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Polish Man Wakes Up After 19 Year Coma

rawstory.com — Polish guy in coma for 19 years. Wakes up to word without communism and 11 grandchildren.

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cesarandreu, on 10/11/2007, -9/+167Very touching. I cannot imagine myself being in a coma for 10 years, much less 19. Too many things would change. I would feel dumb trying to use a computer or anything electronic.
- cr4ft, on 10/11/2007, -11/+103Just shows you how we're all guilty of taking so much for granted
- Ulisses, on 10/11/2007, -1/+108A situation exactly like this serves as the plot for Goodbye, Lenin!
- wonderchemist, on 10/11/2007, -82/+8"I would feel dumb trying to use a computer or anything electronic."
  
  I dunno about that one, 19 years ago is 1988. The foundations of the modern GUI was already out there (Windows 2.0 and System 6) now the underlying technology may be obsolete, but all the basics with how you interacted with the computer are there. If you were an expert user you could go in and start editing files Vi without skipping a beat.
- HunterTV, on 10/11/2007, -36/+17So... I suppose nothing happens when he touches someone... no glimpses of the future or anything like that? Bummer.
- kamilmarkowicz, on 10/11/2007, -7/+151wonderchemist: "I dunno about that one, 19 years ago is 1988. The foundations of the modern GUI was already out there (Windows 2.0 and System 6)"
  
  Yea - especially in communist Poland in the 80's. There was no food in the stores, not to mention anything electronic :).
- sockpuppets, on 10/11/2007, -5/+126What word did he wake up to? What happened to his grandchildren?
- jacekpoplawski, on 10/11/2007, -26/+8There was no food in stores, but some people had Atari or Commodore.
- jonathantneal, on 10/11/2007, -25/+3sockpuppets: the word was 'love'
- pogfreak, on 10/11/2007, -14/+275He's gonna flip when he sees the hospital bill
- HyperJack, on 10/11/2007, -1/+74Well that was a nice sleep. Hmm. Time for a coffee I think.
- kamilmarkowicz, on 10/11/2007, -8/+180@pogfreak "He's gonna flip when he sees the hospital bill"
  
  Not so much... They have universal healthcare :).
- sfpfc, on 10/11/2007, -23/+4He should be happy to know that Kevorkian's release did not affect him in any way
- Threnody, on 10/11/2007, -6/+131Yeah ten years would be tough. I mean, when you're used to Windows 95, how would you know how to use Vista?
  
  Oh wait...
- chris9902, on 10/11/2007, -0/+50He's just about to enter the 90s. God how I envy him.
- blaaguuu, on 10/11/2007, -17/+2@sockpuppets
  "What word did he wake up to? What happened to his grandchildren?"
  
  The word was Democracy - And the terrorists got them.
- timo1023, on 10/11/2007, -7/+69Weeeelcoooooome tooooo theeee fuuuuutuuuuuureee!!!
  
  Futurama, eh?
- mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -1/+89Kent Brockman: Tonight, on Eyewitness News: a man who's been in a coma for 23 years wakes up.
  Man: Do Sonny and Cher still have that stupid show?
  Kent: No, uh, she won an Oscar, and he's a Congressman.
  Man: Good night! [turns over and dies]
- sundancekid503, on 10/11/2007, -0/+62Though happy to be awake, he's really disappointed that we still don't have hoverboards.
- sfpfc, on 10/11/2007, -0/+136Basil Exposition: Austin, the Cold War is over!
  Austin Powers: Finally those capitalist pigs will pay for their crimes, eh? Eh comrades? Eh?
  Basil Exposition: Austin... we won.
  Austin Powers: Oh, smashing, groovy, yay capitalism!
- SomaSynth, on 10/11/2007, -2/+32"There was no food in the stores, not to mention anything electronic :)"
  
  Oh, it wasn't that bad. Plenty of peaches and apples to pick. I once found 20,000 złotych in a sandbox and bought ice cream. I even had change left for bubble gum. The gum came wrapped in a short comic strip, so that was a 2 for 1.
- Hayaemsay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+29@timo1023
  
  'Welcome to the world of tomorrow!'
- Jawsh91, on 10/11/2007, -0/+23Man: What are all these tubes doing here?
- FatBird19, on 10/11/2007, -2/+18"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning." said Grzebski.
  
