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She went to sleep and woke up 30 years later (1998)
- tamaharbor 5y agoShe could “set up and walk” while in a coma. I didn’t know you could do that.
- therufa 5y agoMaybe the goal was to give the story a scottish accent
- CoastalCoder 5y agoYeah, I wish the story gave a more precise explanation about her medical diagnosis. Even being able to walk with help doesn't fit my understanding of coma.
- joegahona 5y agoYeah, also "ate simple foods." These are red flags for me.
- ars 5y agoTo answer both of you, it's basically sleepwalking. The person is not conscious, but is able to function in an instinctive manner. There are stories of people in comas who were given a medication like zolpidem that wakes them, but it's actually sleepwalking and the person is not conscious. Search: https://www.google.com/search?q=zolpidem+coma https://www.google.com/search?q=zolpidem+coma These kinds of cases can help explain what consciousness actually is, which is hardly a settled question.
- lucb1e 5y agoOn the other hand, she had no recollection of anything in between but seemed to very well recall what was recently happening before she fell into that state. Mentally what we'd call a coma even if her body was not at the level of a vegetable. Intriguing story either way.
- thaumasiotes 5y agoNo, "mentally what we'd call a coma" would involve being unconscious. Remembering anything is well beyond the bounds of a coma.
- jboy55 5y agoSteve Wozniak mentions this happening to him after a plane crash. Where he had a period where he didn't form permanent memories, and when that passed and he was able to, it was as if he awoke from a coma, even though he was functioning and interacting with people during this time. Think if the Memento (kinda based on a real case) guy suddenly regained the ability to hold memories, he would "awake" and to a period years later. Perhaps something like this happened, where she was "around" and "interacting" but regained the ability to store memories and thus she "awoke".
- gcanyon 5y agohttps://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/resources/gcs.pdf https://www.cdc.gov/masstrauma/resources/gcs.pdf 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
- LorenPechtel 5y agoIt sounds like she had a certain amount of function but no long term memory function.
- gbourne1 5y agoFor a reprint from a newspaper there seems to be a lot of spelling mistakes…rally.
- caitlinface 5y agoPerhaps they used OCR on the newspaper to generate the text.
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- ninesnines 5y agoWow, this is heartbreaking. I think I would rather just never come out of the coma - the trauma this poor women endured ….
- imoverclocked 5y agoAt 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?
- xwdv 5y agoThis 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.
- evan_ 5y agoIf 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
- actually_a_dog 5y agoIt's far more likely that two people in their 80s would die at approximately the same time by natural causes than anything like Munchausen's by proxy.
- evan_ 5y agoI didn’t say die
- tromp 5y agoIt's sad that her husband only lived for another 3 years after she woke up.
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- razzio 5y agoThe husband dedication to support his wife is totally amazing.
- pcmoney 5y agoWhat a badass. Tougher than hell.
- aaron695 5y agoThat 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.
- williamtwild 5y agowhy are other people saying it is not fiction?
- pmarreck 5y agoI mean, didn't they make a movie called Awakenings about the true story of a bunch of people emerging from long-term vegetative states? Google "L-dopa"
- Thorrez 5y agoIt sounds like there were some other people involved: > He consulted experts, but no one could help her. > After two years of physical therapy, he finally got her to the point where she could set up and walk, assisted on either side. > She had cataract surgery, a hysterectomy and a hip replacement. > a retirement community in Florida > Dr Glenn Englander, who was treating her for high blood pressure the day before she awakened from her coma
- notshuttingdown 5y agoIs there any proof this is a true story?
- schoen 5y agoShe's listed in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_awoke_from_a_coma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_who_awoke_from_..., in case that helps.
- muzani 5y agoFunny 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&item=B:85005 https://www.paleycenter.org/collection/item/?q=ryan&p=42&ite...
- rendall 5y agoI wondered, too, and there isn't a lot of reliable information about it online
- fortran77 5y agoI 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."
- hansthehorse 5y agoI 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.
- heyheyhey 5y agoWhat are the hospital bills like in cases like this?
- Spoom 5y ago> The talented business-woman, who had run two apron shops near Toronto, Canada, before her illness, fell into a coma on Nov 22, 1963, aged 50. Given that the woman was from Toronto, probably $0.
- ransom1538 5y agoUS: $392,328,128.10 (She was not in network)
- ars 5y agoNone, Medicare kicks in for cases like this.
- gcanyon 5y agoI 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.
- Shadonototra 5y agoSounds 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
- jmcgough 5y agoIt's real, and there's some weird coma recovery cases (e.g. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/09/usa.richardluscombe https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/mar/09/usa.richardlus...)
- jessaustin 5y agoWhat, you don't trust "generationterrorists.com"?
- mkr-hn 5y agoIt looks like a classic E/N (everything/nothing) site.
- seattle_spring 5y agoI've never heard that term before and Google has failed me. Can you explain?
- 1121redblackgo 5y agoEverything/nothing makes me think of excessive hyperbole
- mkr-hn 5y agoThey were like web directories and the stuff they link to, but for one person's interests. The closest comparison in modern terms is a personal blog, but these would often host music and videos and random niche stuff like game save files and code. They often had a MIDI file auto-play if you had a sound card with MIDI support. Fancier sites had an MP3, but not every computer could handle it. Some had guestbooks or forums. Everything/nothing was usually abbreviated to e/n, but that leads to even fewer results on Google.
- coldtea 5y agoWell, let he who has never overslept cast the first stone...
- IncRnd 5y agoThere 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://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145783/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145783/
- bee_rider 5y ago50'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.
- ido 5y agoI 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.
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- mariuolo 5y agoReminds me of this man http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6715313.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6715313.stm
- Nux 5y agoReminds me of the "Goodbye Lenin" film, really good watch. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301357
- futharkshill 5y ago> 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.
- hericium 5y agoI hope I don't get flagged for resolving this domain.
- teslaberri 5y agoplot twist, he was banging her every night while she was unconscious....but you know it was his wife....so