john cabrera

A man in Belgium was thought to be in a coma for the past 23 years, but really he was just paralyzed and unable to communicate with his doctors.

leilanilujan:

ohyeahfacts:

They call it “locked in.” You can hear, see and think, but your inability to respond to anything leads to a vegetative state diagnosis. The patient is basically trapped in their own body.

Biggest. Fear. EVAR.

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EVAAAAAAR

It may be the same thing, but there’s a version of this that can yield the diagnosis that you’re dead. People have regained their ability to move again while laying in morgues or being rolled away in one of those crime scene style body bags.

How many people throughout history watched as they were laid in a coffin and buried, only to overcome paralysis underground?