Help Me Find This Poem/text

[poncho3000]

Key facts:
-about man in coma
-written in prose and 1st person
-description of nurses perfume
-hears doctors debating whether or not to turn life support of

Any suggestions will help please!! :)

[Peter Pedant]

try here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locked-in_syndrome

and work your way through the list of patients

I try locked in personal account and got a lot about banks excluding their customers
and locked in personal diary and got alot about secret diary keeping and padlocks

[Peter Pedant]

it could be The diving bell and the butterfly - le scaphandre et le Papillon
was it in French ?

[pixie373]

It's on an episode of House, if that's any help?

[Prudie]

Oh yes you're right pixie, House was the only one who thought the man was still conscious, that's all I can remember

[Peter Pedant]

-hears doctors debating whether or not to turn life support of

This is reported by Prof John Robinson ( in himself ) following a cardiac event in Birmingham in 1978. and I think is quite common.
The only is issue (as with him) is that you only turn off life support in dead people and the condition of locked in is completely different to brain-dead. It is likely if it were true that the doctors were discussing another patient.

[Zacs-Master]

Sounds like Pink Floyd to me. Is there anybody in there?......

[pixie373]

PP, i think it can be very difficult to tell with someone locked-in. There aren't the responses that you usually check for, reaction to pain, etc.
There are so many books with this type of scenario, I'm not sure which you want.
yes, prudie, House realised he was conscious, but all the other doctors thought there was no hope and wanted to turn off the life -support. Scary.

[poncho3000]

Sounds familiar with thanks :)