Yep, the article is the same / identical, but it's title, when originally written, was apparently: "When I Woke Up..."
It looks like somone along the way chaged the title to "Recovering from a 'Persistent Vegetative State'" (possibly at NPR?), even though the state described in the artivle is not a PVS state, but rather is a "Locked-in-State".
That change was made by someone, even thought the article does not contain the word Persistent, nor the word Vegetative, nor the word state, nor the abreviation PVS. It seems that someones biases / agendas / etc. is reflected in that change.
Again the article describes a relatively less severe case of LIS.
Thank you for locating the unaltered source. This gave me greater insight as to how various new "facts" may be evolving.
Ditto.