Supposedly in coma for 23 years

These days I have been trying hard to refrain from all the useless things I have been doing and put my effort in anything useful, worthy of a penny may it be. After deactivating my Facebook account and lolloping in my couch surrounded by quarter-read novels and books, I never remained 2 meter away from my pc. And at the end of the day when I try to summarize the 'achievements' of the day there is only a Huaca playing in my celestial nugatory space.
I had many concepts about things in my head which never made their way out of hand because they were so airy and puny and imaginative that I day-dreamed them all from my eyes. Or I was so lazy to materialize them that I yawned most of them out of my mouth. Or I was in such a bad health that I sneezed them off my shuttle like nose. I was so drunk that I pipelined them all out through my excreting channels. Whatever my have happened to them, neither they are in my head anymore nor they ever made their way out of my fingertips. It is highly probable that 1 out of 100 could have been an innovative product that would hit the market and rock an industry. If not they would help me not freeze my mind, lose my consciousness, myself. They would have at least help me channel my thoughts. At the age of 24 years when I look back at achievements of my life, people I met, the soft petal like moments I shared with them is all scrambled and all I have is a vivid images of those people, those feelings. May be diaries should have been written, pages should have been saved, people should have remained intact and in contact. Blogs should have been written.
Here is a man paralysed and misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years. I wonder how much pain he would have suffered, how much joyous moments he would have missed. And how many times a day he would have wished for his death ? Mr. Rob Houben, the paralysed quotes through his 'special keyboard',""I was shouting, but no-one could hear me." Being heard, misinterpreted an d misjudjed is a different thing, to be unheard is a different thing. Mr. Houben further quotes, "dreamt the time away."
What did Mr. Houben miss and what did we achieve ?

Paralysed Belgian misdiagnosed as in coma for 23 years

Rom Houben now uses a special keyboard to communicate

A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.

Medical staff believed Rom Houben had sunk irretrievably into a coma after he was injured in a car crash in 1983.
A doctor at Belgium's University of Liege who discovered that Mr Houben had been misdiagnosed said his case was not an isolated one.
"I was shouting, but no-one could hear me," Mr Houben, now 46, was quoted as saying by a German magazine.
According to Der Spiegel, Mr Houben, who can now communicate by using a special keyboard, has described how his body did not respond when he woke up after the accident.
'Second birth'
He has also said that he felt powerless as doctors and nurses tried to speak to him before giving up hope, and that he "dreamt the time away" as the years passed.
It was only in 2006 that a scan revealed that though Mr Houben was paralysed, his brain was in fact almost entirely functioning.
"I will never forget the day they discovered me," Mr Houben was quoted as saying. "It was like a second birth."
Mr Houben's story was revealed in a paper written by Steven Laureys, a doctor at Liege University who wrote a recent paper that detailed the case.
In it, Mr Laureys said that in about 40% of cases in which people are classified as being in a vegetative state, closer inspection reveals signs of consciousness.


Courtesy : BBC