Pole wakes from 19-year coma in democratic country

Yahoo News ^ | June 2, 2007

[Clintonfatigued]

A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.

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Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.

"For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."

Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.

[Clintonfatigued]

This is an inspiring article from Poland. No doubt all Freepers wish this man only the best.

[UKrepublican]

Very interesting story and a good reason why people should think twice before ‘pulling the plug’.

Never give up on life.

[Kurt_Hectic]

I agree! Never give up on life, AND
never give up on freedom and capitalism!

Those two concepts will survive, even faced with the worst odds.

[SittinYonder]

Thank you Reagan, Pope John Paul and Margaret Thatcher.

[Nihil Obstat]

Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital. He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.

great story - thanks for posting

[Clintonfatigued]

You’re very welcome.

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This is an INCREDIBLE story!

[trisham]

Amazing. We must never give up on life. How interesting that this story and Kevorkian’s release from jail have come at about the same time.

[Chi-townChief]

This is pretty slick!

[johnthebaptistmoore]

This is just like the movie “Goodbye Lenin” where a woman wakes from a coma in a now unified and democratic Germany instead of what was originally just East Germany under communist rule.

[gotribe]

Reagan’s fault.

[EternalVigilance]

Life and Liberty BUMP!

[drubyfive]

Goodbye Lenin is a very funny movie—worth renting.

[Zack Nguyen]

God bless this man.

[socialismisinsidious]

Now if the left would just "wake up" and face the realities of Socialism/Communism ("When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere,")

Never mind, I'm sure the Elite Loony Left will be able to do Socialism "right" and "fair" and we will have Marx's utopia./s

[LibWhacker]

Wow, I’d gladly let someone club me over the head and put me in a 20-year coma if, when I woke up, all the liberals would be gone.

[socialismisinsidious]

The last line in the article is the most important one:

"He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him."

Begs the question: Would he have felt hunger, thirst?

[raybbr]

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