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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.
TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: awakenings; coma; communism; giannajessen; poland; sanctityoflife; terrischiavo; terrischivo
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To: BJClinton
Uncyclopedia changes You!
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:39:22 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: BJClinton
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posted on
06/02/2007 11:41:41 AM PDT
by
kinoxi
To: guinnessman
“Heres 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?
To: kinoxi
According to the Swede that was in the group, the same amount as it takes the Norwegians.
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”.
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.
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posted on
06/02/2007 1:48:08 PM PDT
by
uptoolate
(If it sounds absurd, 51% chance it was sarcasm.)
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.
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posted on
06/02/2007 1:54:24 PM PDT
by
drlevy88
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!)
To: domenad; marthemaria
Michael Jackson is a white, arabic woman? Now I KNOW you’re pulling my leg!
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posted on
06/02/2007 4:19:43 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
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!
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posted on
06/02/2007 4:23:31 PM PDT
by
Grizzled Bear
("Does not play well with others.")
To: marthemaria; TheSarce
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posted on
06/03/2007 2:32:34 AM PDT
by
8mmMauser
(Jezu ufam tobie...Jesus I trust in Thee)
To: SmoothTalker
Heres 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.
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posted on
06/03/2007 2:41:40 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
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")
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.
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posted on
06/03/2007 9:52:34 AM PDT
by
Lukasz
Comment #55 Removed by Moderator
To: vox_PL
Wonderful story, wonderful!
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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))
To: marthemaria
I wish I could have slept through the eight years of Clinton...
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posted on
06/03/2007 4:03:57 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Fred, are you in or out?)
To: reg45
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posted on
06/03/2007 4:04:52 PM PDT
by
reg45
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.
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posted on
06/03/2007 4:06:53 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Fred, are you in or out?)
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.
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posted on
06/03/2007 4:24:53 PM PDT
by
Tall_Texan
(Fred, are you in or out?)
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