  A sad day for him if he ever comes to America.
- liquidarts, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Somasynth, I was wiping the screen with my finger where you wrote zlotych, until I scrolled down some more!
- Zhay, on 10/11/2007, -10/+3@liquidarts
  
  What kind of tard wipes the screen with his finger--even if it is dirty?
- vroom101, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Remarkable! What a happy story for everybody!
- ayeroxor, on 10/11/2007, -10/+1liquidarts: "I was wiping the screen with my finger where you wrote zlotych"
  
  He didn't write "zlotych," he wrote "złotych." But kudos for being able to admit that not only are you completely culturally ignorant, you're also the kind of dumb slob that smears his greasy, pudgy fingers all over his monitor in a vain attept to "clean" it. That takes guts.
- bboySNO, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2For those who don't bother to scroll through comments, here is the the BBC link posted below with more info, picture and a video of story:
  
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6715313.stm
- slowmo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Direct to video link:
  http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f3a_1180834460
- takeda, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"here was no food in stores, but some people had Atari or Commodore."
  
  very true, I got my Commodore 64C on that year :)
  It was possible to get electronic back then, but it was in the special storest caled Pewex, where you paid for it using dollars :)
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pewex
- Hillsfar, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Rip Vanwinklowski. :-)
- Armando57, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1wakes up from a coma and his IQ drops 50 points.
anagoge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+49Truly amazing. So much has happened in the last two decades.
- 1ooo, on 10/11/2007, -5/+0He woke up in a very shameful moment of our history. We still live in a deep socialism.
halleyscomet, on 10/11/2007, -2/+218"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.

That's a nice bit of perspective.
- thnksnow, on 10/11/2007, -90/+5i would throw my mobile at his balls
- samadam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24yeah it is interesting that in the past 19 years the only two real inventions that caught on are the internet and cell phones. And you don't see the internet walking down the street. Must be strange.
- waluum, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.
  
  I think this is one of those very rare cases where one man is right, and the majority of the population is wrong.
- kitwaites, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1@samadam
  
  And modern computing. Twenty years ago you'd walk down a street with handwritten signs, almost get hit by a car controlled by a human rather than computer, and be served on a manual till. Now electronics are everywhere.
Indyanna, on 10/11/2007, -46/+19Good thing Dr. Kevorkian wasn't in Poland during those years.
- atdigg, on 10/11/2007, -4/+77From what I know Dr. Kevorkian assisted people who wanted to die, not people in coma (but I might be wrong).
  
  That's called "physician-assisted suicide", when you are in come you cannot commit suicide.
- michael4lsu, on 10/11/2007, -94/+9Good thing the people who demanded and ordered the lengthly and painful execution by starvation of Terri Schiavo were not there.
- SniperGX1, on 10/11/2007, -7/+61Good thing his brain wasn't dead and shrunken like Terri Schiavo's.
- Myko, on 10/11/2007, -6/+69michael, you're an idiot - there was a major difference between schiavo and this fellow. schiavo was completely brain dead, for one. i.e: her brain no longer had the capability of functioning for anything except regulation of breathing and the like. no cognitive ability. This guy was in a coma, his brain did not deteriorate to the level hers did.
  
  I can't believe you people are still bitching about terri even after the autopsy proved 100% that the doctors, and her husband, made the correct choice.
- Brian48216, on 10/11/2007, -3/+41@michael4lsu
  
  There is a difference between a Coma, which is what this guy was going through, and PVS (Persistant Vegitative State) which is what Terry Schaivo was in.
  
  "A coma is a profound or deep state of unconsciousness. An individual in a state of coma is alive but unable to move or respond to his or her environment. Coma may occur as a complication of an underlying illness, or as a result of injuries, such as head trauma. A persistent vegetative state (commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as "brain-death") sometimes follows a coma. "- http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/coma/coma.htm
  
  This guy is able to talk and what not, his brain likely didn't change too much. Compared with Terry Schaivo whose brain lost half it's mass due to PVS.
  
