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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Scout26 on January 16, 2015, 01:10:29 AM
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This sure sounds like it. Being forced to watch and listen to Barney every farkin' day for twelve years.
It's also an amazing story of the human body's resiliency and ability to heal itself.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/man-wakes-up-after-12-years-in-vegetative-state-reveals-i-was-aware-of-ever
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Ever wonder how many guys just like him get unplugged?
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Hell I'm surprised after about two years he didn't wake up just to off the nurses for putting him through that *expletive deleted*it.
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Ever wonder how many guys just like him get unplugged?
That's been my thought for some time.
I can't imagine the torture this man has been through. In addition to the prison of his own body, his own mother telling him to die?
Also, it's interesting to me from the article: Who was it that bore all the stress and work of dealing with taking care of him every day, sacrificially? His dad. I think that may have been the largest saving grace: seeing how much his father loved him and cared for him, even as he (the father) thought his son couldn't understand what he was doing.
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That's been my thought for some time.
I can't imagine the torture this man has been through. In addition to the prison of his own body, his own mother telling him to die?
Also, it's interesting to me from the article: Who was it that bore all the stress and work of dealing with taking care of him every day, sacrificially? His dad. I think that may have been the largest saving grace: seeing how much his father loved him and cared for him, even as he (the father) thought his son couldn't understand what he was doing.
Attributed to many:
"Character is what we do when we think no one is looking."
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Ever wonder how many guys just like him get unplugged?
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Or vivisected.
Linked from OP article:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/doctor-says-about-brain-dead-man-saved-from-organ-harvesting-brain-death-is
21-year-old Zack Dunlap, a man who was diagnosed as "brain dead" and who was mere minutes away from having his organs harvested, now says, four months after the accident that brought him to the brink of death, that he feels "pretty good."
"The young man was never dead," said Dr. Paul Byrne, a former president of the Catholic Medical Association who began writing about brain death in 1977. What makes Dunlap’s case unusual, though not unheard of, says Byrne, is that Zack was lucky enough to be found out to be alive before his vital organs were removed.
He was always living - his heart was always beating, there was always blood pressure, he was always very much alive."
Dr. Byrne says that over the years he has collected information pertaining to numerous cases where patients labeled brain dead have "returned from the dead." The reason being, says Byrne, is that "brain death is never really death."
Plans to remove her son’s organs, however, were put on hold in a dramatic fashion.
Two of Zack’s cousins, both nurses, said that, in the final moments before the medical team that was to harvest Zack’s organs arrived, they felt that their cousin wasn’t truly gone. On a hunch Dan Coffin ran his pocket knife across Zack’s foot. The supposedly brain dead patient reacted immediately by jerking back his foot. Coffin then dug his fingernail beneath Zack’s fingernail, a particularly tender spot on the body, and his cousin once again reacted by drawing his arm across his body.
"We went from the lowest possible moment to, ‘Oh, my gosh, our son is still alive!’" related Pam Dunlap.
The young man himself told NBC that he heard the doctors pronounce him brain dead, and said, "I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do." When asked what he wanted to do, he responded, "There probably would have been a broken window they went out."