Rom Houben was trapped in a coma for 23 years and had no way of letting anyone know he could hear what they were saying (pictured posed by model)
Posted on 11/22/2009 5:51:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance
A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.
Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.
He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.
Rom Houben was trapped in a coma for 23 years and had no way of letting anyone know he could hear what they were saying (pictured posed by model)
'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
“But this poor guy, was [maintaining his life] worth it under his circumstances?”
The person to ask is him. I hope someone asks him that very question.
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I am glad you got to say your farewell’s...I am sure she heard you and it made her feel very loved....:O)
Woof - I live in Ak and thought getting a confirmed HL9 was a biggie - that and working Jim Smith (VK9NS Norwalk IS) on 10M SSB!
Jim is a SK as of April, so will no longer be able to delight the newer DX hounds.... a shame, one of the last of the real gentlemen of the old school
We are losing a lot of the old school guys, which is really too bad. I think of us as newbies, but we're pushing 60 these days . . . .
You must have been a light for his soul!
Kind of makes you wonder how anyone could advocate starving and dehydrating someone like that to death, doesn’t it? How does someone make the leap from caring for someone to killing them? That takes a special kind of evil.
Thanks Avoiding_Sulla.
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Hello LAWSUIT! He probably heard them talking about pulling the plug on him! Or having sex with his wife or girl friend.
John Larroquette?
That’s one House I missed. I did learn about locked-in syndrome some years ago, and it still gives me the creeps.
NEver read the book, but the movie’s the scariest I’ve ever seen, for just the reasons described.
Wow.
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