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She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by ido »

bee_rider wrote: post #40
IncRnd wrote: post #32

There is a movie loosely based upon her story. Forever Love is a poignant new television movie about a woman who awakens from a 20-year-long coma and begins her life all over again. ... 24-year-old Lizzie suffers a stoke. ... 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie wakes up. Miraculously, Lizzie is pronounced perfectly healthy and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed ... [1] [1] https://…

50's to 80's seems like a much more dramatic jump on so many levels than 20's to 40's. For the latter, you are dropped into the second act of your life and expected to catch up to a new world. Fish out of water stuff. The second, real story seems so much more tragic somehow.

I wonder if it only seems more dramatic because you are more familiar with the 50s and 80s than with the 20s and 40s? E.g. in many ways the 20s was a lot more liberal/"modern" than the 40s in a lot of places. I think a European going from the roaring 20s to the fascist/nazi 40s would have a hell of a shock.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by aaron695 »

razzio wrote: post #8

The husband dedication to support his wife is totally amazing.

That is fiction for you, it has amazing people in it.

But in real life this would be impossible medically, one person simply could not keep such a body functioning.

And more importantly mentally impossible.

And setting yourself up against fictional stories probably isn't good for you.

Fiction might be good to push yourself as a better person, but not to these ridiculous saccharine extremes.

With anything real, like palliative care, get support as soon as you can, by the time you are overwhelmed doing the paperwork and the waiting periods will be impossibly harder.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by qw »

ido wrote: post #51
bee_rider wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50's to 80's seems like a much more dramatic jump on so many levels than 20's to 40's. For the latter, you are dropped into the second act of your life and expected to catch up to a new world. Fish out of water stuff. The second, real story seems so much more tragic somehow.

I wonder if it only seems more dramatic because you are more familiar with the 50s and 80s than with the 20s and 40s? E.g. in many ways the 20s was a lot more liberal/"modern" than the 40s in a lot of places. I think a European going from the roaring 20s to the fascist/nazi 40s would have a hell of a shock.

I think the numbers refer to age and not decade. If you are 50 years old and wakes up at 80 your quality of life has dropped dramatically.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by Aeolun »

gcanyon wrote: post #46
heyheyhey wrote: post #13

What are the hospital bills like in cases like this?

I was in the ICU for a month after a motorcycle accident in the '90s. I didn't see all the bills, but one of them was for over $300K. 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.

Isn’t that the best insurance?

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by tromp »

imoverclocked wrote: post #12
ninesnines wrote: post #7

Wow, this is heartbreaking. I think I would rather just never come out of the coma - the trauma this poor women endured ….

At least she woke up before her husband died. Can you imagine waking up with the news that he passed after taking care of her for 30+ years?

It's sad that her husband only lived for another 3 years after she woke up.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by [deleted] »

IncRnd wrote: post #32

There is a movie loosely based upon her story. Forever Love is a poignant new television movie about a woman who awakens from a 20-year-long coma and begins her life all over again. ... 24-year-old Lizzie suffers a stoke. ... 20 years after her stroke, Lizzie wakes up. Miraculously, Lizzie is pronounced perfectly healthy and begins to try to assimilate back into a world that has radically changed ... [1] [1] https://…

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Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by MarcoZavala »

Shadonototra wrote: post #20

Sounds shady and fake AF My brother was in coma for a 1year, when he woke up, he couldn't speak for a few days and he couldn't walk at all for a few months So 30 years in coma, and waking up as a granny, i doubt you can ever make it and be this aware

No post body was provided.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by futharkshill »

> The Vietnam War ended, astronaut Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, Richard Nixon resigned over the Watergate scandal, communism collapsed and the world entered the computer age.

Americans tend to overestimate the importance of their events to describe the world changing.

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by williamtwild »

aaron695 wrote: post #52
razzio wrote: post #8

The husband dedication to support his wife is totally amazing.

That is fiction for you, it has amazing people in it. But in real life this would be impossible medically, one person simply could not keep such a body functioning. And more importantly mentally impossible. And setting yourself up against fictional stories probably isn't good for you. Fiction might be good to push yourself as a better person, but not to these ridiculous saccharine extremes. With anything real, like p…

why are other people saying it is not fiction?

Re: She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)

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Post by muzani »

schoen wrote: post #11
notshuttingdown wrote: post #10

Is there any proof this is a true story?

She's listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_awoke_from_... , in case that helps.

Funny that Wikipedia is used for verification. I'm not criticizing you; I reached for Wikipedia first thing after reading the link too.

Its source is poor quality and there aren't many good sources otherwise, so it's still suspect. https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=ryan&p=42&ite...

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