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conulyThanks... I think.
The man's doctors think that locked-in syndrome may be much more common than anybody realizes, which is pretty horrific.
Now, some people are saying "God, if that happens to me I hope they pull the plug", but I find it interesting that the person this did happen to - who spent half his life with everybody assuming he was comatose! - isn't saying "Kill me now" or "I wish I'd died back then" but "Hey, now that you all know I'm alive, I want to live my life again!" He's got far more experience with this than I do, so I'm going to go ahead and assume there's a lesson in those words.
With that in mind, I'm teaching myself Morse Code right now*, and I hope people think to try it with me (or even "one if a yes, two if a no") if this fate should ever befall me. It's easy to say now "Gosh, that sucks, I'd hate to live like that", but when push comes to shove I'd really hate to change my mind right as my loving family, trying to respect my wishes, comes along and kills me. That'd really suck. Although that sort of dramatic irony would at least be darkly funny... you know, from a distance.
Morse Code. It's the wave of the future. And if, god forbid, you all think I'm comatose - please, somebody suggest to the doctor that I might not be! (Also? Even if I can't even communicate, I'd appreciate volunteers to read to me and play some nice classic fannish works on TV for me. Just in case.)
*Remember how in Cheaper By the Dozen the author describes their father's mnemonic for learning Morse Code? Did the whole mnemonic ever get written out anywhere?
The man's doctors think that locked-in syndrome may be much more common than anybody realizes, which is pretty horrific.
Now, some people are saying "God, if that happens to me I hope they pull the plug", but I find it interesting that the person this did happen to - who spent half his life with everybody assuming he was comatose! - isn't saying "Kill me now" or "I wish I'd died back then" but "Hey, now that you all know I'm alive, I want to live my life again!" He's got far more experience with this than I do, so I'm going to go ahead and assume there's a lesson in those words.
With that in mind, I'm teaching myself Morse Code right now*, and I hope people think to try it with me (or even "one if a yes, two if a no") if this fate should ever befall me. It's easy to say now "Gosh, that sucks, I'd hate to live like that", but when push comes to shove I'd really hate to change my mind right as my loving family, trying to respect my wishes, comes along and kills me. That'd really suck. Although that sort of dramatic irony would at least be darkly funny... you know, from a distance.
Morse Code. It's the wave of the future. And if, god forbid, you all think I'm comatose - please, somebody suggest to the doctor that I might not be! (Also? Even if I can't even communicate, I'd appreciate volunteers to read to me and play some nice classic fannish works on TV for me. Just in case.)
*Remember how in Cheaper By the Dozen the author describes their father's mnemonic for learning Morse Code? Did the whole mnemonic ever get written out anywhere?
