Caption: John Sullivan and his mother, Marcia, when we visited them in November, 1985.AGAINST ALL ODDS, A HOPE THAT WILL NOT DIEMany things have changed in the life of John Sullivan since Susan Ager told his story in our Dec. 15, 1985, issue. The Marlette teenager had been comatose 153 days at the time of the story - a rigid, contorted figure lying on a hospital bed in what had once been the Sullivan's living room. The other furniture had been moved; the room had become a shrine to the family's fervent wish for and belief in the recover of a 17- ?..breathing oxygen, through a ventilator and kept immobile by Pavulon, a paralytic drug that affects the central nervous system."They told us four times that he wasn't going to make it, that it was just a matter of time," says Dick Sullivan. At one point, John's heart stopped beating: he had no blood pressure. The doctor called the..
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