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Woman wakes up after 27 years in a coma
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Awakenings is Oliver Sacks' personal account of a drug trial that temporarily brought back to full consciousness some patients who had been in a coma-like state for four decades due to an epidemic of encephalitis lethargica. According to Sacks' later writing, the drug did successfully revive some patients permanently to normal brain function.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awakenings_(book)
Incredible to think how much stuff has changed since then (and how much hasn't)
"oh boy, cannot wait to hear my favortie pop singer on the radio stations"
"oh boy, cannot wait to hear my favortie pop singer on the radio stations"
Was she asleep?
I wonder If it's true that people are actually completely conscious when they're in a vegetative state. They just cant move...
I wonder If it's true that people are actually completely conscious when they're in a vegetative state. They just cant move...
A lot of ERA people are really obsessed with the idea of smartphones as some wonderful advance. We had mobile telephony three decades ago. The Emirates in particular have been used to high technology for longer than most ERA posters have been alive.
I think it's a very open question as to whether this kind of long-term care is even the most humane option.
Shit. Didn't think if this.
Fucking nuts really is the perfect description.
She'll be shown The Last of Us and come to the conclusion that it's not even a game.
Wait so she woke up like 2 years after being transferred to a german hospital where they gave her different treatment?
Does that mean she could have woken up earlier if it was done earlier? It would be terrifying to think if there was negligence involved but it could also have just been technological progress
Does that mean she could have woken up earlier if it was done earlier? It would be terrifying to think if there was negligence involved but it could also have just been technological progress
Not only that but hey here is your adult son.. who you remember as 4.
That's so crazy, I actually misread it the 1st time and thought she was 4 years old when she went in the coma, which would have been even crazier.
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If a child falls into a long coma and wakes up, are they an adult or a child in an adult's body?
I would think so, except they would have gone through all the hormonal changes and stuff while they were out I think, but their level of knowledge and stuff would still be a child.
What are her mental faculties like? I'd imagine being in a coma for so long would either be the result of severe deterioration, or mental acquity would lapse just based on the amount of time, or some other factors... but I've never really known.
They've missed a lot of brain development and socialisation, to point out the most obvious. Their experience of the world would be in no way similar to that of an adult of the same age.
In the UK you'd be entitled to things like Pension Credit Guarantee, and possibly Personal Independence Payment based on your remaining disabilities. Housing Benefit would help with rent if you had no family to live with.
"You were in a coma between 1991 and 2019!"
"Oh man ... but at least in can experience flying cars, visiting space, explore full body virtual realty and world peace."
"Well ... those things still aren't a reality."
"Oh my god! The future is a post-apocalypse after the machines took over, companies rule the world and there are mutants everywhere, because of all the Atom-bombs humanity dropped!"
"... kind of ... but not really"
"So the future is similar to the 90s?"
"Similar and worse, but in a boring way"
"Ohhh...."
"Oh man ... but at least in can experience flying cars, visiting space, explore full body virtual realty and world peace."
"Well ... those things still aren't a reality."
"Oh my god! The future is a post-apocalypse after the machines took over, companies rule the world and there are mutants everywhere, because of all the Atom-bombs humanity dropped!"
"... kind of ... but not really"
"So the future is similar to the 90s?"
"Similar and worse, but in a boring way"
"Ohhh...."
sell the movie rights and write a book about your recovery? if possible of course
Star Wars
The Matrix
Lord of the Rings
Game of Thrones
Trump, Brexit, 9/11, Princess Diana
The world wide web
Good lord
The Matrix
Lord of the Rings
Game of Thrones
Trump, Brexit, 9/11, Princess Diana
The world wide web
Good lord
That's happened before. Dude was like that for several years or something
That's...something. Pretty remarkable but scary at the same time.
She had been undergoing physiotherapy and had a few surgeries to maintain muscle functionality. Unsure how far that goes to practical usage, but she wasn't completely unstimulated for all those years.
She had been undergoing physiotherapy and had a few surgeries to maintain muscle functionality. Unsure how far that goes to practical usage, but she wasn't completely unstimulated for all those years.
It's a serious problem and is addressed by physiotherapy targetting the nerves and muscles that are most vulnerable to wasting. Success over that kind of timescale is likely to be very low. I'd expect her to have difficulty moving around without a motorised wheelchair at least for the near future.
I think I would be upset if I woke up after 27 years. Like why would my family or doctors put me through that?
I wonder if she dreamt at all, and if so, was it one long continuous dream (as in, she lived a 27 year long dream), and is waking up shattering the reality her own mind created for her?
Imagine living in a 27 year lucid dream, only to forget that entire life, with only a faint glimmer of memory of it ever happening upon waking up.
Imagine living in a 27 year lucid dream, only to forget that entire life, with only a faint glimmer of memory of it ever happening upon waking up.
Shes been in a coma 5 years longer then ive been alive
Crazy. I cannot imagine the panic of the amount of change to family, history, technological changes.
Crazy. I cannot imagine the panic of the amount of change to family, history, technological changes.
Interesting.
Well hopefully she can recover enough to move around and live a normal life.
I still wake up some days and see my kids who are in their thirties and wonder how that happened so suddenly. I helped to deliver them, I changed their nappies and told them bedtime stories and taught them, and now they're amazing adults who are about the same age I was when they were born. I was there all the time, but as they grew more independent a mental distancing intervened, giving them the space to grow. So it's probably not so different. The main difference would be not having the personal growth I have had, and that in part is due to the experience of parenting.
This is fucking me up - she didn't get to do even half of that. She wasn't there to see her son do so much. Forget even the technological or cultural changes in the world. She missed out on seeing her son grow into a man.
What an incredible story.
I know this isn't her, but I can't help but wonder how it would be for me to have gone into a coma in 1992 at 12 years old and then waking up 27 years later and all of a sudden being 38, almost 39. I'd love to read some stories about children that fell into a coma, woke up as full grown adults, and how they coped with that and moved on from it. Do any of you know of any true stories like that at all? Talk about an even bigger shock and adjustment.
I know this isn't her, but I can't help but wonder how it would be for me to have gone into a coma in 1992 at 12 years old and then waking up 27 years later and all of a sudden being 38, almost 39. I'd love to read some stories about children that fell into a coma, woke up as full grown adults, and how they coped with that and moved on from it. Do any of you know of any true stories like that at all? Talk about an even bigger shock and adjustment.