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Annie Shapiro (1913–2003) was a Canadian apron shop owner who was in a coma for 29 years because of a massive stroke and suddenly awakened in 1992. After the patients in the true story Awakenings, Shapiro spent the longest time in a coma-like state before waking up. Her story inspired the 1998 movie Forever Love. [4] Louis Viljoen ~1970 1994
Sharon Stone is sharing how she overcame her 2001 near-fatal stroke and brain hemorrhage, which left her with a “1% chance of survival.” “I walked out of that hospital, 18% of my body mass ...
Paul Richard Alexander (January 30, 1946 – March 11, 2024) was an American paralytic polio survivor, lawyer and author. He contracted polio in 1952 at the age of six and spent the vast majority of his life in an iron lung for more than 70 years.
Martha Ann Lillard (born June 8, 1948) is an American polio survivor who lives in an iron lung. After Paul Alexander 's death, she became the last known person to still live in an iron lung. She contracted polio in 1953, when she was five years old.
Aly opened up on the Call Her Daddy podcast about being hospitalized twice for “stroke-like symptoms” tied to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from being one of Nassar’s victims.
Sitting in a hospital bed after hours of surgery on both of his broken legs, Jeremi Sensky began putting together the pieces of a life that was shattered on New Year's Day. The 51-year-old ...
A 33-year-old stroke survivor recalls the first symptoms he almost ignored. He felt dizzy and lightheaded during a workout before losing some vision and slurring his words.
Canessa was portrayed by Josh Hamilton in the 1993 feature film Alive, directed by Frank Marshall and based on Piers Paul Read's 1974 non-fiction book Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. [21] In 2023 he was portrayed by Matías Recalt in the survival thriller film Society of the Snow directed by J. A. Bayona and based on the book by Pablo ...