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(London Times)   Up to 40% of patients in "vegetative state" are misdiagnosed and actually fully awake, but unable to speak or move. Pleasant dreams   (timesonline.co.uk) divider line
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Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2008-12-02 2:57:16 PM  
They're just faking it so they don't have to testify against their father.
 
Satan_Sunburn
2008-12-02 2:58:06 PM  
In before the obligatory Schiavo pic.
 
SnakeLee
2008-12-02 2:59:01 PM  
I really need to call a lawyer about a "Do Not Resuscitate" clause. My two biggest fears are laying in a hospital bed like that and randomly becoming a schizophrenic when I hit 35.
 
Jmast7
2008-12-02 3:05:44 PM  

Tr0mBoNe: They're just faking it so they don't have to testify against their father.


Looks like someone else watched "Criminal Intent" last night. :)
 
Pocket Ninja [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-12-02 3:08:06 PM  
I'm working my way through the Season of "Lost" where Nikki and Paolo...well, you know. Man, that was creepy.
 
Jmast7
2008-12-02 3:09:11 PM  

Pocket Ninja: I'm working my way through the Season of "Lost" where Nikki and Paolo...well, you know. Man, that was creepy.


But soooooo satisfying! :)
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2008-12-02 3:26:14 PM  

Jmast7: Tr0mBoNe: They're just faking it so they don't have to testify against their father.

Looks like someone else watched "Criminal Intent" last night. :)


I hate that show. I was thinking more along the lines of Arrested Developemnt.
 
Juansmith
2008-12-02 3:26:20 PM  
I saw this episode. Just give him a shot of cortisol.
 
You_mean_Im_gonna_stay_this_color
2008-12-02 3:27:35 PM  
Although Kate could not speak, or hear properly, or make any kind of signal, or take in sustenance except through a tube into the stomach, she was sometimes aware of herself and her surroundings. She had a raging thirst that was not alleviated by the ward staff. She was racked with pain. Sometimes she'd cry out, but the ward staff thought it was just a reflex action. Kate suffered so much pain and despair that she tried to take her own life by holding her breath.

This is why a tell everyone I know to just pull the farkig plug on me if I cant respond.
 
Jmast7
2008-12-02 3:30:11 PM  

Tr0mBoNe: Jmast7: Tr0mBoNe: They're just faking it so they don't have to testify against their father.

Looks like someone else watched "Criminal Intent" last night. :)

I hate that show. I was thinking more along the lines of Arrested Developemnt.


Weird. Only seen AD sporadically, but that was the exact plot of the CI rerun that was on last night. Thought of it as soon as I read the headline.
 
snocone [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-12-02 4:08:32 PM  
And none of you farkers is going to call this pulled out yer arse statistic out for verification?

FTA: December 9, 2007
Green???
Mayhaps Bonzo is filling in for moderators on holiday leave???
 
I_C_Weener [TotalFark]
2008-12-02 4:23:16 PM  
I'm in an animalistic state right now, but you don't see me complaining!
 
FredaDeStilleto
2008-12-02 4:30:56 PM  
FTFA: "Young man with motorbike head injury in a coma. His mum, a keen evangelical, comes every day with friends to sing Onward, Christian Soldiers by his bedside. She's hoping to stimulate his brain into action. It works: he comes round, but he can't speak. So they fit him up with one of those Stephen Hawking-type laptops, and the first words he speaks are: "For God's sake, Mum, shut it!"


Kill me.
 
GAT_00
2008-12-02 4:39:29 PM  
Juansmith: I saw this episode. Just give him a shot of cortisol.

Thank you House.
 
MasterThief
2008-12-02 4:54:31 PM  
Haleigh Poutre, thankfully, is available for comment.
 
Quasar [TotalFark]
2008-12-02 5:12:39 PM  

FredaDeStilleto: FTFA: "Young man with motorbike head injury in a coma. His mum, a keen evangelical, comes every day with friends to sing Onward, Christian Soldiers by his bedside. She's hoping to stimulate his brain into action. It works: he comes round, but he can't speak. So they fit him up with one of those Stephen Hawking-type laptops, and the first words he speaks are: "For God's sake, Mum, shut it!"


Kill me.


It was a hilarious story but I'd still smother the ungrateful wanker. At least his mother cared that much about him, horrible religious music notwithstanding.
 
bearded clamorer [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-12-02 5:13:02 PM  
Indiana?
 
Phil Moskowitz
2008-12-02 5:15:23 PM  
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Hiymenator
2008-12-02 5:16:04 PM  
TrOmBoNe, when I miss your lips, I'll put a fig in my mouth.

