"It was Gertruda who saved me, and I'll never forget it," Grzebski told a Polish news channel. "When I went into a coma there was only tea and vinegar in the shops, meat was rationed and huge petrol lines were everywhere. Now I see people on the streets with cell phones and there are so many goods in the shops it makes my head spin."
Doctor Boguslaw Poniatowski said, "For 19 years Mrs. Grzebski did the job of an experienced intensive care team, changing her comatose husband's position every hour to prevent bed-sore infections."
Grzebski awoke to find his four children had all married and produced 11 grandchildren during his years in hospital. He said he vaguely recalled the family gatherings he was taken to while in a coma and his wife and children trying to communicate with him.
