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Man Trapped in Coma for 12 Years Reveals Shocking Details When He Woke Up
Posted by Lolade on Wed 23rd Sep, 2015 - tori.ngMartin Pistorius who was trapped inside his lifeless body from the age of 12 after being struck down with meningitis has revealed what happened when he was in coma.
Martin Pistoriuswho was in a coma for 12years
Martin Pistorius slipped into the coma aged 12 and could not move, communicate or do anything for himself for 12 years.
The South African man was diagnosed with a debilitating form of meningitis in the late 1980s and was left unable to move, speak or even make eye contact.
His parents, Rodney and Joan Pistorius, were left to do everything for him - from bathing and feeding to turning him in bed and were advised he would soon die.
It was such a tough life that Joan told NPR.org that she remembers looking at Martin one day and saying: "I hope you die."
And yet all the time – from the age of 14 or 15 – Martin, now 39, was awake.
Martin told NPR: "I was there, not from the very beginning, but about two years into my vegetative state I began to wake up. I was aware of everything, just like any normal person.
"Everyone was so used to me not being there that they didn't notice when I began to be present again.
"The stark reality hit me that I was going to spend the rest of my life like that – totally alone."
Martin said all he could do was "think" – and his thoughts became increasingly darker as time went on.
So he decided to block it out and stop thinking.
He said: "You simply exist. It's a very dark place to find yourself because, in a sense, you are allowing yourself to vanish."
Martin's brain began functioning fully, and his body followed at the age of 24.
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