Monday, November 23, 2009

Patient Thought to be Coma for 23 Year Was Actually Conscious The Whole Time

Imagine being completely paralyzed, unable to communicate for almost a quarter century. Worse, no one even knows that your conscious remains unchanged. That frightening scenario was a reality for a man thought to be a 'vegetable' but who was totally aware of everything around him.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1230092/Patient-trapped-23-year-coma-conscious-along.html (via)

"A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night.

Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.

He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46.

Doctors used a range of coma tests, recognised worldwide, before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was 'extinct'.

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.
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