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Reborn (Zolpidem - "Ambien" - brings people out of Persistent Vegetative State")
The Guardian (UK) ^
| September 12, 2006
| Steve Boggan
Posted on 09/13/2006 11:34:27 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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"Nel prescribed Stilnox, the brand name in South Africa for zolpidem [In USA, Ambien.] "I crushed it up and gave it to him in a bottle with a soft drink," Sienie recalls. "He couldn't swallow properly then, but I helped him and sat at his bedside. After about 25 minutes, I heard him making a sound like 'mmm'. He hadn't made a sound for five years.
"Then he turned his head in my direction. I said, 'Louis, can you hear me?' And he said, 'Yes.' I said, 'Say hello, Louis', and he said, 'Hello, mummy.' I couldn't believe it. I just cried and cried."
Hughes was called over and other staff members gathered in disbelief. "Sienie told me he was talking and I said he couldn't be - it wasn't possible," she recalls. "Then I heard him."
To: Mrs. Don-o
Maybe we should put it into the drinking water... wake a few folks up.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:35:47 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Mrs. Don-o
This is such an amazing article, was posted before but worthy of repost. Hope this discussion doesn't get derailed like last one.
To: Mrs. Don-o
Unlike Patches Kennedy,who is still brain dead
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:37:11 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
To: Mrs. Don-o
Unlike Patches Kennedy,who is still brain dead
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:37:22 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
To: Mrs. Don-o
A true Miracle drug...........
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:37:36 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: GQuagmire
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:37:44 AM PDT
by
GQuagmire
To: Mrs. Don-o
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:39:20 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Q:Why does President Bush support amnesty for illegal aliens? A:Read this: http://tinyurl.com/nyvno)
To: wagglebee; little jeremiah; neverdem; 8mmMauser; cpforlife.org; Coleus; Mr. Silverback; cgk
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:39:59 AM PDT
by
Mrs. Don-o
(Mammalia Primatia Hominidae Homo sapiens. Still working on the "sapiens" part.)
To: Mount Athos
If it does we can send both side to the old thread. : )
I am planning on e mailing this article to our Dr. who is the Prof. in this Dept. and see if he thinks it can help our needs.
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:41:44 AM PDT
by
Global2010
(My Pumpkin Honey Smoked Salmon is yummy. Pray the Rosary)
To: Mrs. Don-o
Too late for Terri Schiavo courtesy of the murdering Mickey Schiavo.
To: Mrs. Don-o
To: Mrs. Don-o
This is truly a remarkable finding - the implications are HUGE. If the reports are true, it's possible that this medication is having the same effect on stroke and hypoxia victims, some years later.
This would indeed be a miracle worthy of praising God!
To: Mrs. Don-o
I wouldn't be surprised if this couldn't be a treatment for coma, strokes--this hypnotic can do some wonderful things with insomiacs, but can have some very strange side effects.
Anyway--high hopes, and ka-ching!! (I've got some money on pharms).
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posted on
09/13/2006 11:58:57 AM PDT
by
Mamzelle
To: Mrs. Don-o
I took an Ambien once so I could experience a vegetative state!
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posted on
09/13/2006 12:00:11 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: Mrs. Don-o
We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as painless as possible. I'm just curious how exactly does forced starvation and dehydration fits into this?
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09/13/2006 12:02:35 PM PDT
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
"...No one yet knows exactly how a sleeping pill could wake up the seemingly dead brain cells, but Nel and Clauss have a hypothesis. ... during [PVS] the receptors are in some way changed or deformed so that they respond to zolpidem differently from normal receptors, ... it makes dormant areas of the brain function again and some comatose patients wake up."
I always thought that giving a hit of speed to someone in a coma from OD'ing on sleeping pills would have the same effect.
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09/13/2006 12:07:01 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
("For seven million extra, we could have avoided a billion dollar WOT.")
To: Mrs. Don-o
The discovery of zolpidem's miraculous awakenings happened in 1999? I'm sorry, but I'm resentful that nobody thought to contact Terri Schindler Schiavo's parents or doctors. One of the most famous "PVS" patients in the world, over whose life a legal battle was fought and lost. While the news about zolpidem is incredible and amazing, I am very disheartened that nobody tried this on Terri (at least, to my knowledge).
To: Mrs. Don-o; 2ndMostConservativeBrdMember; afraidfortherepublic; Alas; al_c; american colleen; ...
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posted on
09/13/2006 1:32:20 PM PDT
by
Coleus
(Roe v. Wade and Endangered Species Act both passed in 1973, Murder Babies/save trees, geese, algae)
To: Mrs. Don-o
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09/14/2006 5:05:06 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam Tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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