If your body can't move, but your brain is still conscious, can see, hear, and perceive everything around you, are you willing to continue to live? What is the difference between such a state and the living dead, it is estimated that most people cannot persist. There was a young American boy, Martin Pistorius, who was in this situation at the age of 12. After falling ill, he was not only abused by the nurse, but his mother also said something like "to die" to him. But Martin insisted on surviving, and finally got married and had children.
"Tomorrow and accidents, I don't know which one will arrive first", the phrase martin is perfectly suitable. In 1988, 12-year-old Martin Jr. went home for dinner as usual after school. Because of the discomfort in his throat, his mother gave him several common pills. Little Martin slept and the whole world changed. He was drowsy and uncontrollably drooling, runny nose, memory loss, and his mother realized that something was wrong, so she took the child to visit a famous doctor.
After running to many hospitals, Martin Jr. was eventually diagnosed with "degenerative neurological disorders." People with this disease will gradually lose control of the body and eventually die due to cerebral stem vascular lesions. At this time, it is inconvenient for Little Martin to walk, he can still talk, but he needs his parents to push a wheelchair when he goes out. So can this disease be treated? The first disease is rare, and the cure is even less.
At first, Martin's parents refused to give up, Martin was still so young, his life could not be fixed at the age of 12. Martin's parents took him everywhere to see a doctor and almost spent the family's savings, but Martin Jr. did not get better, and his condition became more and more serious. Martin's parents were about to collapse, and her mother's heart was broken, and she couldn't face the semi-paralyzed little Martin. Father had to quit his job to take care of little Martin. At this time, little Martin gradually lost consciousness, and did not know that the once happy family was in a mess.
Later, Martin's parents simply gave up treatment for Little Martin and threw him into a nursing home. In fact, this pair of parents is good enough for the child, if the elderly are sick, will the son be willing to resign to take care of him? It's hard. Martin went to a nursing home and Mom was much better off. She didn't have to face her paralyzed son, she didn't have to blame herself for not taking care of the child. My father was a promising engineer, but now he had to find a job.
Martin just passed out like this for the past 4 years, and things took a turn for the better. Just as he didn't know why he was sick, at the age of 16, Martin didn't know why he suddenly woke up. Martin only regained consciousness, but he did not regain control of his body, he could not even control his expression. No one knew that Martin had woken up and treated him like a dead creature, uncaring. Martin shouted "Help me, I woke up." In fact, he couldn't even make a sound, and he had to listen to these words for himself.
Martin wakes up to find that the whole world has changed. His parents quarreled over him every day, even to the point of divorce. Younger siblings live in quarrels, no one cares about them, and their grades are getting worse and worse. What made Martin most sad was that his mother once cried and said to him, "Why don't you die, we can only be relieved when you die." Later, Mom knew that Martin could hear the words that hurt him, and she regretted it and left tears in pain. Martin, on the other hand, understood.
When Martin was at home, his parents were arguing and his mother was in bad spirits, and even so, he didn't want to go to a nursing home. Some elderly people were exposed, drinking urine in nursing homes, and being beaten by nursing workers. For Martin, the condition of these old people is good, at least they can say that Martin suffered a series of inhuman torture in the nursing home, he could not ask for help from others, he could only suffer in silence.
The nursing home nurses knew that Martin could not move or speak, so they poured all the anger they received at work on Martin, and no one would know anyway. While eating, the nurse stabbed Martin directly in the throat, causing him to ghee. The meal spat out, and the nurse punched Martin again. The caregiver also liked to play the game of slaps, and whoever hit Martin the loudest won. Of course, if Martin's parents came to visit, they would stop beating them so they wouldn't be seen.
Luckily, 25-year-old Martin met a therapist named Veena. She noticed Martin's strange appearance and guessed that Martin had woken up. So Martin's parents took him to the research room, and the scientists installed a "conscious language conversion system" for Martin. Martin was finally able to make a sound, the computer simulated his voice, and his first words were "Mommy and Daddy, Merry Christmas." ”
With the vocal system, Martin was able to express himself, his treatment was on track, and his physical condition was getting better and better. At the age of 26, Martin taught himself to college and married his wife. He still couldn't speak and had to walk in a wheelchair, but it was much better. Martin wrote his story in The Aphasia, and the public learned that he had encountered such a miraculous thing.