“You don’t really think about anything”

“You simply exist. It’s a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish.”

One day, Joan, in a state of hopelessness, told her son, “I hope you die.”

“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.

"Man awakens from 12 years in 'vegetative state'"

 

Martin Pistorious fell into a mysterious coma

when he was a vibrant 12-year-old boy in the 1980s.

Not the guy I would spot in a lineup ;) Looks very good for a guy who's been away that long.

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