Polish man awakens

[Micah 16]

This story simply amazes me! This Polish man was in a coma for 19 years! 

Wow, how in the world would you start off by telling him the events that have happened since then. Just think, this man went into a coma during the Cold War. In fact, the last events he probably saw was the beginning of Solidarity and the beginning of the end of the Soviet Union. Just think about all the technological changes that have taken place. Personally, it surprises me that his family kept him alive that long. 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19037401/

[coolotter88 2]

my friend e-mailed this to me, It was weird.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

So he was away from 1988 onwards.  He missed a lot of fun.

[frogface 352]

The real Goodbye Lenin?

[Barbarossa 51]

Talk about culture shock! Everything he knew has changed. No more martial law, no tanks in the streets, no lines for barely enough food, no independence or freedom.

Now he has to deal with commercialism, low income, and partisan politics.

Barbarossa

[Silur 3,297]

This man have another life now - we must support him with our words .....

[bixel 1,221]

I am very amazed and somewhat relieved to hear this.

There is some interesting science news about body recovery - though sort related to returning from coma - it has to do with bringing people back from the dead (near death) as with the use of a defibrillator - or jump starting the heart. It turns out that doing so actually kills a lot of cells in the body - both the heart and the brain and possibly elsewhere.

What we consider dead, or in that state of seeming death, the body is not dead - even the brain is not dead. Scientists are starting to find out that this death thing is almost an illusion - it simply because the person is not moving or seeing or talking, we assume them dead. They are beginning to find evidence that cells go on standby mode - like windows os. Granted the cells cannot last long on their own, but there is some new insight to finding out that 'shocking' people out of this standby state actually causes more damage than getting into that state in the first place, Provided that there was no traumatic damage done to the body to get into this death state.

This is why people have recovered from 'death' when they have been rescued from freezing temperature lakes, etc. No brain damage done - in fact the brain effectively goes into super hibernation mode if no oxygen is given to it but it does not suffer brain damage so long as the blood circulation is kept up, oxygen supplied or not. So basically what I am trying to say here is that a new door has opened and we are beginning to catch a glimspe of some real possible means to bring people back from comas - near deaths - in a more nature non-harmful way. Difilibrators are a force blunt method to solving the death problem but evidence shows that it can cause so much trauma that it will actually kill the cells needed to revive the person effectively turning it into a gamble.

If preservation and tending of the cells is used - rather than a hasty manouver to jump start life, or a hasty decision to euthanize what is thought to be "dead". We can actually bring back more people to life with healthier longer lifespans. Since the body is not dead, pehaps it must be carefully coaxed out of it 'lock down' mode after necessary repairs have been made to the damaged tissue. kinda of like a fish thawing out of the frozen lake. Fish can actually sit there frozen through winter, like paused, then slowly brought back to normal during the thaw.

Srry I do not have any links to the science articles - there could be some on digg.

[fledder200 5]

well...at least the fashion is into the 80's again...so that is not a problem...oh and all his favorite shows are now on dvd instead of black and white tv ( did they even had color back than??)

god the poor soul doesn't even know what the European union is....well...maybe that isn't so bad afterall

[coolotter88 2]

yes, they did have color TVs back in the 80's. It wasn't THAT long ago.

[bixel 1,221]

no man, color and sound didn't get invented until the 90s - just like MTV.

/sarcasim

[fledder200 5]

you see...

[Easy Bakes 253]

No Berlin wall.

Has no Clue there a 3 more Star Wars Movies.

[Nerd_Guy 4]

He missed 17 seasons of The Simpsons! 

No really though, I wonder what it would be like to be him.

[Cjah 15]

Originally posted by: bixel no man, color and sound didn't get invented until the 90s - just like MTV.

/sarcasimquote>

 

You guys are talking about a coal miner and his wife...even when he was working in the 80s the couple probably didn't own or have the money for a TV...

so yes...for Eastern Europe Color TV didn't really CATCH ON till the fall of the wall...

