Story all over the news today was about a fireman who woke up...the end of the BEEB story assures us he was not in "vegetative" state like Terry Schiavo...but there is a big question if Schiavo was in a vegetative state since she was able to recognize her parents, and laugh...
The article mentions several other people who woke up...
The one I am most familiar with is Mrs. White Bull, who woke up in an Albuquerque nursing home one Christmas a couple years back, after being comatose for over ten years. The doctors couldn't figure out why, but they "decided" it was the amantidine that they gave her for her influenza, a medicine that also is used for mile Parkinson's disease...
However, some nurses I worked with had another explanation. Ms. White Bear was from local pueblo, and her family held a novena to Blessed Kateri, an Indian woman who is up for sainthood...at the end of the novena, she woke up...
Ah there are more things on heaven and earth than one knows about...
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