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Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along
Daily Mail [UK] ^ | 23rd November 2009 | Allan Hall

Posted on 11/22/2009 5:51:33 PM PST by EternalVigilance

A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.

46-year-old Rom Houbne was trapped in a coma for 23 years and had no way of letting anyone know he could hear what they were saying (pictured posed by model)

Rom Houben was trapped in a coma for 23 years and had no way of letting anyone know he could hear what they were saying (pictured posed by model)

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News
KEYWORDS: coma; conscious; deathcultivation; johnnygothisgun; life; moralabsolutes; patient; prolife; schiavo; terri; trapped; vegetativestate
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To: thecabal

we were kind of debating this kind of thing in an online class


41 posted on 11/22/2009 6:54:03 PM PST by GeronL
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To: buccaneer81

We could do that now if you’d only hold still for it.


42 posted on 11/22/2009 7:02:59 PM PST by muawiyah (Git Out The Way)
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To: goat granny

Thank you for that tip. I WILL remember.


43 posted on 11/22/2009 7:06:48 PM PST by Ditter
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To: peggybac

I was checking the thread for a mention of it “Johnny Got His Gun”, it was a movie too.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067277/


44 posted on 11/22/2009 7:07:39 PM PST by word_warrior_bob (You can now see my amazing doggie and new puppy on my homepage!! Come say hello to Jake & Sonny)
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To: muawiyah

At least Teri Schiavo was showing signs of life. She was most definitely murdered. But this poor guy, was it worth it under his circumstances?


45 posted on 11/22/2009 7:08:54 PM PST by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: EternalVigilance
Read the article. I cannot believe the poor guy is still sane.......what do you do with your mind all that time.

And did no one notice the slept occasionally? Body pattern are quite different then, and he most certainly slept. Sound like crappy socialized medicine to me................

46 posted on 11/22/2009 7:09:13 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: EternalVigilance
A real Edgar Allen Poe tale.

Leni

47 posted on 11/22/2009 7:11:53 PM PST by MinuteGal (Bill O'Reilly: 9/8/09: "Communism is not a threat to us anymore"-10/20/09: "Obama is not a Marxist")
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To: word_warrior_bob

Not to mention inspiration for the *best Metallica song evar*!


48 posted on 11/22/2009 7:18:26 PM PST by To Hell With Poverty (The War on Poverty is over. Poverty won. - Howie Carr)
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To: EternalVigilance

Another candidate for retroactive abortion...


49 posted on 11/22/2009 7:21:23 PM PST by Cacique (quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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To: ASOC
Yep, I figure that even in extremis, I can always send

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50 posted on 11/22/2009 7:22:05 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: PghBaldy
Before my dad died, he was in a coma-like state, but I assumed he could hear.

My mother was in a coma for a few weeks before she died. I had read that hearing is the last sense to go. So for the final two weeks of her life I ensured that her favorite music was playing. I also sought out and invited family and friends to her death bed, including good friends he hadn't seen for years. We sat, chat, and laughed--sometimes uproariously--about the good memories and times we had enjoyed with her. It was our way of honoring her and comforting her on her journey out of this life. I don't know for sure that she heard us, but I'm reasonably confident she did. And if she did, she could have only been cheered.

51 posted on 11/22/2009 7:23:56 PM PST by behzinlea
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To: PghBaldy
Before my dad died, he was in a coma-like state, but I assumed he could hear.

My mother was in a coma for a few weeks before she died. I had read that hearing is the last sense to go. So for the final two weeks of her life I ensured that her favorite music was playing. I also sought out and invited family and friends to her death bed, including good friends she hadn't seen for years. We sat, chat, and laughed--sometimes uproariously--about the good memories and times we had enjoyed with her. It was our way of honoring her and comforting her on her journey out of this life. I don't know for sure that she heard us, but I'm reasonably confident she did. And if she did, she could have only been cheered.

52 posted on 11/22/2009 7:25:07 PM PST by behzinlea
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To: EternalVigilance

Just wow! I cannot imagine what this poor man has been going through all of these years. Humbling story.


53 posted on 11/22/2009 7:30:23 PM PST by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: Bigg Red

Yeah. I guess if any of start feeling like we have it rough we should come back and read this story.


54 posted on 11/22/2009 7:38:52 PM PST by EternalVigilance (We're witnessing the slow strangulation death of American republican self-government and liberty.)
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To: EternalVigilance

I read a book similar to this.

Lady ended up typing a book one letter at a time with a pencil in her mouth.


55 posted on 11/22/2009 7:59:32 PM PST by TASMANIANRED
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To: EternalVigilance

The word “Hell” comes to mind.


56 posted on 11/22/2009 8:04:37 PM PST by ClaudiusI
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To: Sherman Logan

I agree, I would be insane. Thanks goodness he can communicate via computer and read now.


57 posted on 11/22/2009 8:07:29 PM PST by Freedom Dignity n Honor (There are permanent moral truths.)
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Ping


58 posted on 11/22/2009 8:27:13 PM PST by ChowChowFace
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To: EternalVigilance

59 posted on 11/22/2009 8:28:15 PM PST by Lesforlife ("For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb . . ." Psalm 139:13)
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To: Avoiding_Sulla

Time for the Death Culture to die!


60 posted on 11/22/2009 8:45:53 PM PST by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bomb-a administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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