Man Wants Pepsi After 19-Year Coma

Charlotte Observer ^ | 07/10/03 | DAVID HAMMER

[mikeb704]

There are those who would have pulled the plug on this man many years ago. And called it death with dignity.

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[William McKinley]

Bet he doesn't even know about New Coke.

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[ewing]

How about the George Foreman grill! Now that will be suprising..

[krb]

"He wouldn't drive a Chevrolet and when the commercials would come on the TV he'd have a fit. He'd shake his head from one side to the other and give some kind of hollering,"

Damn!

[cincinnati65]

"Man Wants Pepsi After 19-Year Coma"

"Wallis was left a quadriplegic and fell into a coma for three months. He soon emerged partially from the coma. But for 18 years, he could communicate only by blinking his eyes or grunting."

Is it just me, or does it sound like this guy was in a three month coma and not a 19-year coma?

[A2J]

Man Wants Pepsi After 19-Year Coma

Me sees a new Pepsi commercial in the near future.

[Hildy]

Good for Pepsi...Chevrolet ain't so happy! What a great story. Wait until the vultures (media) all start asking him stupid questions.

[wideawake]

I wonder if his refusal to acknowledge he had an accident is volitional rather than a cognitive problem - he seems to have really cared a great deal about cars and driving: it might be hard for him to accept that a car accident robbed him of 19 years of his life.

[Daus]

"This coma story brought to you by the people at Pepsi and Ford."

[DB]

Exactly.

He wasn't in a coma for 19 years.

[cincinnati65]

I mean would have been any less compelling a headline if it read: Man's first words after 19 years..."Mom" and "Pepsi"

At least it would have been factually correct.

[DB]

There was another article on this where he asked the nurse to "make love to him"...

No mention of that either it seems...

[JudyB1938]

When I was coming out of anesthesia with my first child 47 years ago, my mother told me I had a little girl. She said I replied: "I don't want no baby. I want a pepsi." That stuff's addicting, I tell you. :0)

[krb]

LOL...

BTW, what sort of "analog" man are you?

[bedolido]

When I was coming out of anesthesia with my first child 47 years ago, my mother told me I had a little girl. She said I replied: "I don't want no baby. I want a pepsi." That stuff's addicting, I tell you. :0)

When I lived in Atlanta, GA. I visited the Coke company (Atlanta is the home of Coke) and was surprised to find, in Coke's early days, cocaine was an active ingredient.

So I understand the addition possibilities

[Slyfox]

Back in 1982, in a diner in Little Rock, I happened to overhear a conversation between a group of men sitting in the next booth. This is an example of the sentiment of some of the people in Arkansas around the time Terry Wallis last remembered stuff before his accident. It went like this:

Did you hear that Bill Clinton wants to run for president?

Shoot dog! How the hell is he going to be able to do that?

Yeah, how is he gonna get to be president, with all his lying and womanizing, and all?

I don't know, but that's what they say he wants to do.

Can you imagine him as president?

Poor Terry. It might be better not to tell him that Bill Clinton actually served two terms as president. He just might relapse back into his previous comatose state.