One day, Joan, in a state of hopelessness, told her son, “I hope you die.”"Man awakens from 12 years in 'vegetative state'"
“Yes, I was there, not from the very beginning, but about two years into my vegetative state, I began to wake up,” Martin recalls. “I was aware of everything, just like any normal person. Everyone was so used to me not being there that they didn’t notice when I began to be present again. The stark reality hit me that I was going to spend the rest of my life like that – totally alone.”
Martin had even heard his mother’s cruel words.
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Martin Pistorious fell into a mysterious coma
when he was a vibrant 12-year-old boy in the 1980s.
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13 comments:
So he was out of it but aware of all the garbage people were saying to him. wow.
This is why I say nice things to the pets.
It's embarrassing when a man trolls for sympathy.
I wander if he is related to the amputee that killed his girlfriend.
I dunno, something doesn't seem right here.
I'd say he's one of the lucky ones because the vast majority of us never awaken from our vegetative state.
This guy's story reminds me of my own youth when I was far more left-thinking - “You don’t really think about anything”.
"If you could be a vegetable" (without the quotes) pulls 90,800,000 results on google.
Cucumber would be my answer.
Seriously though, "vegetative state" should not be confused with "comatose."
I think I would be a carrot.
I had a carrot patch once, just a package of seeds strewn randomly but somewhat evenly in an area of loose well-worked dirt. Turned out to be underneath a drip from an air conditioner. The patch grew light green feathers for tops that gradually grew taller and grew together and turned into beautiful filled out patch of dark plants similar to ferns. Their tops are beautiful. Their roots grew straight down. In the Fall, they pulled right up, and man, were they ever good. And I just now found some carrot seeds. But I think they're about 7 years old.
Wait a minute. When you come out of a 12 year vegetative state, do you look all bubbly?
If I could be a vegetable I want to be a tomato.
The fruit bat is just trying to start trouble.
I'm going to buy and read the book before I comment. I am suspicious of the article promoting it.
Not to mention what folks might find attractive about the article promoting it.
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