Are you a nurse? Have you taken care of people like Terri, who are brain damaged but aware, awake, and alive? I have.
Your idea of talking is clearly different from mine. Your idea of communication is VASTLY different from mine.
You are mistaken.
No, I am NOT a nurse, but I am the wife of a doctor.
You're wrong.
Terri, sadly, cannot communicate.
Same here--worked six years in neuro ICU/stepdown. As I've said a couple of times in the past few days--have taken care of way too many hopeless neuro cases who, after extensive therapy, actually walked back into our unit to thank us.
Of course, our reflex response was always, "Oh my God!"