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Awake after 23 years medical mistake! Reporting from home!

Brussels : Belgium | 2 months ago
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  • Rip Van Winkle Sleeps the years away
    Rip Van Winkle Sleeps the years away
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Rip Van Winkle Sleeps the years away

Good evening readers, A Belgian man is awake after 23 years. Rom Houben was diagnosed as being in a vegetative state but was said to have appeared to have been conscious all the while. He was allegedly in a coma after a car crash. He now types a letter stating that he missed out out on so much. He felt alone, lonely, frustrated, but at the same time blessed by his family. He wrote "It was especially frustrating when my family needed me. "I could not share in their sorrow. We could not give each other support." He also stated in the interview "Just Imagine. You hear, see, feel, think, but no one can see that. You undergo things. You cannot participate in life." How tragic. This is truly a miracle for this man. Arthur Caplan, a bioethics professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is skeptical, calling this "facilitated communication." Leave it to some people to not believe that there are miracles. As for this case it was misdiagnosis due to lack of technology. That's all for now. As always your comments are welcomed and encouraged! Reporting from a small town.

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Posted By Deepizzaguy Deepizzaguy | 2 months ago
A great story with a happy ending. Great job.
Posted By Shirley66 Shirley66 | 2 months ago
It is good though that she had awaken through the years.
Posted By PSDirectory PSDirectory | 2 months ago
omg that is sooo crazy! thats like being burried alive for 23 years
Posted By PSDirectory PSDirectory | 2 months ago
was this persons eyes closed while they were in a coma?
Posted By SACHIN2708 SACHIN2708 | 2 months ago
It is good though that she had awaken through the years.
Posted By mahpudinudin mahpudinudin | 2 months ago
very interesting news, thank you for the information
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  • News Source: News 24 | 2 months ago
    He saw his doctors and nurses as they visited him daily during their rounds; he listened to the conversations of his carers; he heard his mother deliver the news to him that his father had died...Doctors presumed Houben was in a vegetative state...
  • News Source: Seattle Times | 2 months ago
    Rom Houben's mother remembers her son's amazement when he finally started communicating again after spending 23 years locked in a paralyzed body that was misdiagnosed as vegetative. "Early on, he was surprised that the words came out of his finger,"...
  • News Source: The Age | 2 months ago
    Australians in vegetative states should be urgently reassessed to ensure they are not conscious and trapped inside their bodies, a medical specialist says. The director of neurology at St Vincent's Hospital, Mark Cook, yesterday called on families of...
  • News Source: NewKerala | 2 months ago
    The 46-year-old Rom Houben was injured in a car crash in 1983 when he was 20 and doctors took him to be in coma, although they now agree that he was conscious throughout. However, it was not until three years ago, when a specialised brain scan...
  • News Source: Asian Age | 2 months ago
    Steven Laureys, head of the Coma Science Group and neurology department at the University of Liege in Belgium, has this week spoken about a case where a car-crash victim was diagnosed as being in a coma for 23 years although he was conscious all...
  • News Source: The Scotsman | 2 months ago
    Belgian man who was diagnosed as comatose for 23 years typed out a message yesterday: he felt reborn after decades of loneliness and frustration. But a leading bioethicist has expressed scepticism that the man is truly communicating on his own...An...
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