man wakes up

[MSGT]

A man from Handforth, near Wilmslow, Cheshire, woke from a coma after his life support was switched off - and ten days later gave his daughter away at her wedding.

Brian Paolo, who has emphysema, began to breathe on his own after the machine was switched off, according to The Sun.


http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol1140879164413C500

[Melz]

Wonderful news! I wonder who decided to shut off his breathing machine? The family sounds happy to have him back, this is a great story!!

[bannerman]

A man from Handforth, near Wilmslow, Cheshire, woke from a coma after his life support was switched off - and ten days later gave his daughter away at her wedding.

Brian Paolo, who has emphysema, began to breathe on his own after the machine was switched off, according to The Sun.


http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=iol1140879164413C500


same thing [ sorta ] happened to my dad

he'd been out for some days after having been given a drug that would either make him "more comfortable" or kill him

he didnt survive many more months after that however

that was nearly twenty years ago

[Eagle1]

think they'll tell him who decided to kill him?

not knowing would eat away at me, but maybe it would be better not to know

[DeclinetoState]

I hate to be morbid, but how much longer will the guy last? Emphysema is one of those illnesses that I think a lot of whose sufferers wish they were dead.

Remember that at one time, especially in the early '80s, emphysema seemed to be a job requirement for the head of the Communist Party in the Soviet Union. That was one of the reasons there were several bosses between Brezhnev (who I think also had it) and Gorbachev.