WOW!
I wonder what the mechanism is. Completely amazing.

At 07:24 AM 9/12/2006, you wrote:
>This is an amazing story.  Even though it's long, make sure you read the
>whole thing.
>
>Rayna
>
>"We have always been told there is no recovery from persistent
>vegetative state - doctors can only make a sufferer's last days as
>painless as possible. But is that really the truth? Across three
>continents, severely brain-damaged patients are awake and talking after
>taking ... a sleeping pill. And no one is more baffled than the GP who
>made the breakthrough. Steve Boggan witnesses these 'strange and
>wonderful' rebirths"
>
>http://www.guardian.co.uk/medicine/story/0,,1870279,00.html
>
>
>"Heidi Greven, who is now 21, was starved of oxygen to her brain at
>birth. Her mother, Babs, says she used to sit in silence, locked inside
>her own head, never communicating and looking terribly unhappy. When I
>meet Heidi, she is walking around, curious about everything. She
>examines the shorthand in my notebook. Although too shy to speak (she
>will always be brain damaged), she jokes with Nel. At home, she now
>chats with her parents.
>
>"I'll never forget the first time she was given the medication," says
>Babs. "It was in July 2002. After 10 to 15 minutes it was like a curtain
>being lifted from her eyes. I couldn't believe it. She suddenly started
>looking around and fiddling with magazines. Then she went outside the
>door and looked into the other rooms in the surgery. She found a
>portable radio and put it up to her shoulder and began listening to it.
>Beforehand, she would just sit there doing nothing."
>
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