Sorry, I will attempt to NEVER mention Terri on any thread again. How's that? When someone says she died in 1991, I feel entitled to respond to their ignorance. Perhaps you should do some additional reading about Mr. Herbert before showing yours. Once he went to a nursing home (about 2 1/2 yrs. after his accident) his doctors considered him "near" PVS. He was not semi-lucid except for the brief time after he awakened from the coma and according to what I have read, that is when ALL the photos we've seen were taken. He was transferred to the nursing home because his condition continued downhill until his present MD, Ahmed, thought he was PVS, "near" PVS, close to PVS, etc. because he sat and drooled all day in front of a TV he could not see and responded to nothing. In addition, I did NOT say "this little girl is also not in a constant vegetative state;" you did. I did not say ANYTHING at all about the little girl. I replied to someone else who never mentioned the little girl.
Thank you for your meaningless remarks and I will certainly endeavor to follow all the new rules that you are making for posters on FR. Now that you make the rules for posting here, perhaps you would care to post them somewhere so we can all be certain to follow them.
"He has had several infrequent moments of lucidity, which has given us much hope for further recovery," Linda Herbert said at a news conference at Erie County Medical Center.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/firefighter_recovery
OK, I admit that the information that I had on Mr. Herbert was a little off, I thought that his semi-lucidity that was mentioned in the story was before (and still think that I saw somewhere that it was) his recovery. Still, his condition was different than Terri's as his cerebral cortex had not been replaced by spinal fluid.
The posting about the little girl was not meant to be to you personally, but to all those who have posted about the little girl and anyones wishes to do her any harm. Bad posting etiquette.