Er... that’s not very tactful is it...
I dunno...I was trying to impress upon them that this was a condition you don’t survive. Cause you generally don’t. Once that process begins (usually right away after an injury), it’s not something you can reverse. Low swinging chariot or not, there’s usually only one outcome. So he got the grasp of what I was trying to say, and had a humorous way of letting me know he understood there’s no cure.
At least that’s what I was taught and what I understood during my years as a brain trauma nurse. That’s been 18 years ago, so maybe it’s changed. Maybe they “can” stop a herniation now...
I know that when folks have a stroke nowadays, they can do something about it. Strokes from clots, anyways...they have meds they can inject to stop and even reverse the situation! That was NOT what I was taught in school. I was taught there was nothing to be done.
They don’t have any meds yet for the kind of stroke you have when you have high blood pressure, though. :-( That’s a hemmorhagic stroke. A burst vessel...not a clogged-up one.