There is Hope

So many people have sent us information about medical breakthroughs for people in comas and persistent vegetative states, that we want to share this HOPE with others. If you would like to add a site below, please email them to us and mark the subject "Medical News."

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The Testimony you have to read: http://www.katesjourney.com/041905_testimony.html

Once in Coma, Girl May Testify Against Alleged Attacker - Doctors Said Haleigh Poutre Would Never Recover

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4375206&page=1

The Perilous Vegetative State, Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons: http://www.jpands.org/vol10no2/huntoon.pdf

Anoxic Injury Network

Boy in “Hopeless” Vegetative State Awakens and Steadily Improves

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06101001.html

Families rejoice over amazing recoveries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7994497/

Woman Diagnosed as "Brain Dead" Walks and Talks after Awakening

http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2008/feb/08021508.html

High rate of misdiagnosis in patients in an acute vegetative state http://www.news-medical.net/?id=26672

Misdiagnosis of the vegetative state: retrospective study in a rehabilitation unit

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/313/7048/13

Woman who awoke from coma is on 'Good Morning America'

February 13, 2008 http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=498155

The 65-year-old Lake Elmo woman who cheated death when she woke up from a coma is now making national news with her story.

Raleane (Rae) Kupferschmidt is to appear on the "Good Morning America" TV show today about 8 a.m., said her husband, Alan Kupferschmidt. The show airs from 7 a.m. to 9 a.m. weekdays on KSTP-TV, Channel 5 (ABC).

Last month, Kupferschmidt was brought to the hospital, where doctors discovered she had suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage. The family prepared for her funeral.

But as families and friends said goodbye to her as she lay in a coma, Kupferschmidt unexpectedly began to wake up. A surgery removed the blood clot and she has steadily improved.

Local television and print media pounced on the "miracle" recovery story this week. A crew from "Good Morning America" filmed Kupferschmidt as she left the hospital Wednesday and followed her home for the story that is scheduled to air today on ABC.

"NBC called and they wanted to fly her out to New York to do a story,'' Alan Kupferschmidt said. "But I said no. We're wearing her out. She's in recovery."

The media frenzy has been somewhat exciting for the family, but Alan Kupferschmidt said they likely won't miss it when it's gone. "We're just so glad that she's back."

The Amber Satterwhite Story - HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen) Therapy

http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/1896.article

What was at stake was whether they should continue to have hope their 14-year-old daughter could ever wake from what doctors had called a "persistent vegetative state."

Within hours the hospital workers had intubated and prepared Amber for travel to a larger hospital in Columbia, S.C. It was determined there that she had an anoxic brain injury caused by a lack of oxygen to the brain as a result of the seizures.

Another doctor scoffed at the notion of rehabilitation and told Melody, "[Amber] is in a vegetative state. There is no hope for her—no help for her in a rehab hospital. There is no way."

Here is a video of her case study using HBOT. Amber was diagnosed PVS.

http://www.oceanhbo.com/client/studies/studies.htm

Other HBOT - PVS Recovery Stories:

http://www.hbot4u.com/chaver.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/cody.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/connell.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/erik.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/jozee.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/matthew.html

http://www.hbot4u.com/rudy.html

http://www.hbot.com/test_sidath.html

The Great Patricia White Bull Story: - It's important to note that Bull had anoxic brain injury (Lack of Oxygen to the brain)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/591847.stm

"She was resuscitated but suffered brain damage from lack of oxygen."

Marsi Tabak - Another great story of caring and commitment - http://www.aish.com/spirituality/odysseys/Carrots_Dont_Cry.asp

"Doctors said that Marsi Tabak would remain in a persistent vegetative state for the rest of her life. With tireless dedication and a warehouse of faith, her husband proved them wrong."

"Marsi learned to communicate with eye blinks. One of the first words she spelled on her own was "KAFKA."

She has cared fro her brain damaged daughter for nearly 16 years.

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/justinepesicka -

History of a Recent Breakthrough

http://www.myspace.com/globalischemia

Woman Wakes After 16 Years

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/591847.stm

Carrots Don't Cry

http://www.aish.com/spirituality/odysseys/Carrots_Dont_Cry.asp

Amber's story: Joy on Christmas Eve

http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/1896.article

Possible medical breakthrough for people in irreversible comas: