19 Year Coma is Over

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:58 pm

Pole wakes from 19-year coma in democratic country

Sat Jun 2, 10:50 AM ET

A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.

Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.

"For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.

"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."

Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.

He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:09 pm

thats amazing red ,you get all the good story's :-6 :-6

maybe i'm in a coma and your all a dream ,maybe i will wake up and have hair and be really good looking ,ouch just pinched myself i'm really here ,now how about you guys are you in a coma :-3

RedGlitter · Post by **RedGlitter** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:14 pm

jimbo;627401 wrote: thats amazing red ,you get all the good story's :-6 :-6

maybe i'm in a coma and your all a dream ,maybe i will wake up and have hair and be really good looking ,ouch just pinched myself i'm really here ,now how about you guys are you in a coma :-3

:wah: Thanks Jimbo. Can't help you with the hair but you are good looking. I know Suzy will agree with me.

Can you imagine the dynamics of that? Almost 20 years just gone? Would the world seem more futuristic? I was surprised when the story said he was vaguely aware of being taken to family gatherings. I didn't think comatose people were aware of much. It reminds me of Karen Ann Quinlan.

Mia · Post by **Mia** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:22 pm

Apart from his world changing,I think the wonderful thing about this story is the fact that his family have never given up and abandoned him. The good unselfish people out there never cease to amaze me.His wife is a very special person.

Mia

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:27 pm

Stories like this give me hope, great story Red.

Carl44 · Post by **Carl44** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:34 pm

chonsigirl;627421 wrote: Stories like this give me hope, great story Red.

dear rabbit never ever give up hope

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 7:27 am

I cant wait until my coma is over !

Post by **spot** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:07 am

It reminded me of the Colorado woman who woke up in March after six years, gave an interview to the local radio station and then relapsed. It's all rather strange the way some minds work.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/6347997.html has the story of that one.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 9:02 am

spot;627830 wrote: It reminded me of the Colorado woman who woke up in March after six years, gave an interview to the local radio station and then relapsed. It's all rather strange the way some minds work.

http://www.kktv.com/home/headlines/6347997.html has the story of that one.

Too easy.

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:54 am

Amazing just amazing the human body never quits surprising me. :-6

crazygal · Post by **crazygal** » Sun Jun 03, 2007 12:23 pm

OMG that's amazing! To come out of it with all of his facilities too.