“I screamed, but there was nothing to hear. I became a witness to my own suffering as doctors and nurses tried to speak with me until they gave up all hope. … I shall never forget the day when they discovered what was truly wrong with me — it was my second birth. All that time I just literally dreamed of a better life. Frustration is too small a word to describe what I felt… I want to read, talk with my friends via the computer and enjoy my life now that people know I am not dead.”
— Belgian car crash victim Rom Houbens, 46, who was misdiagnosed as comatose for 23 years before high-tech scans determined that he was paralyzed but fully conscious.
Source – Good Morning Silicon Valley