Posted on 06/03/2007 4:48:53 PM PDT by Barney Gumble
WARSAW, Poland - A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than it was under communism, his wife said Sunday. ADVERTISEMENT
Gertruda Grzebska, 63, said that for years she fed her husband Jan carefully with a spoon and moved his body to prevent bed sores...
"He was so amazed to see the colorful streets, the goods," she said. "He says the world is prettier now" than it was 19 years ago, when Poland was still under communist rule.
"I could not talk or do anything, now it's much better," Jan Grzebski, 65, told in TVN24 Television in a weak but clear voice, lying in bed at his home in the northern city of Dzialdowo.
"I wake up at 7 a.m. and I watch TV," he said, smiling slightly.
Wojciech Pstragowski, a rehabilitation specialist, said Grzebski was shocked at the changes in Poland — especially its stores: "He remembered shelves filled with mustard and vinegar only" under communism. Poland shed communism in 1989 and has developed democracy and a market economy.
Despite doctors' predictions that he would not live, his wife never gave up hope and took care of him at home.
"I would fly into a rage every time someone would say that people like him should be euthanized, so they don't suffer," she told local daily Gazeta Dzialdowska. "I believed Janek would recover," she said, using an affectionate version of his name.
"This is my great reward for all the care, faith and love," she told the AP, weeping.
I'll have to keep this story bookmarked the next time the libs want to stop feeding someone.
see also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844117/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1843757/posts
Dang it. i did a search! (but used a different title)
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