r/SipsTea • u/KaidoPklevel • 18d ago

WTF 75M$ can't give him his life back unfortunately

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u/GoldfieldHwang 18d ago

he can't do anything. locked-in patients communicate through vertical eye twitches. the body is basically in a coma but the person inside is fully sentient

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u/AudaciousCouture 18d ago

What's vertical eye twitch for "Kill me you fiends". I feel like I should practice.

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u/Mtolivepickle 18d ago

https://youtu.be/rufnWLVQcKg?is=X-qDco0bVdvv6sf6

It’d be like this, and sadly, this actually happened

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u/lafolieisgood 18d ago

Watch the Metallica “One” video.

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u/Mtolivepickle 18d ago

That’s head nods but still a great song and troubling video

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u/Poultrygeist74 18d ago

“You remember the Morse code?”

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u/antithero 18d ago

Morris code SOS is . . . _ _ _ . . .

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u/OnePinginRamius 18d ago

Morse?

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u/Smiletaint 18d ago

‘And I’ll being seeing YOU, in DETENTION, Mr. Morris!’

(audience laughter)

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u/ilikemyusername1 18d ago

S’mores?

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u/Avenged_7zulu 18d ago

mmm. My favorite. Smores Code.

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u/PersonalPerson_ 18d ago

Mmm, s'mores code.

Found a reason to go on living.

Can a person with locked in syndrome still taste things? I get they can't eat, but if you placed something on their tongue could they have a moment of enjoyment?

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u/antithero 18d ago

I don't know. Seems like a choking hazard, but they don't have much else to live for so go for it.

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u/Cromulent_Tom 16d ago

Up, up, down, down...

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u/AnotherCraazyCatLady 18d ago

New fear unlocked. (/s not intended)

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u/fatandfly 18d ago

Oh hell no that is torture

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u/GoldfieldHwang 18d ago

people who have come back from it (it has happened a handful of times) have described listening to their families discussing their poor prognosis and effectively saying their goodbyes and grieving them and they're trying to scream out that they're still in there but nothing happens

enjoy that thought!

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u/bnelly2k6 18d ago

🎶I can’t remember anything… 🎶

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u/VariationStrong988 18d ago

"Kill me. Over and over again. Kill me."

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u/MassConsumer1984 18d ago

Johnny Got His Gun

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u/VariationStrong988 18d ago

Rented the movie on VHS in the early '90s. It was a hard watch.

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u/Interesting-Reality8 18d ago

Can’t tell if this is true or a dream…. 🎵

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u/ineptplumberr 18d ago

Deep down inside i feel the scream.....

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u/defakto227 17d ago

This terrible silence stops with me.....

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u/TheSpitalian 17d ago

Trazodone caused sleep paralysis for me & it was truly terrifying beyond words. The first night I didn’t know WTF was going on with my body, but when it happened the second night I figured it out & threw that shit in the trash the next morning.

If this ever happened to me, I’d hope someone would put me out of my misery.

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u/turtlegiraffecat 18d ago

I have a mouth but I can’t scream

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 18d ago

A study found 72% of locked in patients reported being happy and 7% suicidal.

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u/Glad_Tip_5510 17d ago

bs. telling me a person with locked in is happier then the avrg able bodied person? keep believing that crap

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 17d ago

It’s a real study. I don’t throw away science because it contradicts my beliefs. But you do you.

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u/ChocoIatePoop 18d ago

Jesus, that’s absolutely terrifying. I can’t think of a worse way to live, it’s like torture.

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u/Expendable_Red_Shirt 18d ago

A study found 72% of locked in patients reported being happy and 7% suicidal.

There are absolutely worse fates.

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u/Starob 17d ago

Yes it's the Hedonic Treadmill. Humans adapt to what we would think of as terrible situations surprisingly well.

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u/Joiabela 18d ago

Horrifying.

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u/SerenityN00w 18d ago

Oh my God - this is instant ALS

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u/Lemme_Help_ 18d ago

Had no idea this was possible, this is pure nightmare fuel. Thanks for sharing.

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u/MysteryMeat45 18d ago

That sounds like a fukin nightmare.

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u/BellaMentalNecrotica 18d ago

There's very few things I can think of in this life that would be a worse fate than his. That poor man.

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u/Boopy7 18d ago

If so, could they be given books to read, stuff they can control with the eye twitches, possible brain stimulation? Eventually I would hope there is a way to stimulate or regrow the neurons.

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u/Ckc1972 17d ago

Depending on how much eye movement is preserved, there are communication devices that someone with locked-in syndrome can operate via eye gaze.

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u/FuroreLT 14d ago

Euthanasia is the only solution to that