Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”

lifenews.com ^ | 1/12/15 | Sarah Zagorski 1/12/15

[sarasmom]

LOL!

He didn't care then, and he certainly doesn't care now if “we” are or were upset.

He is driven by media polls, not personal principles.

If he thinks it will help get him elected, he will claim to have converted to Islam.

[9thLife]

RIP Terri Schiavo.

[9thLife]

Godspeed, sister.

[vigilante2]

Maybe there is still hope for liberals!

[usconservative]

By the way, about six years ago a young girl in our church was involved in a horrendous automobile accident. She was 16. Her injuries were so bad, that doctors informed the family that her brain stem and brain had largely separated from each other and there was no hope for her recovery. "It was just a matter of time" they said.

The family struggled for two weeks on whether or not to pull the plug on life support for her. The hospital was at the point of getting ready to get a court order to do so, claiming their limited life support resources were being wasted.

The evening before the hospital was scheduled to remove her life support, some thirty days after the accident, a nurse was in her room checking on her, standing at her bedside and holding her hand. The young girl opened her eyes and clenched the nurses hand.

The nurse asked her to clench her hand again. She did. The nurse asked again, she clenched the nurses hand again. The nurse did this three more times for a total of five getting a clenched hand response.

The nurse immediately called for the resident and Chief Neurologist and other hospital staff to the room.

The young girl's mother was down the hall in the "Family Area" getting some rest when all this was going on. She was awakened to the activity in the hall and saw her daughter beginning to wake up as she entered the room, with all the activity going on.

By the time the rest of the family made it back to the hospital nearly an hour later, the young girl was sitting up in bed with the ventilator tube still in, writing notes to her mother.

Our entire church of nearly 5,000 people (at that time) spent weeks praying for her recovery.

Do I think miracles happen? Absolutely.

That same young lady today still has residual damage from her brain injuries. She cannot open her left eye for example. She's spent years in physical therapy trying to regain full function of her hands. She has a slight limp and some less noticeable issues. Some of these she may never be able to overcome.

But she's alive. She defied the odds, the "experts" and no one can explain to this day how her brain managed to continue functioning and literally "heal itself."

As God is my witness, every word above is true.

Why some people manage to recover and others not is still beyond our ability to figure out why.

[kevao]

Maybe there is still hope for liberals!

No, this guy was vegetative but aware. Libs are aware but vegetative.

[JimSEA]

My wife was a nurse but quit in her mid thirties to concentrate on raising our daughter. It was like a ton of bricks was lifted from her back. She was always careful to explain what and why she was doing things to comatose and stroke affected patients as well as to the senile. Nursing is a wearing profession if done well.

[usconservative]

She was always careful to explain what and why she was doing things to comatose and stroke affected patients as well as to the senile. Nursing is a wearing profession if done well.

Your wife is one special woman. Such compassion. A true credit to her profession. I hope some day at a time of her choosing she gets back into it and shows these newer nurses how it should be done.

[tiki]

Same with my MIL, we talk to her like we used to, we tell her stories, she’s 92 and has dementia.

[sarasmom]

Terri Schiavo was not in any danger of dying, until the government stepped in to judge her “quality of life”.

Her cheating husband had two kids with his mistress, while spending ALL the insurance money awarded her for her palliative care, on lawyers in attempting to get the State to kill her, and to help usher in a “means test” for right to life.

He and his ghoulish pro-eugenics political death squad, won.
Jeb Bush allowed it.

I absolutely do recall correctly.

Because I was there, protesting outside her hospice,(which wasn't a legal place for her to be housed), each time the State of Florida allowed a court to order her forcible starvation and dehydration,up until the last time.
I had moved to another state.

"Somewhat unique" is one way to describe her “case”.
"Court ordered execution" is the only true and correct phrase.

[angryoldfatman]

Ramius wrote:

Tougher cases are like Terri Schiavo were there was (mercifully, IMHO) actually no brain left. No possibility of having had awareness for all of those fifteen years.

RushingWater wrote:

I thought the brain image for Terri Shiavo was hollow, i.e. the brain atrophied or something. I wonder if there are comparisons with his brain scan and her brain scan.

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Terri suffered brain damage, but a static brain scan uninterpreted by an uninvested expert (e.g., Terri's scan as interpreted by the public after being shown by George Felos) can't tell you anything about a person's functionality.

Example: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12301-man-with-tiny-brain-shocks-doctors.html#.VLSQXmc3M1I

Below is the brain scan of a man who could not only walk and talk, but also held down a full-time middle-class job.

[angryoldfatman]

The scan on the left was the man’s brain, the right one is a normal brain for comparison.

[21twelve]

I’ve heard some interesting stories with alzhimers. Friends of ours brings their mom to church every Sunday, and she’ll sing almost every hymn. Of course she doesn’t remember her daughter - but she enjoys the singing.

[maine-iac7]

I thought the brain image for Terri Shiavo was hollow, i.e. the brain atrophied/i>

You thought wrong

[punknpuss]

When did they do the brain scan on Terri? Before her death or after? I’m curious, because if it was after her death after almost 2 weeks of no hydration, wouldn’t it have appeared to be nonexistent or shrunken?

[kitkat]

“Jeb Bush was governor of Florida when the state allowed her husband to kill Terry Schiavo by starving her to death...”

Thank you for reminding me of that. NO JEB BUSH for president.

[chit*chat]

What a blessing for mankind that this man has survived and conquered this disability to make us aware that life exists everywhere. The individual is the one who is a comotose state. A true understanding of why it is the Creator and only the Creator who should terminate life. Are you listening planned parenthood, NOW, pelgastly?????

[JennysCool]

Sounds as thorough as a mainstream media “Reporter.” :)

[chit*chat]

Ditto, we should never forget Terry Schaivo and those complicit in her MURDER.

[MeshugeMikey]

God Creates Life and Lives..and its his perogative to end them