A Belgian man who doctors thought was in a coma for 23 years was conscious all along, it has been revealed.
Medical staff believed Rom Houben had sunk irretrievably into a coma after he was injured in a car crash in 1983. [. . . .]
He has also said that he felt powerless as doctors and nurses tried to speak to him before giving up hope, and that he “dreamt the time away” as the years passed.
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