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Firefighter awakens from decade of silence
May 4, 2005 - 11:41AM
Doctors were today trying to understand why a brain-damaged firefighter snapped to attention after nearly a decade of sitting silently in a wheelchair watching television at his nursing home.Firefighter Donald Herbert, 43, abruptly turned talkative and lucid to the delight of family and friends who visited him on Saturday after he asked staff at the facility where his wife, Linda, was.
A news conference on Mr Herbert's condition is scheduled for tomorrow, said JoAnn Cavanaugh, spokeswoman for the Catholic Health System, which operates the nursing home near Buffalo, New York, where Mr Herbert has lived for the past 7½ years.
Mr Herbert spent 14 hours chatting and catching up on news about his wife, four sons, friends and former firefighting colleagues. He then went into a deep sleep for 30 hours.
Mr Herbert has maintained an improved condition but not to the extent of Saturday's stunning revival, Ms Cavanaugh said.
Buried under flaming debris while searching a Buffalo apartment building in December 1995, Mr Herbert went without oxygen for about six minutes before being rescuedHe lapsed into a coma for more than two months.
When he came out of it, he had lost his sight, his speech was halting and slurred, and he did not recognise loved ones.
"We can tell you he did recognise several family members and friends and did call them by name," his uncle, Simon Manka, said in a handwritten statement issued on behalf of the family.
Reuters
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/05/04/1115092539529.html
WAY TO GO BUFFALO FIREFIGHTER
Firefighter awakens from decade of silence
May 4, 2005 - 11:41AM
Doctors were today trying to understand why a brain-damaged firefighter snapped to attention after nearly a decade of sitting silently in a wheelchair watching television at his nursing home.Firefighter Donald Herbert, 43, abruptly turned talkative and lucid to the delight of family and friends who visited him on Saturday after he asked staff at the facility where his wife, Linda, was.
A news conference on Mr Herbert's condition is scheduled for tomorrow, said JoAnn Cavanaugh, spokeswoman for the Catholic Health System, which operates the nursing home near Buffalo, New York, where Mr Herbert has lived for the past 7½ years.
Mr Herbert spent 14 hours chatting and catching up on news about his wife, four sons, friends and former firefighting colleagues. He then went into a deep sleep for 30 hours.
Mr Herbert has maintained an improved condition but not to the extent of Saturday's stunning revival, Ms Cavanaugh said.
Buried under flaming debris while searching a Buffalo apartment building in December 1995, Mr Herbert went without oxygen for about six minutes before being rescuedHe lapsed into a coma for more than two months.
When he came out of it, he had lost his sight, his speech was halting and slurred, and he did not recognise loved ones.
"We can tell you he did recognise several family members and friends and did call them by name," his uncle, Simon Manka, said in a handwritten statement issued on behalf of the family.
Reuters
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/05/04/1115092539529.html
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