Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years

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Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years

Postby Don » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:19 am

What a nightmare, you're already paralyzed and then you're awake also but know one knows it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8375326.stm

A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.

Medical staff believed Rom Houben had sunk irretrievably into a coma after he was injured in a car crash in 1983.

A doctor at Belgium's University of Liege who discovered that Mr Houben had been misdiagnosed said his case was not an isolated one.

"I was shouting, but no-one could hear me," Mr Houben, now 46, was quoted as saying by a German magazine.

According to Der Spiegel, Mr Houben, who can now communicate by using a special keyboard, has described how his body did not respond when he woke up after the accident.

He has also said that he felt powerless as doctors and nurses tried to speak to him before giving up hope, and that he "dreamt the time away" as the years passed.

It was only in 2006 that a scan revealed that though Mr Houben was paralysed, his brain was in fact almost entirely functioning.

"I will never forget the day they discovered me," Mr Houben was quoted as saying. "It was like a second birth."

Mr Houben's story was revealed in a paper written by Steven Laureys, a doctor at Liege University who wrote a recent paper that detailed the case.

In it, Mr Laureys said that in about 40% of cases in which people are classified as being in a vegetative state, closer inspection reveals signs of consciousness.
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Postby Voyager » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:20 am

Living hell!
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Postby brywool » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:30 am

So he really didn't miss the whole Grunge thing?? Geez, poor guy indeed.


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Postby Voyager » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:30 am

What did he do when his balls itched?

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Postby Michigan Girl » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:31 am

I cannot comprehend this!! :?
His eyes, what about the eyes?!?! :wink:
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Postby Voyager » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:37 am

I think leaving someone artificially alive in a vegetative state is cruel and inhumane. I would not want to be left like that, would you?

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Postby Behshad » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:39 am

Wait till he buys his tickets to see Perry fronting Journey :shock: :twisted:
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Postby Michigan Girl » Tue Nov 24, 2009 6:45 am

Behshad wrote:Wait till he buys his tickets to see Perry fronting Journey :shock: :twisted:



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Postby Behshad » Tue Nov 24, 2009 7:08 am

Michigan Girl wrote:
Behshad wrote:Wait till he buys his tickets to see Perry fronting Journey :shock: :twisted:



Iiiiii'm not sayin' it... :evil: :wink:


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