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Man wakes up from coma to democracy
Topic Started: Jun 2 2007, 09:03 PM (608 Views)
Clapton
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WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- 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 lines 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.



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Just imagine how wonderful that would be to wake up from a 19 year coma, going into it while the country was communist and then waking up to freedom.

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Colin.
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I wouldn't consider it wonderful, overall. Wonderful that they are free now of course, and wonderful that he is a awake, definitely. His family must be overjoyed. =] I'm just saying it would be quite difficult to have to discover nineteen years of pop culture, current events, past events, family happenings, etc. I'm be constantly asking people what's going on. .___.
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Clapton
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Colin.
Jun 2 2007, 09:06 PM
I wouldn't consider it wonderful, overall. Wonderful that they are free now of course, and wonderful that he is a awake, definitely. His family must be overjoyed. =] I'm just saying it would be quite difficult to have to discover nineteen years of pop culture, current events, past events, family happenings, etc. I'm be constantly asking people what's going on. .___.

Indeed I do to, and this poor man had 19 years to make up. Imagine just thirty minutes for me. :clown: Seriously though, he won't know what half of the stuff is. And it will probably take him several weeks to months to just simply get used to a whole new lifestyle.
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Remzo
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Yeah.. I guess its pretty great losing 19 years of your life.
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Meltdown
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You're only supposed to spend 22 years of your life asleep. Lazy biatch.
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Jun 3 2007, 06:25 PM
You're only supposed to spend 22 years of your life asleep. Lazy biatch.

He's only got 3 left then.

That is quite amazing. Proves that when you are in a coma you can hear things etc.
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I think the sheer shock over the number of changes that had occured in those 19 years would somewhat overwhelm any joy he might have about the improved economic conditions. Seriously though, imagine everything he would have to learn and re-learn.
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That would be pretty amazing. Thing is, when you're in a coma, I wonder if you can tell how much time is passed...for instance you slip in and the next thing you know you're out, like you think no time has passed at all.
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Dang, poor guy.. 19 years. It would be shocking enough to know you've lost 19 years of your life. Adding the fact that his country had changed so much probably blew him away.
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Why the hell would they bring someone in a coma to gatherings? O.o

When My aunt was in a coma she was bed bound and wasn't to be let out the hospital. :/
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Wow, that would be a heck of a experiance.
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Kataklysm
Jun 3 2007, 12:03 PM
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WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- 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 lines 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.



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Just imagine how wonderful that would be to wake up from a 19 year coma, going into it while the country was communist and then waking up to freedom.

Thoughts, opinions?

How about missing your childrens weddings and the births of your grandchildren?
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Clapton
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Jun 6 2007, 05:28 AM
Kataklysm
Jun 3 2007, 12:03 PM
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WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- 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 lines 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.



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Just imagine how wonderful that would be to wake up from a 19 year coma, going into it while the country was communist and then waking up to freedom.

Thoughts, opinions?

How about missing your childrens weddings and the births of your grandchildren?

That wasn't the point of what I was saying. Yes, that is tragic. Though I'm talking about the changes to the country not his family in that sentence.
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Jun 6 2007, 05:28 AM
Kataklysm
Jun 3 2007, 12:03 PM
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WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- 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 lines 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.



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Just imagine how wonderful that would be to wake up from a 19 year coma, going into it while the country was communist and then waking up to freedom.

Thoughts, opinions?

How about missing your childrens weddings and the births of your grandchildren?

I'm sure the families didn't react by saying, "You missed my wedding, we're kicking you out of the family." And storm off. .___. He was just glad to be alive, as most likely his family was.
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Jun 6 2007, 07:42 PM
I'm sure the families didn't react by saying, "You missed my wedding, we're kicking you out of the family." And storm off. .___. He was just glad to be alive, as most likely his family was.

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Amazing story.

Can you imagine waking up 20 years later and seeing yourself and everything different? That is just amazing.
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