24 November 2007

Polish Coma Patient Awakens 19 Years Later

This from NPR's Morning Edition:


...Back in 1988, Jan Grzebski was hit by a train. He fell into a coma, and if that wasn't enough, doctors found cancer in the Polish railroad worker's brain. Doctors said they couldn't do any more for him, so his wife took him home. She cared for him for 19 years — until he woke up. She noticed Jan Grzebski trying to talk earlier this year. When he was last awake, Ronald Reagan was...


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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is an amazing tale! I always love to hear about medical "success" stories such as this one. Let's how that medicine will learn a lot from this case.