Posted on 05/03/2005 11:39:18 AM PDT by Alex Marko
ORCHARD PARK, N.Y. - Nearly 9½ years after a firefighter was left brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did something that shocked his family and doctors: He asked for his wife. advertisement Staff members of the nursing home where Donald Herbert has lived for more than seven years raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. It was the first of many conversations the patient had with his wife, four sons and other family and friends Saturday during a 14-hour stretch, Herbert’s uncle Simon Manka said. “How long have I been away?” Herbert asked. “We told him almost 10 years,” the uncle said. “He thought it was only three months.”
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Oh, I thought it was a Howard Dean thread. :P
"Perked up"? I would say he did more than just perk up.
Good thing he doesn't live in Florida; they'd have declared him in a "post vegetative state" and drawn the usual PC conclusions. . .
"And I feel so refreshed..."
I saw the headline and thought it was referring to Howard Dean.
Shades of "Buddy" (played by John Belushi) on SNL:
"Hi Mom and Dad, I'm not in a coma anymore."
"What are you doing? Were you pulling the plug on me?"
Teri did this.
NYT Columnist Bob Herbert still shows no sign of brain function, however.
How did Judge Grier allow this to slip by his radar?
I wouldn't be surprised if other people in similar situations start waking up. Teri Shiave probably told them that they are going to pull the plug on you if you don't go back.
Damn straight. Freakin' old people and invalids are a drag on society and a waste of money. We could better use that money on welfare and funding illegal alien health and education programs.
I hope judge greer reads this. I hope he reads it and spends the rest of his life thinking about how he used his office of the court to murder Terri.
there was actually an incredible story on CBC
I missed the first part, a man was in a coma apparently after suffering hypothermia and a heart attack in an accident which put him in a big crashing wave in the ocean somehow
the doctors were bleak and the family were agonizing over what to do, whether it was time to pull the plug and they asked the two nurses who looked after him, the one nurse said don't pull the plug, please wait, I have a hunch about your husband........
sure enough two days later the husband emerges from the coma with brain apparently quite intact
they then discover they had misdiagnosed him that he had suffered a broken spine not a heart attack
but the irony is that the misdiagnosis saved his life, the procedure they took to treat the hypothermia AND the heart attack minimized the damage to his spine and his brain
so now they are applying the same techniques on spinal cord injuries, keep the body temperature cool, raising it slowly and have found that it indeed minimizes the damage to the spinal cord
four months after coming out of his coma, this man is walking the dog.......
That is a happy ending that should have a movie of the week IMO.
I love happy endings.
Greer is much too busy counting his $ and accepting awards from his fellow vultures...I mean lawyers...to contemplate this item, let alone compare it to his act of "judicial homicide."
You mean, his family didn't starve him to death so that he could experience the "euphoria"?
You mean, his family didn't starve him to death so that he could experience the "euphoria"?
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