There was a kid who lived to 7 years old as a normal kid. Then he got hit by a car.
He was then in a coma, but his coma was different. His eyes were open. He couldn't move, he couldn't speak. He was just a living corpse essentially.
He was just kept like that. For 30 some years until he was in his early 40s. Then, without explaination, he came out of it.
His mom was watching jeapardy, and she randomly hears him answer the tv "Who is Bill Gates?" which caused her to scream and run out of the room. Which caused him to scream, because he didn't know what was happening.
Eventually his mom came back in the room, and they were both surprised he was out of his coma.
Except here's the thing, his coma really was different. He was awake the whole 30+ years. He was aware of every single thing around him. One of the first things he said after all the calamity died down was "I miss ralph."
And ralph was a dog the family got when he was 15, already in his coma, and died a few years earlier. He never once got to pet this dog, who would curl up with him everyday. Ralph would stick his face into his armpit and russle his arm over him. And then just lay there all night.
His mom was surprised that he even knew ralph.
And the reason this story stuck with me, was he told his mom "there was a day, that sticks out in my mind. It will haunt me to the day I day. I've had nightmares countless times about this moment. It was a few years after my accident, and you came into the living room, saw me, and said why won't you just die already? You're making everyones life miserable!" Then she walked out of the room.
When he told her that, she began crying, and appologizing. She didn't remember saying that, but he never stopped thinking about it for 30+ years.
She obviously still loved her son. She cared for him the whole time. But it's juat that little moment of weakness you say the worst thing.
Anyways, back to jeapordy. When he answered the answer about bill gates, he didn't think anything different was happening. Everynight they watched jeapordy, and every night he'd answer......except it was in his own head. This time he said it out loud.
