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Monday 23 November 2009

Life is Always a Miracle...

... but this story of a Belgian man "recalled to life"is something beyond the beyond. (h/t to Creative Minority Report.)
Most remarkable is M. Houben's determination to enjoy life and society, and LIVE.
A car crash victim has spoken of the horror he endured for 23 years after he was misdiagnosed as being in a coma when he was conscious the whole time.

Rom Houben, trapped in his paralysed body after a car crash, described his real-life nightmare as he screamed to doctors that he could hear them - but could make no sound.

'I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,' said Mr Houben, now 46, who doctors thought was in a persistent vegatative state....

Doctors used a range of coma tests before reluctantly concluding that his consciousness was 'extinct'.

But three years ago, new hi-tech scans showed his brain was still functioning almost completely normally.

Mr Houben described the moment as 'my second birth'...

Mr Houben said: 'All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt.' ...

The disclosure will also renew the right-to-die debate over whether people in comas are truly unconscious.

Ya think?

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