Posted on 01/14/2019 2:20:58 PM PST by kathsua
Exactly what happened with my mom last year. They sent her to hospice though and withheld sustenance. My dad and I slipped her ice chips and sweet tea and she recovered.
In the last 16 months my son has spent 249 days in the hospital. Probably another hundred trips for chemo, radiation, therapy, clinic visits etc. Six times in the ICU from a few days to a few weeks. Three times they came out and said he is the most critical patient in the hospital and most likely wouldn’t make it.
His last trip to the hospital started right after Labor Day. He went in for a combo chemo but infections and various problems arose. He left us mentally for several months. He would respond with a simple answer but there was nothing there. Didn’t want to eat. Finally about mid December he started coming around. He came home right before Christmas and is now eating and able to walk on his own and get around just fine. His voice has returned and can carry a conversation just fine.
Thursday we will go to find out if he is strong enough for a stem cell transplant.
The doctors have been surprised many times. I believe one of the main factors for his survival thus far is that he just wants to live. When they asked him in August if he wanted to continue with various treatments he said he just wanted to live so do what has to be done.
LOL - had a fella in our church went into a coma at about 50, after a year his wife wanted to pull the plug, kids said no, big family fight - he woke up a week later.
The expression “saved by the bell” has nothing to do with escaping defeat in a round of boxing. People used to be so afraid of being buried alive, they rigged up a device that detected breathing motion in a buried ‘corpse,’ and it rang a bell located above ground on the tombstone. I don’t know if anyone was ever actually ‘saved by the bell.’
“Anyone who doesn’t believe that God intervened just doesn’t understand!”
after the ‘good doctoring’, of course...
My primary told us that the doctors at the first hospital were quite wrong, but using 'good doctoring' in the sense that they were operating within current established protocols; i.e., they had done nothing wrong.
The point is that God provided a path to get me connected to "better doctors" who were operating outside of established protocols. Those were the guys who saved my life.
He got better.
What was the first diagnosis and what was the actual condition, if you don’t mind?
Original diagnosis was a simple brain bleed. The first doctors were hoping that the blood would reabsorb. The correct diagnosis was a CSF, Cranial Spinal Fluid, leak. The leak induced the brain bleed as the cranial fluid departed. My brain was actually not floating any more. It was resting on the bone at the bottom of my skull.
However, brain scans, by protocol, are taken with the patient lying down, so the image does not show the lack of floatation. Also, they aren't looking for any leaks.
The surgeries were (1) to put in drains so the blood would drain and (2) blood patches to seal the leaks. They fixed mine with two patches. The person seen by my primary the prior year had required five patches.
“A similar brain problem happened to me last year.”
God gave you a great PCP!
I was kid and during a gymnatic class hit my head badly. About a half hour later had a headache and lost a small portion of central vision, later had vomit going across the nurse’s office. Oh coarse, back then, the school nurse sent me home!
On the way home I would have these short shaking spells. Got home and just passed out.
Years later in a nueroanatomy class class I learned I had posterior brain trauma with enough swelling that my brain was pushing out of the hole in the bottom of my skull and to cut off the blood supply to the back of my brain to affect my sight. (That is lecture I will never forget)
It sounds like a very mild posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome.
Did a Pediartic Neurology rotation at St. Joes. Saw God’s miracles every day!
During the time surrounding Terry Shiavo, a women was speaking out about witholding fluids.
She had been in a coma, fluids witheld and she woke up.
She talked about how painfull dehydration is. It’s hell.
You and your pop did the right thing, MAJOR!
Gotta love all the missed diagnoses that miraculously end up being decided by other human doctors that nothing wrong was done.
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