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Jan Grzebski (1942 - December 12, 20081) is a former Polish railroad worker who fell into a coma in 1991. Although widely reported as a delayed effect of being hit in the head by a train's hinged car side, the coma was actually the result of a 5 centimeter brain tumor. Over time, Grzebski's aging caused the tumor to shrink enough to relieve pressure on his brain stem, and he eventually regained full consciousness. Grzebski began to wake from his coma in 2006. Doctors had not expected Grzebski to survive, let alone emerge from the coma. He credits his survival to his wife, Gertruda Grzebska, who cared and prayed for him. Grzebski was a father of four at the time of the accident. He now plans to meet his 11 grandchildren. In an interview on June 1, 2007, with the Polish news channel TVN 24, wheelchair-bound Grzebski described his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse.
| “ | When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere. Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin. |
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Rheumatologust Joanna Hensel, who served as the local hospital's director of medical care in Grzebski's hometown of Dzialdowo, Poland, has emerged as a skeptic of Jan's miraculous story.
He was featured in the Ripley's Believe It or Not! comic strip for August 27, 2007.
See also
- Good Bye Lenin!, a 2003 German film featuring a similar case.
References
- Cud, obudził się po 19 latach śpiączki Radio Zet
- Pole wakes up from 19-year coma BBC News
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