One woman's passionate and articulate testament to the world that she is, indisputably, alivemore than thirty years ago, Julia Tavalaro woke up from a coma to find herself almost completely paralyzed by two strokes that ...One woman's passionate and articulate testament to the world that she is, indisputably, alivemore than thirty years ago, Julia Tavalaro woke up from a coma to find herself almost completely paralyzed by two strokes that had also left her unable to speak. Suddenly, just thirty-two years old, she was a prisoner in her own body and a victim of the ignorant and cruel treatment of hospital workers who neither noticed nor cared that the "Vegetable" They changed and fed every day was actually a bright and emotional woman.