  So drop that *****. She wasn't even capable of feeling pain at that point. The two cases are very different.
- koonchu, on 10/11/2007, -9/+23@atdigg:
  
  "when you are in come you cannot commit suicide"
  
  Yeah, but you can drown in it, which is kind of like suicide.
- johnpaul191, on 10/11/2007, -1/+7he didn't have brain damage. being in a normal coma is more like a long sleep. the freaky thing, for him, is that the last thing he remembers is probably the accident or something that happened earlier that day. it said he was a railyway man and got hit by a train. while being overjoyed to be alive and awake, it's got to be crazy to have a blank 19 years of existance.
- atdigg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9yeah, unfortunately he's 19 years older, it's not like he was preserved in ice...
- popfrogs, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3@atdigg:
  
  "when you are in come you cannot commit suicide"
  
  Does come have some kind of revitalizing element to it? If so I may be able to talk my wife into some Bukkake later.
- atdigg, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5now I think you look too much into a typo...
- takeda, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"he didn't have brain damage. being in a normal coma is more like a long sleep. the freaky thing, for him, is that the last thing he remembers is probably the accident or something that happened earlier that day. it said he was a railyway man and got hit by a train. while being overjoyed to be alive and awake, it's got to be crazy to have a blank 19 years of existance."
  
  In the video he said he heard what they were saying to him, he just was unable to respond.
alabamasucks, on 10/11/2007, -6/+138He must be pissed about his front row Guns N Roses tickets
- doronster195, on 10/11/2007, -2/+9Can someone explain this reference? I don't get it.
martinraul, on 10/11/2007, -38/+5His wife deserve some credit too, 20 years without...(im just guessing...)
- Armando57, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Probably has three kids in middle school, "Hilda, you got some splaining to do..."
exemef, on 10/11/2007, -3/+32what happened to the train?
SmackMyMac, on 10/11/2007, -20/+3I wish I could wake up in a word without communism, to bad I'm stuck living in the WORLD.
JayyMan, on 10/11/2007, -2/+78His wife is the hero.

"For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.

The Yahoo! story is a little different.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070602/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_poland_awakening
- Tallon29, on 10/11/2007, -1/+56A coworker of mine was in a coma for 4 days after contracting Insefilitis(sp?). He said he was totally aware of everything that went on around him, but was unable to move or respond in any way. That has to be the most horrifying, traumatic experience for someone to go through.
  
  Reminds me of the Metallica "One" music video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-j39ABZyzek
- smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18wow, i'm sure it's different for everyone, and different types of comas can result in different levels of consciousness, but being completely aware of your environment but being unable to move or respond to those around you would be pretty scary and traumatic. it'd be enough to make me go mad probably if i were like that for several years.
  
  i mean, we're social creatures, and we need social interaction. i'd rather be in a dream state, which we are used to being in for a third of our lives, rather than being conscious but completely paralyzed. that's sorta like having a night terror, which is pretty scary when you don't know what's going on.
- blinkfink182, on 10/11/2007, -1/+10@tallon:
  
  Thanks for the link. I almost forgot the stupid ass faces Lars made when he drummed.
- 15charmaxwtf, on 10/11/2007, -0/+20I hate those dreams where you're stuck and can't move, I can't imagine how messed up being in a similar situation in real life would be, and for longer.
- jjbuchan, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1Wouldn't be surprised if there was a drug like that, but there's also those spiders from Lost :)
- popfrogs, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Serpent and the Rainbow FTW.
- patkirkrick, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12"There's a chemical substance that does that to people. I forget the name of it. It completely paralyzes you, makes you appear to be dead, but you're really not."
  
  It's called Thanksgiving dinner.
Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -43/+5What do you call a Polish guy who wakes up after a 19 year coma?
- nreynolds, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3919 years older?
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -7/+19"What do you call a Polish guy who wakes up after a 19 year coma?"
  
  Smart
  
  In all honesty, why is Poland the butt of so many jokes? Have they just been that nice and unassuming that people feel they must joke about their innocence?
- Birdoftruth, on 10/11/2007, -0/+18@ thcobbs
  
  I would like to know too. They don't deserve any of those insults.
- CourtesyFlush, on 10/11/2007, -7/+4I'd call him very fortunate.
  
  And there is no insulting punchline here. It's just a question. I don't see why it's being dugg down in the first place.
  
