Green Day = Good
From
the BBC comes this heartening story:
Green Day awakens boy from coma
Music fan Corey George was unconscious for two weeks on a life support machine after being knocked down by a car on his ninth birthday.
Then his mother Tina played him a CD by his favorite punk-pop band, Green Day.
Less than an hour after hearing the album, American Idiot, he had opened his eyes and was able to move his fingers and toes.
Four days later Corey, from the village of Aberaman in Aberdare, south Wales, was well enough to be moved out of intensive care and into a high-dependency unit.
And the Band's response to this story:
The American band is currently touring in Japan, but band members have sent a get well message and have arranged for a pack of Green Day merchandise, including CDs and t-shirts, to be delivered.
"The boys are incredibly pleased that one of their tracks has brought Corey out of his coma," said a spokeswoman.
Very cool -- people who are in comas are not necessarily brain dead, their minds are just uncoupled from their bodies and this can change with the proper stimulus. They are awake, they need to want to return.
Posted by DaveH at March 10, 2005 10:38 PM