PERMANENT, MEANING TEMPORARY:

Boy in “Hopeless” Vegetative State Awakens and Steadily Improves (Hilary White, October 10, 2006, LifeSiteNews.com)

A young boy, who had previously been diagnosed as being in a “permanent vegetative state,” has awakened from a 22 month-long coma and is breathing on his own. [...]

Despite the doctors’ gloomy prognosis, eleven year-old Devon [Rivers] is now being prepared for occupational therapy to help him re-learn motor skills and is able to play with his siblings. Doctors cannot explain the reason either for his unexpected awakening or for his steady recovery. [...]

Carla Rivers said, “Devon may make a full recovery or what we see today may be what we get…God's plan is greater than ours. There's nothing we can do to force it any sooner or hold it back,” she said.