/you're such a pussy
 
Phil Moskowitz
2008-12-02 5:17:45 PM  
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RemyDuron
2008-12-02 5:17:58 PM  
Think that's bad? Try this:
Anesthesia Awareness (new window)

That shiat makes even me afraid to be put under. I've been knocked out twice before for surgery and I really didn't mind it (being a patient is the most relaxing thing in the world to me). But that shiat scares me something awful.

My grandfather woke up when they were taking out his appendix, but he wasn't paralyzed.

Quasar: FredaDeStilleto: FTFA: "Young man with motorbike head injury in a coma. His mum, a keen evangelical, comes every day with friends to sing Onward, Christian Soldiers by his bedside. She's hoping to stimulate his brain into action. It works: he comes round, but he can't speak. So they fit him up with one of those Stephen Hawking-type laptops, and the first words he speaks are: "For God's sake, Mum, shut it!"


Kill me.

It was a hilarious story but I'd still smother the ungrateful wanker. At least his mother cared that much about him, horrible religious music notwithstanding.


I'd definitely say the same thing. I mean, being trapped in your own head is terrifying enough. Probably badly sung hymns on top of that? AHHHHHG!

Just hook me up to my computer and start it on my music collection. By the time it plays through I'll probably either be back awake or beyond all hope.

/38.5 days of mp3s
 
Tr0mBoNe [TotalFark]
2008-12-02 5:18:05 PM  

Hiymenator: TrOmBoNe, when I miss your lips, I'll put a fig in my mouth.

/you're such a pussy


I can't believe you had to bleep that.
 
Der Poopflinger
2008-12-02 5:18:14 PM  
tough call, would you rather be alive but not able to speak, hear properly, or move or dead
pros and cons to both I'm sure
 
MachoGrande
2008-12-02 5:20:47 PM  
Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell
 
NYZooMan
2008-12-02 5:23:53 PM  
"Young man with motorbike head injury in a coma. His mum, a keen evangelical, comes every day with friends to sing Onward, Christian Soldiers by his bedside. She's hoping to stimulate his brain into action. It works: he comes round, but he can't speak. So they fit him up with one of those Stephen Hawking-type laptops, and the first words he speaks are: "For God's sake, Mum, shut it!" That's about as funny as it gets on a brain-injury ward,

Yeah, that's a real knee-slapper. Well, not for him maybe.
 
Ponzholio [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2008-12-02 5:26:48 PM  
What's the hardest part about eating a vegtable?

Getting around the wheelchair.
 
Der Poopflinger
2008-12-02 5:28:51 PM  

Ponzholio: What's the hardest part about eating a vegtable?

Getting around the wheelchair.


OR getting the nurses to leave you alone long enough to finish
 
ollin
2008-12-02 5:31:39 PM  

Ponzholio: What's the hardest part about eating a vegtable?

Getting around the wheelchair.


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/I had a spare
 
PooFlingingCHIMP
2008-12-02 5:38:01 PM  
Came for the Metallica reference leaving happy...
 
jso2897
2008-12-02 5:38:57 PM  

SnakeLee: I really need to call a lawyer about a "Do Not Resuscitate" clause. My two biggest fears are laying in a hospital bed like that and randomly becoming a schizophrenic when I hit 35.


If you're worried about going crazy, you shouldn't be hanging around Fark. It's not going to help.
 
Foaming
2008-12-02 5:58:02 PM  
Maybe it's Lupus.
 
fiegel07
2008-12-02 6:02:43 PM  

Tr0mBoNe: Jmast7: Tr0mBoNe: They're just faking it so they don't have to testify against their father.

Looks like someone else watched "Criminal Intent" last night. :)

I hate that show. I was thinking more along the lines of Arrested Developemnt.


My first thought too
 
Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here
2008-12-02 6:36:47 PM  

RemyDuron: Think that's bad? Try this:
Anesthesia Awareness (new window)


I don't think I'll be falling asleep tonight. Thanks jerk!
 
finnegans wake as read by morgan freeman
2008-12-02 6:42:36 PM  
the diving bell and the butterfly. that is all.
 
dittybopper
2008-12-02 7:27:27 PM  
This is why I think everyone should know Morse.

If you have control over *ANY* voluntary action, you can communicate in Morse. It can be eye blinks, puffs of breath, even simply moving your eyes left and right. ANYTHING voluntary.

If you find me alive but unresponsive, look for some Morse.
 
snake_beater
2008-12-02 7:46:03 PM  

dittybopper: This is why I think everyone should know Morse.

If you have control over *ANY* voluntary action, you can communicate in Morse. It can be eye blinks, puffs of breath, even simply moving your eyes left and right. ANYTHING voluntary.

