Coma

[G1BTW]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Rom-Houben-Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html

I'm not a Daily Mail fan but found a copy on the train today and read this whole article with my jaw dropped. Poor bastard. What a horrific situation to be in.

Reminded me of a book I once read, The Coma, by Alex Garland. Not critically acclaimed, but a fascinating read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0571223087/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=471057153&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0571223079&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_r=0PGW5GXNYVNKXS0YN360

[G1BTW]

I did lol at the 'Glasgow Coma Scale' though. Probably developed in A&E at 2 am on a Saturday morning...

[InsaneTTM]

Darkness

Imprisoning me

All that I see

Absolute horror

I cannot live

I cannot die

Trapped in myself

Body my holding cell.

Metallica - One

[G1BTW]

Darkness

Imprisoning me

All that I see

Absolute horror

I cannot live

I cannot die

Trapped in myself

Body my holding cell.

Metallica - One

nice, ty

[G1BTW]

****! How would you cope?!?!


Every day, the world goes on around you, unaware of your conscious existence, and you have no way of communicating with it. It's almost like he became a professsional internet poker grinder for 23 years....

[G1BTW]

Ian Banks said this was the best book he ever wrote:

http://www.amazon.com/Bridge-Iain-Banks/dp/0316858544

[mondatoo]

This is a crazy story.

The thing that actually bothered me the most was that every single person who knows somebody in a coma will mostly have false hope that maybe there relative/loved-one/friend may have the same problem.Is false hope better than none at all

[G1BTW]

This is a crazy story.

The thing that actually bothered me the most was that every single person who knows somebody in a coma will mostly have false hope that maybe there relative/loved-one/friend may have the same problem.Is false hope better than none at all

Interesting point, hadn't considered that.

Acc to

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8375326.stm


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Mr Houben's story was revealed in a paper written by Steven Laureys, a doctor at Liege University who wrote a recent paper that detailed the case.

In it, Mr Laureys said that in about 40% of cases in which people are classified as being in a vegetative state, closer inspection reveals signs of consciousness.

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