Man Talks After Ten Years

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1. Jonathan Webb says

   May 4, 2005 at 11:13 pm

   Maybe he didn’t have anything worthwhile to say.

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2. Jonathan Potter says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:02 am

   Maybe he was depressed about the disappearance of the Ivorybill.

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3. Dr. Alan C. Carver says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:20 am

   He has classic signs of hypoxic damage. It’s not hard to understand what happened to his brain in 1995. What is remarkable is to think that after 10 years of being like this the brain should show evidence of regeneration, because when cells don’t get oxygen for a prolonged period of time they die.

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4. Dr. Joseph Fins says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:22 am

   These are cases that we’re only finding out about sporadically. It really calls for an epidemiological study that can find out how many other patients like this are out there lingering in nursing homes.

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5. Katherine Manka says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:27 am

   It’s thrilling. Since Saturday, he’s just been talking.

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6. Rufus McCain says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:29 am

   Maybe he was pondering Emily Dickinson.

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7. Anthony Liberatore says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:34 am

   He stayed up till early morning talking with his boys and catching up on what they’ve been doing over the last several years.

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8. Gary Younge says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:41 am

   Donald Herbert, 43, went into a 10-week coma in 1995 after a burning roof buried him under debris and left him without air for several minutes. Since then he has been nearly blind and displayed little, if any, memory, ability to communicate or awareness of his surroundings.

   Then out of the blue, on Saturday, he woke up in the nursing home where he has been for the last seven years and said: “I want to talk to my wife,” sending the nurses at the care home in suburban Buffalo, New York, racing out to call his wife, Linda.

   But it was his youngest son, Nicholas, 13, who picked up the phone, the New York Times reported. “That can’t be,” Mr Herbert said. “He’s just a baby. He can’t talk.”

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9. Simon Manka says

   May 5, 2005 at 1:47 am

   Keep praying, please wait while we have him evaluated and respect his family’s privacy.

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10. Tom Burton says

    May 5, 2005 at 1:50 am

    If this is something that took place through divine intervention, I’m doing my best to help it along with a lot of prayer.

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11. Gene Warner says

    May 5, 2005 at 1:52 am

    Despite the family’s caution, speculation already began to surface Monday about Herbert’s possible recovery being used as a miracle in the bid to make Father Nelson Baker of Lackawanna a saint. There were unconfirmed reports that Herbert has at least one photo or other artifact of Father Baker in his room.

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