If you find me alive but unresponsive, look for some Morse.


I suppose you got the idea from a certain movie?

/also came for the Metallica references
 
Quantum Apostrophe
2008-12-02 8:09:38 PM  
Locked-in syndrome. Terrifying shiat.
 
DeathByGeekSquad
2008-12-02 8:16:58 PM  
How do you misdiagnose a flat line?
 
greatgodyoshi [BareFark]
2008-12-02 8:27:18 PM  
How do you misdiagnose a vegetative state?

"special kind of scanner"

It's called a freaking EEG. What the hell kind of medicine are these people practicing? We get calls for EEGs on patients when they hiccup wrong, and these so-called physicians don't order one for someone with obvious altered brain activity? Wow. Just wow.
 
Szech
2008-12-02 9:04:28 PM  
I don't care if I am fully awake. If I'm in a vegetative state, KILL ME.


Or at least put a beer in my feeding tube every once in a while, and arrange for some tits in my face.
 
Basiorana
2008-12-02 9:58:06 PM  
Yeah, you know, I bet the religious right will use this as an argument for why we can't pull the plug on these people, but honestly my reaction to this was to turn to my fiance, read the headline, and say, "This just makes me want you to pull the plug on me even MORE if I wind up like that."
 
jake3988 [OhFark]
2008-12-02 10:35:06 PM  
You do realize, subby, that that basically is the definition of vegetative state.

If you can't speak or move, 99% of time you're probably brain dead :)
 
xSauronx
2008-12-02 10:38:15 PM  

Der Poopflinger: tough call, would you rather be alive but not able to speak, hear properly, or move or dead
pros and cons to both I'm sure


id rather be dead. i could get by in a wheelchair if my legs were paralyzed

id try living if i was paralyzed from the neck down...try being the key word.

but if i couldnt do *anything*

id rather not be here, thanks.
 
Jamdug!
2008-12-02 11:59:12 PM  
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FredoLaredo
2008-12-03 12:20:27 AM  
This news flash just in for all you worshipers of science:

THEY ARE ALL FLAWED TO ONE DEGREE OR ANOTHER!
 
Twist2005
2008-12-03 12:52:11 AM  
The only Morse I would be using would be whatever I'd need to beg someone to kill me. Or you know, piss someone off enough for them to pull the plug. I hate confined spaces. Being trapped in my own head would be unbearable. Of course, the echo would be interesting.

/can't sleep now
//mission accomplished subby, damn your eyes
 
iaazathot
2008-12-03 1:01:36 AM  
This article brought to you by the Bill Frist saving face campaign, and the Society for Fundie Denial.

/Bill Frist is a douchenozzle...
 
discost00
2008-12-03 10:34:16 AM  

RemyDuron: Think that's bad? Try this:
Anesthesia Awareness (new window)

That shiat makes even me afraid to be put under. I've been knocked out twice before for surgery and I really didn't mind it (being a patient is the most relaxing thing in the world to me). But that shiat scares me something awful.

My grandfather woke up when they were taking out his appendix, but he wasn't paralyzed.

Quasar: FredaDeStilleto: FTFA: "Young man with motorbike head injury in a coma. His mum, a keen evangelical, comes every day with friends to sing Onward, Christian Soldiers by his bedside. She's hoping to stimulate his brain into action. It works: he comes round, but he can't speak. So they fit him up with one of those Stephen Hawking-type laptops, and the first words he speaks are: "For God's sake, Mum, shut it!"


Kill me.

It was a hilarious story but I'd still smother the ungrateful wanker. At least his mother cared that much about him, horrible religious music notwithstanding.

I'd definitely say the same thing. I mean, being trapped in your own head is terrifying enough. Probably badly sung hymns on top of that? AHHHHHG!

Just hook me up to my computer and start it on my music collection. By the time it plays through I'll probably either be back awake or beyond all hope.

/38.5 days of mp3s


Once i total up the hours WinAmp tells me i've got 2.65 years... there must be a lot of crap on there.
 
Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here
2008-12-03 12:56:52 PM  

Satan_Sunburn: In before the obligatory Schiavo pic.


which, ironically, never came
/unlike you, when you look at Schiavo pics
//ya creep
///i keed, i keed
 
SgtMystery
2008-12-03 9:03:55 PM  

Insert_Obscure_80's_Pop_Culture_Reference_Here: RemyDuron: Think that's bad? Try this:
Anesthesia Awareness (new window)


I don't think I'll be falling asleep tonight. Thanks jerk!


You think that's bad...try this: Sleep Paralysis (new window)
 
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