond of "human interest" feel-good stories but I thought everyone might enjoy this one. And I do mean everyone for once: the righties will love it and even we lefties will get a warm fuzzy feeling.

:cof1:

Statistically speaking, this man's good fortune qualifies as miraculous. Make of that whatever you wish.

WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.

Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.

"For 19 years Mrs. Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr. Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."

Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.

He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/02/polish.coma.reut/index.html

Yes, Damo, I cheated. I posted the entire text of the article. Well, it was short and sweet, okay? So sue me. :p
 
A coma is not brain death. No one I'm aware of is suggesting that "pulling the plug" on comatose patients is a good idea. Waking out of a coma after six months or more is extremely rare, but it does happen.

Anyone who supports such a thing is probably a death penalty supporter. ;)

Can you imagine the shock this guy must've had? He probably feels like he's on another planet.
 
Say what...?

OrnotBitwise said:
A coma is not brain death. No one I'm aware of is suggesting that "pulling the plug" on comatose patients is a good idea. Waking out of a coma after six months or more is extremely rare, but it does happen.

Anyone who supports such a thing is probably a death penalty supporter. ;)

Can you imagine the shock this guy must've had? He probably feels like he's on another planet.
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I am a 'Death Penalty' supporter...but this is 'apples and oranges' however I would support pulling the plug on a comatose career criminal who crossed the line and committed heinious crimes like say 'Charlie Manson' et al
 
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