People in vegatative state

nes · 03-21-07, 12:24 AM

I think this can go under abortion since people use this subject as a reference to abortion.

Discuss about this:

Woman in vegetative state awakes, slips on Yahoo! Health
USA

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She cannot walk or communicate, has no
awareness and has to be fed through a tube into her stomach.

, it just gets more heated.

CaptainCourtesy · 03-21-07, 02:53 AM

Moderator's Warning:

More appropriate in the 'Health Care and Fitness' Forum.

rathi · 03-21-07, 03:14 AM

Vegetative is a terrible word to use. This women has woken up multiple times since she first entered such a state. When pulling the plug, the patient has sustained permanent brain damage making recovery impossible. Sometimes people can recover from a comatose state, but with certain conditions, it is impossible to recover.

rivrrat · 03-21-07, 12:20 PM

I'm not sure what there is to discuss.

nes · 03-21-07, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by rathi

Vegetative is a terrible word to use. This women has woken up multiple times since she first entered such a state.

However the first time she awaken from such a state is still eight months.

USA

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A Colorado woman woke up after six-years in a vegetative state to spend
three lucid days with her family.

DenverPost.com - Woman awakes after 6-year coma, slips back

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The first time Lilly woke up fully was eight months after the cardiac arrest and stroke. She talked for about 90 minutes, then drifted back into unconsciousness. Each time she fully wakes, Minnie Smith talks to her about how long she's been gone.

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Originally Posted by rathi

When pulling the plug, the patient has sustained permanent brain damage making recovery impossible.

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5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) CHRISTA LILLY, WOMAN WHO AWOKE FROM COMA, SAYING:

"It's wonderful. It makes me so happy."

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Originally Posted by rathi

Sometimes people can recover from a comatose state, but with certain conditions, it is impossible to recover.

Looks like its not a comatose state but a "minimally conscious state".

Minimally conscious state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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A minimally conscious state (MCS) is a condition distinct from coma or the vegetative state, in which a patient exhibits deliberate, or cognitively mediated, behavior often enough, or consistently enough, for clinicians to be able to distinguish it from entirely unconscious, reflexive responses.

Gary Dockery - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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On September 17, 1988 he was shot in the forehead by a drunken assailant as he responded to a domestic disturbance call. He slipped into what doctors called a persistent vegetative state, unable to communicate except occasionally with eye blinks and groans — indicating that part of his brain was still working.

Terry Wallis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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regained awareness after spending almost 20 years in a minimally conscious state.

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Wallis was frequently classified as being in a permanent vegetative state. Though his family fought for a re-evaluation after seeing many promising signs that he was trying to communicate, their requests were turned down.