  Digg is such a humorless place.
- otoutosama, on 10/11/2007, -2/+19I believe the origin of the Poland jokes is WWII where Poland put up a valiant effort to resist Hitler even though far overpowered. Apparently people thought it was very stupid for the poles to fight back when they were so clearly outmatched, especially since they still had some cavalry units mounted on horseback fighting against Germany's panzers. Although I can see why trying to stick a bayonet into a tank can be considered stupid, I think they really should have a more heroic reputation than stupid.
- kamilmarkowicz, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16Actually, the whole attacking tanks with bayonets thing was just a communist propaganda. When I was growing up in Poland, even newer history books were debunking these myths. Horses were being used for fast transportation, but the soldiers had guns and could fight as normal infantry. The obvious advantage of having a horse was their ability to move quickly thru difficult terrain, where you could not use standard vehicles.
- binkitybonk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11in america at least, jokes that polish people have sub-average intelligence arose during waves of heavy eastern-european immigration in the early 1900s. earlier waves of immigrants were largely western european or even english speaking (like the irish) and so assimilated more quickly. also, most of the eastern european immigrants were unskilled laborers and therefore more poorly educated than the population at large. although the eastern europeans came from many different countries, the largest segment was of polish origin, or so i remember learning years ago.
  
  poland has a very rich history of music, literature, and science, and it's a shame so much of that was destroyed in the world wars.
  
  - your friendly neighborhood american of polish descent
- Dumbledorito, on 10/11/2007, -4/+1It doesn't help that Poland is pretty much between Europe and Asia. Any invading force from one area to the other just runs 'em right over.
  
  I was thinking they might have done well to sell arms to whoever was passing through at the time, perhaps with the addition of thermal underwear to anyone heading East.
underdog5004, on 10/11/2007, -14/+1Yeah, that happened to me once, but I got better.
- Rabbethan, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1First, it's a guy. Second, with all the dupes he will be able to see all the stories anyways.
Duggan360, on 10/11/2007, -12/+2Must feel weird, im all confused and angry when i sleep for more than 12 hours
cheti12, on 10/11/2007, -17/+6man.. she has an awful lot of backdated digg stories to go through.
pcsperson, on 10/11/2007, -10/+4It is good to know things like this can ahppen. I guess I am just in awe of th fact we still do not understand the depths of the human body.
PeTeRZz, on 10/11/2007, -2/+31Man, That would be just insane to wake up 19 years later. The technology leap must be mind blowing.
- thcobbs, on 10/11/2007, -0/+45I know we're (on digg) all thinking about the technology advances first...
  
  But his family.... How do you catch up on nearly a score of years with the people you have loved the most?
- PhillyMJS, on 10/11/2007, -3/+14"The technology leap must be mind blowing."
  
  Not really. In 1988 they had the 386. In 2007 we have Vista, which makes the machine it's on run like a 386.
ThinkDaddy, on 10/11/2007, -7/+3I'm glad he finally woke up!
JJsays, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31Has anyone ever asked these people who wake up after years in a coma, if they feel rested? Cause I'd like to know that.
- mdavis, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1I have always wondered that too.
TheSevenDuffs, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7http://youtube.com/watch?v=c0snC9_E_no
That is all.
UnitedAssault, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8It's incredible how he can wake up into a 'word'.
- smackhero, on 10/11/2007, -2/+42Clippy: it appears that you are trying to awake from a coma, would like me to:
  - tell the nurse that you're awake now
  - direct you to the bathroom so you can take the piss you've been holding in for 19 years
  - increase your morphine drip and sleep for another decade
- consonance, on 10/11/2007, -16/+2@smackhero
  You're a horrible person.
- idonthack, on 10/11/2007, -2/+7i lol'd
melikbilge, on 10/11/2007, -23/+0That is strange, since I've never heard of people in a coma waking up, much less after 19 years.
- idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -0/+31Are you serious? Maybe you're confusing a coma with death?
knaps, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16This reminds me of a funny movie in Germany called Goodbye Lenin in which the main character's mother falls into a coma before the Berlin wall/communism fell, waking up afterwards. The whole movie is her son trying to hide that from her (she used to be a party member and the shock could cause some complications)
- bergur1, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2I remember that movie on HBO a year or so back. It was really touching and funny.
- crossmr, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4that reminds me of a post I read about 2 hours before yours....where this guy said this story reminded him of that movie..
Novion76, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7wish there were more articles/info; this one was disappointingly short.
Daveecee, on 10/11/2007, -13/+5What world without communism? China is no longer communist?

