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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:17 AM   #1
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Default Patient trapped in a 23-year 'coma' was conscious all along

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worl...ous-along.html

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Therapy has since allowed him to tap out messages on a computer screen.

**** me!
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:22 AM   #2
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What a let down. I was expecting a really lazy guy who was just faking it.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:25 AM   #3
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that must have been ****ing HELL!

To be conscious but cant do **** for 23 years
That is just oone of the worst kinds of torture

Death would have been more humane.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:26 AM   #4
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that must have been ****ing HELL!

To be conscious but cant do **** for 23 years
That is just oone of the worst kinds of torture

Death would have been more humane.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:26 AM   #5
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What a let down. I was expecting a really lazy guy who was just faking it.
I thought the same thing when i saw it.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 04:05 AM   #6
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It gives a whole new meaning to the word patience.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 05:47 AM   #7
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It gives a whole new meaning to the word patience.
Indeed.

And that dark humourist in me would have giggled if the first thing he blinked out on the computer would have been:

"Kill me, you ****ing bastards."
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 05:56 AM   #8
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 01:22 PM   #9
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Shows the amazing resiliency of the human mind to live through something like that without going bat**** insane.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 01:47 PM   #10
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Tork, you're all about the positive threads lately between this and the throwing a dog off the bridge news
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 02:47 PM   #11
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Tork, you're all about the positive threads lately between this and the throwing a dog off the bridge news
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:09 PM   #12
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Just imagine if the fam and doc's decided to kill him, what he would he be thinking while the process was taking place and or hearing the conversation by your bedside?!?!?!
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 03:19 PM   #13
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Maybe he was as mad as a bucket of frogs in the first place and this sorted him out.
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 07:12 PM   #14
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Just imagine if the fam and doc's decided to kill him, what he would he be thinking while the process was taking place and or hearing the conversation by your bedside?!?!?!
"God damnit, finally"
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Old Nov 23, 2009, 04:57 PM   #15
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whAT THE FU*K
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I wonder what would be happen to patient in later 23 years? Will he able to see the futuristic thing?
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