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  • Boy in "Hopeless" Vegetative State Awakens and Steadily Improves

    10/10/2006 4:04:27 PM PDT · by wagglebee · 301 replies · 4,245+ views
    LifeSiteNews ^ | 10/10/06 | Hilary White
    GRESHAM, Oregon October 10, 2006 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A young boy, who had previously been diagnosed as being in a “permanent vegetative state,” has awakened from a 22 month-long coma and is breathing on his own.Devon Rivers collapsed in a seizure during a phys-ed class in 2004 and his condition was never explained, though some doctors suggested it was caused by an unknown viral infection. Doctors agreed, however, that he had little hope of recovery. His mother, Carla Rivers, visited him regularly and, in addition to physical therapy by his paediatric nursing home to keep his limbs supple, she talked...