Pole Wakes up from 19-Year Coma

World | June 3, 2007, Sunday // 00:00

A Polish man has woken up from a 19-year coma, Polish TV reports.

Railway worker Jan Grzebski, 65, fell into a coma after he was hit by a train in 1988.

"Now I see people on the streets with mobile phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin," he told Polish television.

"It was Gertruda that saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told news channel TVN24 of his recovery, referring to his caring wife.
Mrs Grzebski is reported to have moved her husband every hour to prevent bed sores.

"I cried a lot, and I prayed a lot," she said on Polsat television.

"Those who came to see us kept asking: 'When is he going to die?' But he's not dead."

When Mr Grzebski had his accident Poland was still ruled by its last communist leader, Wojciech Jaruzelski.

"When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol queues were everywhere," Grzebski said.

"What amazes me today is all these people who walk around with their mobile phones and never stop moaning," said Grzebski. "I've got nothing to complain about."

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