Living Out Of Sync With Time...
It doesn't happen only in fiction, you know...
We've all seen the movie with Mel Gibson and that other 'Philadelphia Experiment' flick... We've all known about the four-color, totally make-believe and not-often truly marvelous (pun fully intended) adventures of Captain America and the cartoony Yvon of the Yukon - but what was entirely fabricated for these characters is FACT and perplexing reality for a now 65-year-old polish railwayman who fell into a coma amidst a very communist Poland one day, almost 20 years ago...
And he has just awakened from this coma now, in a much different Poland that exists nowadays, one that operates under democratic rules, including a market economy!
Life will never be the same for this railwayman - and it will take some adjusting!
Betcha that the railwayman will find it really easy to get used to...!
;)
See what the fuss is all about -
in the comments section!
posted by Luminous (\ô/) Luciano™ @ 9:04 PM
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Pole wakes from 19-year coma in democratic country
Sat Jun 2, 10:50 AM ET
WARSAW (Reuters) - A 65-year-old railwayman who fell into a coma following an accident in communist Poland regained consciousness 19 years later to find democracy and a market economy, Polish media reported on Saturday.
Wheelchair-bound Jan Grzebski, whom doctors had given only two or three years to live following his 1988 accident, credited his caring wife Gertruda with his revival.
"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24.
"For 19 years Mrs Grzebska did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections," Super Express reported Dr Boguslaw Poniatowski as saying.
"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski told TVN24, describing his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.
"Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."
Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital.
He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.
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May all the home boys find their own Gertruda... eh?
Life will be all the better for it!
;)
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