Waking Up from a Years-Long Coma

Is it possible for a patient in a years-long coma to wake up?

Yes, although, from my limited understanding, such things are pretty rare.

How long is the longest coma that a patient is known to have recovered from?

Assuming we’re talking only about recent, medically verifiable events, it may well be Terry Wallis, who awakened in 2003 after a 19 year coma.

The Wolf

73 years. hee hee

it is possible for a patient in a years long coma to awake and return to nearly normal life. it is rare.

I have heard of cases where a person in a ‘coma’ needed surgery and was administered anesthesia. after the sugery the person awoke completely from the anesthesia. in most such cases but not all, this doesnt last. sometimes it does. why doctors dont try to exploit this fact as a treatment, I don’t know. I also don’t know how deep a coma these patients were in.

We’ll see if the US recovers from its four-year-long coma in 2012 or whether it will last another four years R”L after which it may be too late – and it will wake up speaking Chinese (or Arabic RL)

so if a quadruplegic eats a salad…is that cannibalism?

so if a quadruplegic eats a salad…is that cannibalism?

A. The term “vegetable” is offensive when referring to human beings.

B. You obviously don’t know what a quadriplegic is and/or unaware of just how the term “vegetable” is used with regard to humans.

C. I wouldn’t consider either condition one that should be joked about.

The Wolf