Posted on 06/04/2007 9:47:33 PM PDT by monomaniac
Warsaw, Poland (LifeNews.com) -- A Polish man who doctors said would survive only two to three years after an automobile accident in 1988 has awaken from a 19 year coma.
Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, a 65 year-old former railway worker entered the coma during a time of Communist rule in his native country and woke to find it a democracy and to see lots of other changes. "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 said.
He 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. His physician, Dr. Boguslaw Poniatowsk, acknowledged the man's wife's actions as well. "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," he said. 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.
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