I'm surprised this breaking news has not hit the internet yet.
- merlingen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18Errrr Mao has been dead for a while, China is pretty capitalist in all but name now...
- theone3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Erm.. Democracy and Capitalism don't go hand in hand. They are a dictatorship with capitalist sectors and communes, whereas they they were a dictatorship with communes only. However they still consider themselves a communist regime. Having been to China, I can tell you it's definately not free and definately not free-market. They have free market zones that a small sector of the popuation is a part of, the rest is agrarian/commune-like. And there's also Cuba.
- idugcoal, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9The guy comes out of a coma, and the part of the world with which he was intimately familiar, namely Poland, is no longer under Communist rule. I didn't think there was really any confusion about that, or why you would think that the author or submitter forgot about China. The article makes it pretty clear that the guy's opinions about the changes he sees are on his local level. Perhaps if you had read it, you would have noticed, too.
- Daveecee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@idugcoal
  
  I read the article before posting, and nowhere in the article does it make a mention of a "world without communism." It states pretty clearly "country without communism," which is true. This is why I am confused that the poster would put up a description containing the phrase "world without communism."
  
  @merlingen
  
  Like theone3 said, China may be moving toward Democracy, but they are certainly not capitalist. The People's Republic of China is still dominated by their communist party.
- cynicist, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1I take "world without communism" to mean his world, or what he sees of it. Sure, if you ignore the context its untrue.
vanarothiel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+16Wow, it's actually the first time I've read some news in my local media before it hit digg =D
willlx, on 10/11/2007, -9/+2Because of this, I disagree about the euthanasia.
- MicrosoftBob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2I'm sure he's thinking the same thing!
btbridges, on 10/11/2007, -6/+1with my new cell phone, i have no reason to complain about anything! life is perfect now that i can walk down the street and have my boss call me on my day off!
wonkavsn, on 10/11/2007, -2/+5"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning. I've got nothing to complain about," said Grzebski.

I find this a bit of a strange thing to say since he's only been conscious for about a day...
Mast3rDigg3r, on 10/11/2007, -5/+1do you still age normally when in a coma?
- jockser, on 10/11/2007, -1/+13Of course you do, because if that was the case then you would see liza minelli trying to hit herself with a pipe in the head.
Samzo, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13i wanna know more about what his coma was like... does he remember anything? was he dreaming? he was in his own fantasy world for 19 years... sounds dope
- johnpaul191, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8in most cases "the last thing they remember" was the accident or something from that day. they can have trouble adjusting to the fact that so much time has passed.
  supposedly some people in some types of comas do kind of hear people talking to them. when i was in highschool i a guy that i had gone to school with was in a car accident and spent a year or so in a coma. people that knew him from back then made tapes talking to him and recalling old events and stuff. the doctors said that there is at least a theory that sometimes that will stimulate just the right kind of brain activity to make them snap out of it. even if it may not work, it can't hurt to try something so simple and harmless.
- MicrosoftBob, on 10/11/2007, -1/+11"sounds dope"
  
  Yeah, I think that was the popular phrase around the time he got hit by that train.
r1y23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+8This reminds me of Aliens when she wakes up from being frozen in the escape pod. But instead of aliens and evil business men there are Phones and a series of tubes
- johnpaul191, on 10/11/2007, -7/+2that series of tubes was the internet!
PureHeretic, on 10/11/2007, -8/+1PRAYER DID IT!!!