I mean how many Soviet factories were building comercail goods in the 80s????

not many people understand the backyard of Europe...

[ciber 0]

Originally posted by: bixel I am very amazed and somewhat relieved to hear this.

There is some interesting science news about body recovery - though sort related to returning from coma - it has to do with bringing people back from the dead (near death) as with the use of a defibrillator - or jump starting the heart. It turns out that doing so actually kills a lot of cells in the body - both the heart and the brain and possibly elsewhere.

What we consider dead, or in that state of seeming death, the body is not dead - even the brain is not dead. Scientists are starting to find out that this death thing is almost an illusion - it simply because the person is not moving or seeing or talking, we assume them dead. They are beginning to find evidence that cells go on standby mode - like windows os. Granted the cells cannot last long on their own, but there is some new insight to finding out that 'shocking' people out of this standby state actually causes more damage than getting into that state in the first place, Provided that there was no traumatic damage done to the body to get into this death state.

This is why people have recovered from 'death' when they have been rescued from freezing temperature lakes, etc. No brain damage done - in fact the brain effectively goes into super hibernation mode if no oxygen is given to it but it does not suffer brain damage so long as the blood circulation is kept up, oxygen supplied or not. So basically what I am trying to say here is that a new door has opened and we are beginning to catch a glimspe of some real possible means to bring people back from comas - near deaths - in a more nature non-harmful way. Difilibrators are a force blunt method to solving the death problem but evidence shows that it can cause so much trauma that it will actually kill the cells needed to revive the person effectively turning it into a gamble.

If preservation and tending of the cells is used - rather than a hasty manouver to jump start life, or a hasty decision to euthanize what is thought to be "dead". We can actually bring back more people to life with healthier longer lifespans. Since the body is not dead, pehaps it must be carefully coaxed out of it 'lock down' mode after necessary repairs have been made to the damaged tissue. kinda of like a fish thawing out of the frozen lake. Fish can actually sit there frozen through winter, like paused, then slowly brought back to normal during the thaw.

Srry I do not have any links to the science articles - there could be some on digg.quote>

 

dude this sucks more longerlived people that sucks me are already stressing the earth at 6 bilyon like me need moer

[Voar Tok 4]

What would really have me freaked if I was him was the technology changes. This guy went away before the proliferation of the Internet, personal computers, and just about everything else that microchips have revolutionized.

[Joesocwork 4]

This reminds me of the movie Awakenings.

[Corranh 0]

Originally posted by: Cjah

You guys are talking about a coal miner and his wife...even when he was working in the 80s the couple probably didn't own or have the money for a TV...quote>

heh it wasn't so bad - I guess he had TV - maybe not color but he had. Poland was very poor in that time but we don't speak about 3th world.

Originally posted by: Cjah I mean how many Soviet factories were building comercail goods in the 80s????quote>

Soviet? :/ Poland was never a part of Soviet Union

[Micah 16]

Originally posted by: Corranh

Soviet? :/ Poland was never a part of Soviet Unionquote>

 

Another victim of the neuralyzer.

[Corranh 0]

Originally posted by: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republics_of_the_Soviet_Union

Republics of the Soviet Union

1. Armenian SSR
2. Azerbaijan SSR
3. Byelorussian SSR
4. Estonian SSR
5. Georgian SSR
6. Kazakh SSR
7. Kyrgyz SSR
8. Latvian SSR
9. Lithuanian SSR
10. Moldavian SSR
11. Russian SFSR
12. Tajik SSR
13. Turkmen SSR
14. Ukrainian SSR
15. Uzbek SSR

quote>

Poland was only ally

[Micah 16]

On the contrary, Poland was occupied by the Soviet Union, whether it was a republic or an ally. So, either way, this Polish man did experience life in Soviet control and now he's witnessing a completely different world.

[homeandaway 1]

Now that is simply amazing!. very interesting

He has missed out on so much!. I wonder what he thought when he saw the different in Warsaw in between then and now. Warsaw was very different then with hardly any high-rise, and now there is - he must of been amazed!.