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Polish man wakes up to new world after 19 years in coma
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Posted on 06/02/2007 8:52:24 AM PDT by marthemaria

WARSAW (AFP) - A Pole who spent 19 years in a coma has woken up and will now have to adapt to a country where the communists are no longer in power, a television station announced Friday.

Railwayman Jan Grzebski fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988, the private channel Polsat said.

In an interview, Grzebski said that he owed his survival to his wife, Gertruda.

"She's the one who always took care of me. She saved my life," he said.

Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He is now making the acquaintance of 11 grandchildren.

Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma.

"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot. Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead," said Getruda.

Poland's communist regime was still clinging onto power when Grzebski had his accident, only losing its grip the following year, in 1989.

On the brash neon-lit streets of new European Union member Poland, the period seems a distant memory.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.


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KEYWORDS: awakenings; coma; communism; giannajessen; poland; sanctityoflife; terrischiavo; terrischivo
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To: BJClinton
Uncyclopedia changes You!
41 posted on 06/02/2007 11:39:22 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: BJClinton

:)


42 posted on 06/02/2007 11:41:41 AM PDT by kinoxi
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To: guinnessman

“Here’s a story for the Terry Schiavo ping list if I ever saw one!”

Why? Were the conditions at all similar? Were the CT scans at all alike?


43 posted on 06/02/2007 11:44:01 AM PDT by SmoothTalker
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To: kinoxi
According to the Swede that was in the group, the same amount as it takes the Norwegians.
44 posted on 06/02/2007 12:26:54 PM PDT by U S Army EOD
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To: LibKill

I was hoping that somebody else would also see the similarities between this man in real life and the woman actress in the movie “Goodbye, Lenin”.


45 posted on 06/02/2007 1:02:25 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: Snerdley
“When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere,”

Coming soon to an America near you.....if the Dems have their way.

46 posted on 06/02/2007 1:48:08 PM PDT by uptoolate (If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
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To: BJClinton

In Soviet Russia you take your burned out bulb and switch it for a good bulb in a public place like a train station.


47 posted on 06/02/2007 1:54:24 PM PDT by drlevy88
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To: marthemaria
Good for you, Jan. Welcome back.


48 posted on 06/02/2007 4:14:08 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Fred Thompson in '08, baby!)
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To: domenad; marthemaria
Michael Jackson is a white, arabic woman? Now I KNOW you’re pulling my leg!
49 posted on 06/02/2007 4:19:43 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: uptoolate
Coming soon to an America near you.....if the Dems have their way.

When Toilet Paper becomes a Luxury item you have achieved Communism!

50 posted on 06/02/2007 4:23:31 PM PDT by Grizzled Bear ("Does not play well with others.")
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To: marthemaria; TheSarce
Dziękują

Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm


51 posted on 06/03/2007 2:32:34 AM PDT by 8mmMauser (Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
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To: SmoothTalker
“Here’s a story for the Terry Schiavo ping list if I ever saw one!”

Why? Were the conditions at all similar? Were the CT scans at all alike?

No, the lawyers and judges were different.

52 posted on 06/03/2007 2:41:40 AM PDT by ovrtaxt (I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
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To: marthemaria

Wonderful story. Thanks for posting it.


53 posted on 06/03/2007 3:01:33 AM PDT by syriacus ("...had the US troops remained [in S. Korea in 1949], there would have been no [Korean] War")
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To: Swordfished; pretorian_PL; vader69; vahet pole; ken21; norton; LadyPilgrim; vox_PL; 1234; ...
Eastern European ping list


FRmail me to be added or removed from this Eastern European ping list ping list.

54 posted on 06/03/2007 9:52:34 AM PDT by Lukasz
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To: vox_PL

Wonderful story, wonderful!


56 posted on 06/03/2007 4:00:07 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul. WWPD (what would Patton do))
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To: marthemaria

I wish I could have slept through the eight years of Clinton...


57 posted on 06/03/2007 4:03:57 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Fred, are you in or out?)
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To: reg45

bump


58 posted on 06/03/2007 4:04:52 PM PDT by reg45
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To: Snerdley

Any chance we could bring this guy to America next year and let him warn Americans what communism was really like so they don’t embrace Mrs. Clinton? That would be a heck of a political stunt.


59 posted on 06/03/2007 4:06:53 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Fred, are you in or out?)
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To: U S Army EOD
Norwegian

I remember a Neal Boortz skit one time about the "N-word" and he began reading explicit rap lyrics, substituting "Norwegian" every time the N-word was used. Funny stuff.

60 posted on 06/03/2007 4:24:53 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Fred, are you in or out?)
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