… of this guy who was claimed to be in a “coma” or “vegetative state” for 23 years, but was actually fully conscious the WHOLE time.
Student Rom Houben was misdiagnosed after a car crash left him totally paralysed.
He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said.
Now, had his parents believed his misdiagnosis of being in a “vegetative state,” Houben would have been murdered in cold blood, despite the fact that…
his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.
Even with the most famous case that the media has used to justify assisted suicide, the Terry Schiavo case, her post-mortem examiners actually didn’t rule out that she could have been in a Minimally Conscious State (MCS) which is distinct from the Persistent Vegetative State (PVS) as diagnosed by her doctors.
People do recover from a coma. The article has an interesting story towards the end of another person who was about to be killed but recovered just in time…
Twenty years ago, Carrie Coons, an 86-year-old from New York, regained consciousness after a year, took small amounts of food by mouth and engaged in conversation.
Only days before her recovery, a judge had granted her family’s request for the removal of the feeding tube which had been keeping her alive.
