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Most who know me know I had a bad head injury about a dozen years ago
I mention it enough lol
I was not brain dead (that happened years later :) ).
But quality of life was AWFUL and I WANTED TO DIE for the first five years (and not just because obama was in office)
Agonizing pain, horrific sleep and a million other symptoms like blinding headaches just made me want it to end.
12 years later maybe 10 to 15 percent of the symptoms and/or severity of symptoms is left
I would have missed more than I can put here had I or someone else had the choice to end me!
Of if roving suicide vans like they have in some countries in W Europe were available!!
I KNOW in some weak moments I may have reached out to the van of death.
Doctors aren’t God. There’s only one and He is Great.
Let’s not double guess him too often.
My neurologist believes I got primary generalized epilepsy from a few concussions I received when I was a kid. The last time I felt like I had any energy was sophomore year of high school. That was 2000-2001.
There’s times when I don’t want to wake up.
One little bit of the story made the editor in me cringe:
“Today, Brandon Fuller is dead.”
While done for effect, linguistically it is terrible.
My mother n law had a brain aneurysm about month ago..she’s now in acute rehab but first few days after it happened were touch & go.
Pulmonary edema kicked in & they put her in a Rotobed for almost 3 days, I believe that bed saved her life..
She’s now talking, slowly walking, eating on her own.
She’s complaining about headaches & problems sleeping but doctors say common.
Truly a miracle that she’s on this quick of a road to recovery.
I now know way more than I ever wanted to know about brain aneurysms, brain injuries.
My son has brain cancer so some of this hits pretty close to home. You never forget days like the one where he was on life support and the doctors say he is the most critical patient in the hospital and has basically no chance for survival..
My son never gave up. We never gave up and the doctors never gave up. After two years of hell he is now home and has been cleared to drive again. Never give up.
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To everyone - do you have someone appointed - on paper - to make medical decisions for you, if you lose the capacity to make them. And did you include a list of do’s and don’ts if questions about life support measures arise. You need to prepare those things, to make things easier on your loved ones.
The subject of premature discharge from hospitals is much, much bigger than TBI patients.
I’ve live through the changes brought about by Medicare prospective payment, and they are on the whole a disgrace.
I see this as a private matter families have to figure out and most do the best they know how regarding life and death situations...Best to have a Medical Power of Attorney....
There is a huge difference between being brain dead and being comatose. Brain dead *is* dead. The article stated that the doctors had determined that Brandon was, in fact, brain dead. The article also says that Brandon’s blood pressure was unstable before his body ceased functioning; this is a consequence of losing brain function.
I once had the task of gathering all of the medical records of a murder victim to turn over to the medical examiner. I remember reading the death report. While the boy (17 years old) was not immediately brain dead, he had severe injury to the brain. The medical staff did everything they could to stabilize his blood pressure, and it would not stabilize. It was amazing just how much the nurses and doctors did to try to save him. But, as I mentioned, his brain was fatally injured. It was, in fact, swelling and protruding from the skull (he had been shot in the head). The doctors pulled the breathing tube after consulting with the mother. As the report said, his respirations ceased within seven short minutes. And then they called me to take him to the morgue. At least he wasn’t alone, since two other patients were already there.
A number of years ago I read about a young man who was declared “brain dead.” I believe they wanted to take his organs.
His dad got another opinion from a different neurologist, who said he was NOT “brain dead.” The young man made a full recovery.