Posted on 02/11/2005 6:16:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
A US woman who has spent the past 20 years in a coma-like state has inexplicably awoken and can now speak, news reports said.
Sarah Scantlin was 18 years old when, as a pedestrian, she was injured in a hit-and-run accident that left her in a semi-vegetative condition, aware of her surroundings but unable to speak or move.
Since that time, she has been in a care centre in the Midwest US state of Kansas.
Scantlin's parents unexpectedly received a phone call last week from the nursing home where their now 38-year-old daughter resides.
However, instead of the call being about Sarah, it was actually from Sarah.
"Hi mum," she said to her mother.
The words were a shock and a joy for Scantlin's parents.
"There's just no words," mother Betsy Scantlin told a CBS television news show. "I've just laughed ever since because it's just so amazing."
Doctors said Sarah Scantlin has been improving every day since her remarkable awakening. They have no explanation for the sudden improvement in her condition.
Although Scantlin started making indiscernible noises a couple of years ago, she remained unresponsive except for the ability to make eye contact.
This is a wonderful thing... right in the nick of time to save Terri.
It seems to me that this sort of medical evidence will be a mitigating factor for her parents when the final judgement is made.
Thank God this woman's parents never gave up on her.
Wow.
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A friggin' quarter of a century ago! Where's my hanky?
My Terri ribbon is still on a tree in my front yard, prominently and proudly displayed!
Amazing wonderful good news for Sarah. Bless Terri and family I hope this does some good for their cause.
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I just caught a glimpse of it, Like with Terri, I was expecting her to have been completely PVS
Terri is NOT PVS
I know that. But it's a well hidden fact in the media.
"She was able to do eye contact and was very aware of her surroundings, but otherwise, physically, she was completely incapable of doing anything." Sounds alot like Terri, but then, in Floriduh, the utilitarian diagnosis would be different ... they'd have killed this lady years ago, those oh so enlightened ghouls in Floriduh courts.
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Email this story to the judicial murderers in Florida who want to murder Teri.
This is Michael Schiavo's WORST NIGHTMARE!!!!! Ha ha Mikey...could happen anyday....haha
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/11/earlyshow/main673281.shtml
CBS and many other sites are carrying the story. It's really true.
A touching story. You did a fine thing and probably continue to do many fine things.
What a fabulous story!!! What does your tagline mean??
They play a clip of the 1985 song on a commercial for radio version songs marketed to kids. I heard my 10 year old song singing with part of it substituting his own words at one point: "And I have no idea who is Madonna."
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