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Coma victim revives.


Dzialdowu -- Jan Gzewski, a railroad worker, was injured at work Ask a Lawyer

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Country: Canada
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I recently injured myself at the grocery store where I work. I was trying to move a powered lift jack out of the way so I could accomplish my assigned duties for the night.
 in 1989 and has remained in a coma coma, in medicine
coma, in medicine, deep state of unconsciousness from which a person cannot be aroused even by painful stimuli. The patient cannot speak and does not respond to command.
 for 19 years. While in hospital, he was also diagnosed with brain cancer and predicted never to recover. Sent home from hospital, he was cared for by his wife Gertruda, who always believed he would recover--which he did spontaneously in early June 2007. Mr. Grzewski finds life in 2007 very different from that in the totalitarian state Noun 1. totalitarian state - a government that subordinates the individual to the state and strictly controls all aspects of life by coercive measures
totalitation regime
 in which he feel asleep. Although still too weak to walk, he now speaks quite clearly and tells family members what he recalls of their conversations at his bedside while comatose co·ma·tose
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or affected with coma.

2. Marked by lethargy; torpid.


comatose (kō´m
. Gertruda, who fed and turned him over daily single-handedly during his illness, attributes much of his recovery to prayer.
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Title Annotation:Poland
Publication:Catholic Insight
Date:Jul 1, 2007
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