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."
Nothing, nothing raises the human condition like unfettered capitalism. I can only imagine the joy in this man's heart after waking up to find his country free and prosperous, after being under the oppressive, stifeling boot of communism. Cool!
Polish shoppers enjoying the fruits (and vegetables) of capitalism.
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Wait 'til he gets his 19 year hospital bill. Boy will he enjoy capitalism at that point.
Yeah, I wonder how they handle that. Does his insurance pay for 6,935 days of care?
After he met his $500 major medical deductible, they paid the first $100,000. He curently owes the Prague Community and Teaching Hospital ( a member of the Healthsouth chain) $ 2,369,087,975. I guess Richard isn't a flight risk at all - is he?
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