Massive Stroke Dept: And every day his two sons, Omri and Gilad, take turns visiting, according to Calgary Herald. So, for now, the 82-year-old stays in his hospital room, an armed guard at the door. Sharon is given physiotherapy and his position shifted throughout the day to ensure he does not develop bedsores -- the condition, along with pneumonia, that most often leads to fatal complications in elderly patients, like Sharon, who lie in a vegetative state and in a private room on the second floor of a rectangular hospital building of milky coloured stone surrounded by thick rosemary bushes, a comatose Ariel Sharon lies motionless. Kept alive through a feeding tube, the former prime minister of Israel continues to open his eyes, and for a few hours a day he is propped up to "watch" television that no one knows whether he can really see or hear. Music is often on in the hope that the melodies he adored might still reach him. His bed is surrounded by photos of his grandchildren. A vase full of wildflowers that were his late wife's favourites are brought from the garden of his cattle ranch. Five years after the massive stroke that felled their father, Omri and Gilad want to bring him back to this ranch and there have been a number of trial visits, but it's still not clear whether the move would compromise his care. As
reported in the news.
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