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General Category => Health/Education => Life News => Topic started by: TomSea on January 14, 2019, 03:54:33 pm

Title: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: TomSea on January 14, 2019, 03:54:33 pm

It appears lifenews.com got this from NPR.  This apparently happened in South Africa and perhaps moved to England? Check details.:

 NPR story  (https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/09/376084137/trapped-in-his-body-for-12-years-a-man-breaks-free?utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=shotshealthnews)

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

In the 1980’s, 12-year-old Martin Pistorious became seriously ill with what doctor’s believed was Cryptococci Meningitis. His health started deteriorating and Martin lost his ability to move, make eye contact and even speak to others. His doctors told his parents, Rodney and Joan Pistorious, to bring him home and let him die. They told them he was as good as a vegetable.

However, he didn’t die.

Joan said, “Martin just kept going, just kept going.”

According to NPR news, his father would get up at 5 o’clock in the morning, get him dressed, load him in the car, take him to the special care center where he’d leave him. Rodney said, “Eight hours later, I’d pick him up, bathe him, feed him, put him in bed, set my alarm for two hours so that I’d wake up to turn him so that he didn’t get bedsores.”

Read more at: https://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/12/man-awakens-after-12-years-in-a-vegetative-state-says-i-was-aware-of-everything/#.XDyKzNMx5rk.twitter (https://www.lifenews.com/2015/01/12/man-awakens-after-12-years-in-a-vegetative-state-says-i-was-aware-of-everything/#.XDyKzNMx5rk.twitter)

Title: Re: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: mountaineer on January 14, 2019, 04:25:18 pm

... discovers he voted Democrat in several elections.

Title: Re: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: Polly Ticks on January 14, 2019, 04:27:40 pm

Quote from: mountaineer on January 14, 2019, 04:25:18 pm

... discovers he voted Democrat in several elections.

LOL.  That is so wrong.  And yet so funny.
 :rolling:

Title: Re: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: Sanguine on January 14, 2019, 04:48:56 pm

Fascinating story.

Title: Re: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: Gefn on January 14, 2019, 04:49:40 pm

Sounds like he had locked in syndrome.

Scary story.

Title: Re: Man Awakens After 12 Years in a “Vegetative State,” Says “I Was Aware of Everything”
Post by: truth_seeker on January 14, 2019, 05:51:13 pm

Quote from: Polly Ticks on January 14, 2019, 04:27:40 pm

LOL.  That is so wrong.  And yet so funny.
 :rolling:

I presume George Soros must be somehow involved?