Amazing! Firefighter wakes up from coma after 9.5 years

[Rufio]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7717220/

This is a pretty cool story

 

[Aquaman]

The Schivo people are going to have a fit :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

 

[tami]

very cool.

 

[SaltBoy]

Hope he's not a democrat...

"So, who's the President?"

"George Bush"

"Again?! NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!"

 

[DrPizza]

He wasn't in a coma for 9 1/2 years... only a couple of months.


edit: yes, I'm aware that he recovered after 9 1/2 years...
Coma: 2 1/2 months
Moron 9 1/4 years
suddenly regains some cognitive ability.

 

[iwearnosox]

Originally posted by: DrPizza
He wasn't in a coma for 9 1/2 years... only a couple of months.


edit: yes, I'm aware that he recovered after 9 1/2 years...
Coma: 2 1/2 months
Moron 9 1/4 years
suddenly regains some cognitive ability.

Sounds like a prime candidate for ATOT lifer. Someone invite him over.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Hope he stays that way. a lot of times people have sudden a sudden burst of cognition and then go back to being a vegetable soon after.

 

[cerebusPu]

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
Hope he stays that way. a lot of times people have sudden a sudden burst of cognition and then go back to being a vegetable soon after.

that would totally suck.. you'd be stuck with a veggie for a few more years.

 

[cerebusPu]

the first thing Id say is....."i want sex!" after 9.5 years.

 

[Yo Ma Ma]

Tennessee police officer Gary Dockery, who was brain damaged in a 1988 shooting, began speaking to his family one day in 1996, telling jokes and recounting annual winter camping trips. But after 18 hours, he never repeated the unbridled conversation of that day, though he remained more alert than he had been. He died the following year of a blood clot on his lung.

Well that's really sad, isn't it? Hopefully the fate of the firefighter will not be similar.

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
The Schivo people are going to have a fit :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

When I heard of this earlier today I was just waiting for someone to post that. The cases are 100% different. No one has ever come out of a state like Schivo was in. Lots of people have recovered from relatively short comas.

 

[Yax]

Originally posted by: cerebusPu

Originally posted by: mordantmonkey
Hope he stays that way. a lot of times people have sudden a sudden burst of cognition and then go back to being a vegetable soon after.

that would totally suck.. you'd be stuck with a veggie for a few more years.

Yeah, but he'll have a chance to inform everyone whether he wants to have the plugs pulled or not when he goes back in.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Originally posted by: Aquaman
The Schivo people are going to have a fit :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

Fvck the shiavo people.

 

[GeneValgene]

dayum...that's crazy!

 

[Sheepathon]

i'm starving like Terri Schiavo

/runs to get some cereal

 

[Storm]

Thats amazing...

But towards the end of the article there had been other examples of this type of temporary recovery/improvement. Lets see where this guy is a year from now.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: Aquaman
The Schivo people are going to have a fit :Q

Cheers,
Aquaman

Fvck the shiavo people.

agreed

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Hope he's not a democrat...

"So, who's the President?"

"George Bush"

"Again?! NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!"

Bush was the President in 1995?

EDIT: nvm, you're obviously referring to the first George Bush.

 

[0roo0roo]

coma does not equal liquid brain like shivo..
not all brain damage is the same and yes the shivo people dont care about distinctions.

 

[PingSpike]

Wow, this is pretty amazing. I hope he doesn't regress back like some of the other cases mentioned. At least he'll get to speak with his family again, even if it turns out to be only for a short while. That much must be a real gift for all of them.

 

[40Hands]

Originally posted by: SaltBoy
Hope he's not a democrat...

"So, who's the President?"

"George Bush"

"Again?! NOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooo!"

"Put me back in doc! Can you do it!!? Pleeeeaaasssee!!"