Posted on 02/05/2010 9:00:38 AM PST by Niuhuru
As scientists have the first 'conversation' with a patient in a vegetative state, one man's awe-inspiring story'One cannot even begin to imagine the despair, frustration and fear that was Martin Pistorius's life for more than a decade. After contracting meningitis at the age of 12, he found himself locked inside his body and spent 14 years with no form of communication and completely unable to control his body. His parents were told that their only option was to allow him to die and that he had the brain function of a three-month-old baby. That, however, was not the case. While the illness had wreaked havoc on Martin's body, his mind remained largely intact. Day after day he lay motionless on a bed, or strapped to a chair, all the while desperate to communicate but unable to do so.
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“Stand up Martin! Let ‘em see you!”
——Gaffemaster B-—
I can’t even begin to comprehend what people like Martin have to endure with friends, family and doctors convinced they are not aware of anything.
I think I would go stark raving mad.
“Martin’s story is both heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure,”
Amazing individual! Wonderful, heartening story!
Sounds like me and the next 3 years if Obama is not impeached.
Good thing Martin wasn’t married to Michael Schiavo.
The absolute horror.
I think it was one where the guy immobilized was a pretty bad dude (crook/murderer) and he was about to be dissected in an autopsy. Just before he was about to be cut up, he managed to shed a tear, which stopped the procedure. I can’t remember how it ended up, but I think he ended up in the hands of the people or person he had offended against, and they were about to “have some fun” with him when the segment ended. Really weird...
Terri was murdered by the State.
That’s an amazing story...I can’t imagine how he managed to preserve his sanity! God bless him and his wife and his family!!
You would certainly know who your real friends are.
I remembered that as soon as I read what you wrote. So I had to go find it!
http://www.hitchcockwiki.com/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents_-_Breakdown
Now I’ll have to watch it!
How dare he deny the advice of the death panel sages and take up useful resources designated for the more able bodied of society. Terri Schiavo obeyed her statist masters but this rebel enjoys life an an enemy of the all wise state!
Reminds me of the film “Diving Bell and the Butterfly”. Hell on earth.
Hitchcock Presents: “Breakdown”
Joseph Cotten as a bad man lacking empathy who is paralyzed in a car accident, encounters a number of other unsympathetic characters who think he is dead and rob him of nearly everything, and then is about to be disposed of as dead until he sheds a single tear, which brings about his rescue.
that was a bad remake done in the late 70’s. The original Hitcock version had the bad guy as an employer who fires a guy with a family who cries while begging to keep his job. The employer belittles the guy for crying. He, the bad guy, later gets in a car wreck, is paralyzed except that he can move one finger. He is presumed to be dead and is placed on the autopsy table with his moveable finger under his leg. Tension mounts as they begin to cut him open when he starts to cry. Great drama. Hitchcock was a master at irony.
Sorry. You scooped me.
He is so fortunate to have a wife that stood firm against all of it.
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