If you enjoyed the perogies, you'll love this.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/02/polish.coma.reut/index.html
Democracy stuns Polish coma man
POSTED: 10:00 a.m. EDT, June 3, 2007
Story Highlights
• Polish railway worker wakes after 19 year coma• Surprised to find communism is over in East European country
• Remembers country of rationing and lines at gas stations
WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.
Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.
"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.
"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.
"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.
"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."
Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.
He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/06/02/polish.coma.reut/index.html
3 comments:
"Super Express reported Dr. Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying"
What the hell is Super Express and where can I get me some?
"Ze capitalisht brings wanderous guuds!" exclaimed Grzebski.
This sentence confuses me: "He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him." I think there's a better way to word this to make it sound less like some polish witchery. Unless it is. In which case I proclaim the Polish satanists. But also I think that this guy is Jesus. And I think Chu is also.
No fair, Matt. thats too many Jesuses.
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