19 வருட கோமாவிலிருந்து மீண்டெழுந்த போலந்துக்காரரின் அதிர்ச்சி

கம்யூனிஸ்ட் போலந்தில் ஒரு ரயில்வே ஊழியர் விபத்தில் கோமாவுக்கு சென்றார்.
19 வருடங்கள் கழித்து மீண்டும் சுய நினைவு பெற்றிருக்கிறார்.

19 வருடங்களுக்கு முன்னர் கம்யூனிஸ்ட் போலந்தில் எல்லா பொருட்களுக்கும் கியூ இருந்ததை ஞாபகத்தில் வைத்திருக்கும் இவர், போலந்தில் தற்போது அரசியல் பொருளாதார ஜனநாயகத்தால் எல்லா பொருட்களும் கிடைப்பதையும் எல்லோரும் செல்போன் வைத்திருப்பதையும் ஆச்சரியமாக பார்க்கிறார்.

Democracy stuns Polish coma man
POSTED: 11:08 a.m. EDT, June 2, 2007

Story Highlights• Polish railway worker wakes after 19 year coma
• Surprised to find communism is over in East European country
• Remembers country of rationing and lines at gas stations

WARSAW, Poland (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 lines 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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