.....jk?
mopemiph, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2This story has got to be crap. Ive seen a documentary on a man from Arkansas who "woke up" out of a coma after 19 years, and he still thought it was 19 years ago and there was no telling him any different. That this guy is even speaking should be the story, not his opinions on the world. Just seems fake to me.
- r1y23, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3so since mr.arkansas just happened to experience the same thing, this guy has to react the exact same way?......
- Hour13, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yeah. It's not like you see in the movies...when they are in a coma for months or even years then suddenly wake up and are just 'fine'. They show that in soap operas a lot too. Very misleading. blah. In the real world, when someone is in a coma (especially for that long), usually they need to learn how to do everything all over again. Eating, talking, walking....everything. Lots of therapy. This story sounds a bit 'fishy'. Or they have left a lot of info out.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1actually that is not the case. There are different kinds of coma and different states before it. Annie Shapiro whom spent 29 years in a coma literally woke up wanting to watch "I Love Lucy".
jockser, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Yes the good ol' days with Microsoft word communism 2.11
blackmetalvideo, on 10/11/2007, -6/+2you forgot Poland
sk8ordiemofo, on 10/11/2007, -3/+24Rob Schneider was a family man living in communist poland, with everything going right for him, until he got hit by a train! But hes about to find out, that catching up after a 19 year coma, is harder than it looks! Rob Schneider is....the 19 year coma guy!
simosalminen, on 10/11/2007, -4/+0Life on mars anyone? I wonder if he imagined himself in 1960's working on the railways :P
Ioncannon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7Here is an article from a Polish news site with pics from the man, plus a video about it:
http://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/Wiadomosci/1,80273,4197258.html
http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/wideo/44,80733,4196000.html

Its in Polish though.
- Woah_G!, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2They should really put some subtitles when he's talking, you can barely understand him.
bluechips23, on 10/11/2007, -2/+16"Yes sir, the Germans have united and Bill Gates is the new richest person in the world. And oh yeah, America is in yet another war."
EugineMW, on 10/11/2007, -17/+2Damn. Lets hope Terri Schiavo parents doesn't hear about this story.
- givemereplay, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Her brain was liquified, much like yours.
blackjack75, on 10/11/2007, -0/+10In a sense he gets to experience Time Travel!

The downside is he woke us as an old man :-)
CourtesyFlush, on 10/11/2007, -9/+3wrong place, digg down
attamars, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6Give him a couple days..."why did I have to wake up"
MicrosoftBob, on 10/11/2007, -6/+7"You mean, he was elected TWICE?!"
- jtorkbob, on 10/11/2007, -3/+2Yes, that whole Clinton thing really messed with my head too.
thekms, on 10/11/2007, -5/+5All I have to say is that I'm proud to be Polish today; maybe I have his resilience gene...
- Sputs, on 10/11/2007, -5/+2Alright lets be proud of being polish, national hero time and brag about what country we come from, all he did was wake up from a coma. You should be sorry for the guy, not "proud" of him.
- thekms, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I said I was proud of my heritage, not him. That's 4th grade reading comprehension. And I was just joking around, I thought people would get that.
  Oh, and why should I be sorry, he's alive and well. Yes, he a large part of his live, but he's fine now and that's all that matters.
phervers, on 10/11/2007, -2/+8Well this story is more weird than it seems... In the train accident he lost most of his teeth, but he was going to work for a couple more weeks. Then doctors found out that he has a large (5 cm diameter) brain tumour, and diagnosed that he will live for a month or two, he slowly stopped moving and speaking and finally fell into a coma. He woke up after 19 years on June 12. He was lying in bed and looking up, he could not speak or move, right now after two months of rehabilitation he can speak, and move, most probably he will be able to walk. He says that he knew everything, but he couldn't speak and that made him angry. And when he got angry he didn't want to speak or even think, he just lied. Actually his wife says that she had some contact with him, that he gave her signs with eyes and face expressions. She says that she always knew if he wants to drink tea or cofee, and that he was not in coma, but he was so weakened that he could not speak and move his arms or legs...
- steal_apps01, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9are you bull ***** me, site your source please
- remek, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1thats basically what was said in the video here: http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/wideo/44,80733,4196000.html
xerus, on 10/11/2007, -7/+1forgot polaaaaaaaand?!?!!?23reorwe
DeFex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7I hope they dont make a movie about it with Adam Sandler
gamgee911, on 10/11/2007, -1/+1SURPRISE!!
yukevster, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3BBC does it better.........

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6715313.stm
handler, on 10/11/2007, -3/+1Imagine how he will react when he discovers polish emos.
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