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This is the kind of detail a writer would throw into a heart wrenching story about love. A faithful husband dies just days before his wife wakes up from a 30 year coma.
If the wife wakes up soon after the husband dies you have to ask if there’s a causative relationship there- e.g., Munchausen by proxy
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I did a books.google.com search and there were no primary references, just a few lines in books about "amazing facts" and a reference to an episode of "Maury."
I was in a dead ass coma for a month. When I awoke I couldn't talk or move my arms and legs. After 3 months of daily in hospital rehab I could walk maybe 50 yards at a time and get up from a sitting position without aid and went home. It was a year before I felt I was normal. I was not overweight or in bad health before this. It's amazing how fast your body just quits if you don't move at all.
Is there any proof this is a true story?
The story probably happened, but the coma portion is embellished. It notes that she was able to participate in rehab and eat food, so she wasn’t unconscious in the traditional sense. It sounds like there was spontaneous return of function, which happens in various degrees following stroke anyway. Residual function plateaus about 1-2 years after on average, but this case would be an outlier. I am more intrigued which…
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I did a books.google.com search and there were no primary references, just a few lines in books about "amazing facts" and a reference to an episode of "Maury."
I was in a dead ass coma for a month. When I awoke I couldn't talk or move my arms and legs. After 3 months of daily in hospital rehab I could walk maybe 50 yards at a time and get up from a sitting position without aid and went home. It was a year before I felt I was normal. I was not overweight or in bad health before this. It's amazing how fast your body just quits if you don't move at all.
Several days after returning home I got stuck in the bathtub: I couldn't lift myself out, my wife couldn't lift me. After several false starts, we got me out by me lifting up a couple inches, and my wife shoving a pillow under my butt, several times. :-)
I was back at (office) work 2.5 months later, and biking to work 3 months after that.
All of which to say: 100% agreed -- do absolutely nothing and the body just wastes away.
What are the hospital bills like in cases like this?
I had the "bad" insurance at work, which had bigger co-pays for day-to-day stuff, but happened to have no max on coverage. I paid nothing.
She could “set up and walk” while in a coma. I didn’t know you could do that.
Glasgow Coma Scale
Eye Opening Response • Spontaneous--open with blinking at baseline 4 points • To verbal stimuli, command, speech 3 points • To pain only (not applied to face) 2 points • No response 1 point
Verbal Response • Oriented 5 points • Confused conversation, but able to answer questions 4 points • Inappropriate words 3 points • Incomprehensible speech 2 points • No response 1 point
Motor Response • Obeys commands for movement 6 points • Purposeful movement to painful stimulus 5 points • Withdraws in response to pain 4 points • Flexion in response to pain (decorticate posturing) 3 points • Extension response in response to pain (decerebrate posturing) 2 points • No response 1 point
Categorization: Coma: No eye opening, no ability to follow commands, no word verbalizations (3-8) Head Injury Classification: Severe Head Injury----GCS score of 8 or less Moderate Head Injury----GCS score of 9 to 12 Mild Head Injury----GCS score of 13 to 15
Reminds me of this man http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6715313.stm
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I was in a dead ass coma for a month. When I awoke I couldn't talk or move my arms and legs. After 3 months of daily in hospital rehab I could walk maybe 50 yards at a time and get up from a sitting position without aid and went home. It was a year before I felt I was normal. I was not overweight or in bad health before this. It's amazing how fast your body just quits if you don't move at all.
I was in an induced coma for a couple weeks, and intubated in the ICU for a total of about 30 days. When they deintubated me my breathing muscles were so weak I thought I would die of asphyxiation. They sent me home a few days later, as soon as I could climb a staircase (there were stairs leading to my front door). Several days after returning home I got stuck in the bathtub: I couldn't lift myself out, my wife could…