He was in a coma for two full weeks on complete life support. Gradually he came back from the fog, eventually being transitioned from ICU to a level of hospital care just below ICU, then out to a nursing home for mostly Alzheimer patients. This week he walked 150 feet with a platform walker.
He has had significant recovery to the brain, which shrank 15% with the trauma he suffered. He has a doctorate in Bio-Physics, and all though he has not a single clue what happened to him in May, he is able to converse with his care givers, albeit with aphasia intrusion. We are looking forward to him transitioning to an assisted living place sometime this year.
Back when he came out of the two week coma, I was able to ask him what he wanted to do, have life support removed or fight to see how far he could come back. I kept asking him for an entire week, with no response. Then, suddenly, I asked him again and he used sign language to request writing materials. He was right handed. With his left hand he wrote that he wanted to try and recover what he could, to see what was possible!
Never give up on someone just because they are comatose before you. The human being is a soul traveling this planet in a body. Some of the things my cousin has related recently would make the hair on your neck prickle. Reality is not what we think it is based upon just what the senses capture. he's been 'somewhere else' and returned here.
Cousin Tom spends the better part of his day and evening that he is in bed with an earplug inserted, listening to the prophetic books of the Bible as read by Andrew Scorby on CD. One of these days I have no doubt he is going to gush out quite an interesting missive which I will have to be quick to capture completely. He has told me, 'we live in interesting times, end times'.
kerping, if you’re interested in this sort of thing.
Wow, interesting story! Please keep us updated.
I would like to hear more about what he told you that made the hair on your neck prickle.
Very interesting to me.
Praying for your cousin, for the maximum recovery and God’s will be done.
(I had a cousin in a similar situation who fully recovered except for some small differences in her voice. Had to learn to walk, talk, feed herself, etc. from scratch.)
Yes, I would like to hear more, too.