Hat tip: www.rushlimbaugh.comORCHARD PARK, N.Y. (AP) — Nearly 9 1/2 years after a firefighter was left brain-damaged and mostly mute during a 1995 roof collapse, he did something that shocked his family and doctors: He asked for his wife.
Staff members of the nursing home where Donald Herbert has lived for more than seven years raced to get Linda Herbert on the telephone. (Related video: New York firefighter)
It was the first of many conversations the patient had with his wife, four sons and other family and friends Saturday during a 14-hour stretch, Herbert's uncle Simon Manka said.
"How long have I been away?" Herbert asked...
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Tuesday, May 03, 2005
USATODAY.com - 10 years after brain damage, firefighter astounds doctors
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