Jan Grzebski

Jan Grzebski (1942 – 12 December 2008)^[1] was a Polish railroad worker who fell into a coma in 1988 and woke up in 2007. He actually stayed in a coma for four years but only fully recovered 19 years after.^[2]

Biography

Grzebski was left in a coma after being hit by a train in 1988.^[3] He began to wake from his coma in 1992.^[4] Doctors had not expected him to survive, let alone emerge from the coma. He credited his survival to his wife, Gertruda Grzebska, who cared and prayed for him. He was a father of four at the time of the accident. While disabled he gained eleven grandchildren. In an interview on 1 June 2007 with the Polish news channel TVN 24, Grzebski described his recollections of the communist system's economic collapse. "When my family spoke to me, I could actually hear them but I could not talk back. I could not send them a signal to tell them that I was still alive." He died in 2008.

See also

• List of people who awoke from a coma
• Good Bye Lenin!, a 2003 German film featuring a similar case.

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