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Started by garbon, November 23, 2009, 01:30:03 PM

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garbon

November 23, 2009, 01:30:03 PM
If this article stub is true, that's the definition of hell.

QuoteA mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed.

Rom Houben had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had sunk into an apparent coma. Still, his family continued to believe their son was conscious and had sought further medical advice.

Dr. Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse said Houben's mother finally met Belgian expert Steven Laureys, who realized that the medical diagnosis for her son was wrong. Laureys then taught Houben how to communicate through a special keyboard.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgsMsAOMKbccOJb8x-r1pkC1PPCQD9C5B9T00
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Caliga

#1
November 23, 2009, 01:32:15 PM
Wow... amazed he's not utterly insane.
0 Ed Anger Disapproval Points

Josquius

#2
November 23, 2009, 01:32:38 PM
So has he gone nuts?
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Tamas

#3
November 23, 2009, 02:03:20 PM

Syt

#4
November 23, 2009, 02:04:42 PM
Kinda like:
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Syt

#5
November 23, 2009, 02:05:45 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 23, 2009, 01:30:03 PM
If this article stub is true, that's the definition of hell.

QuoteA mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed.

Rom Houben had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had sunk into an apparent coma. Still, his family continued to believe their son was conscious and had sought further medical advice.

Dr. Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse said Houben's mother finally met Belgian expert Steven Laureys, who realized that the medical diagnosis for her son was wrong. Laureys then taught Houben how to communicate through a special keyboard.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgsMsAOMKbccOJb8x-r1pkC1PPCQD9C5B9T00

There was an interview in Spiegel. It was not until the doctors ran a CT recently that they realized he was wide awake.
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

Grey Fox

#6
November 23, 2009, 02:26:21 PM
Dragon Age references, already!


There was an episode of House about that condition.
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MadImmortalMan

#7
November 23, 2009, 02:29:30 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 23, 2009, 02:04:42 PM
Kinda like:



Watch out for the anti-spoilertards!!!!!11


:P
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Syt

#8
November 23, 2009, 02:30:12 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 23, 2009, 02:29:30 PM
Watch out for the anti-spoilertards!!!!!11


:P

I am an antispoilertard!
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

Proud owner of 42 Zoupa Points.

KRonn

#9
November 23, 2009, 02:35:31 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 23, 2009, 02:05:45 PM
Quote from: garbon on November 23, 2009, 01:30:03 PM
If this article stub is true, that's the definition of hell.

QuoteA mother says her son has emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state to say he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed.

Rom Houben had a car crash in 1983 and doctors thought he had sunk into an apparent coma. Still, his family continued to believe their son was conscious and had sought further medical advice.

Dr. Audrey Vanhaudenhuyse said Houben's mother finally met Belgian expert Steven Laureys, who realized that the medical diagnosis for her son was wrong. Laureys then taught Houben how to communicate through a special keyboard.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hgsMsAOMKbccOJb8x-r1pkC1PPCQD9C5B9T00

There was an interview in Spiegel. It was not until the doctors ran a CT recently that they realized he was wide awake.
Wow... that is amazing.   

Martinus

#10
November 23, 2009, 02:46:39 PM
Quote from: Syt on November 23, 2009, 02:04:42 PM
Kinda like:


OMFG ARE YOU FUCKING STUPID FOR POSTING A SPOILER LIKE THIS?!?!?!?!

Martinus

#11
November 23, 2009, 02:47:33 PM
Quote from: Grey Fox on November 23, 2009, 02:26:21 PM
Dragon Age references, already!


There was an episode of House about that condition.

There is a medical condition that involves making references to Dragon Age? :o

Eddie Teach

#12
November 23, 2009, 03:35:06 PM
Chronodracospoilertardiasis.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Ed Anger

#13
November 23, 2009, 03:52:59 PM
Johnny Got His Gun wants its references too.

Goddamn nerds.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Lucidor

#14
November 23, 2009, 04:09:51 PM
"Locked in syndrome"

I'd rather die, methinks.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Have_No_Mouth,_and_I_Must_Scream

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