My friend was admitted into the hospital on June 13, 2013 for pancreatitis, on the 15, she was in a coma. During those two days, her oxygen level was dropping dramatically, and they say that she was refusing the oxygen and to be intabated??? Who in their right mind would come to the hospital to get help, and then refuse it?? They claim to have argued with her for 4 hours to intabate her, until her blood pressure bottomed out, she went into full cardiac arrest, and they intabated her anyway!!! During all of this, she severed her tongue with her teeth, and for three weeks, she remained in a coma, continuously chewing on it. They were finally able to have a plastic surgeon come in a stitch it back together, however, when she came out if surgery, they placed a mouth block to keep her from doing it again, but again, she bit down so hard she broke all her front teeth out!!! We were given the options of (1) wiring her jaw closed, or (2) pulling all of her teeth. They explained that they could replace the teeth, but never the tongue, so we went with pulling them out, all of them. Weeks went by, and they told us that she has anoxic brain damage, with no hope of recovering??? A week after that, they said she also has alpha spindal coma, in other words, the lights are on but no one is home??? I've been here at the hospital with my friend since the 28 of June. I spend every night with her, bathe her everyday and try to keep her as comfortable as I can until she is well enough to be transferred to a sub acute long term facility. Everyday, I look at her and try to figure out just how all of this happened, and the doctors have yet to give a reason??? Its all to hard to watch your friend do through this horrible ordeal, and there is no way to tell her what has happened??? Tao days ago, they took her off the ventilator, and she has been breathing on her own. She has also began to mo e her arms and legs, and is now trying to sit up, however, they tell us that it is all involuntarily, and she has no ideal what she is doing?? Yesterday, her mouth was bleeding from the continuous chewing, even with no teeth, and when I went to wipe her mouth, she stuck out her tongue, and on the tip was a piece of tooth fragment, sharp enough to stick my finger!! Help,,,, where do I go from here??????
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My friend was admitted into the hospital on June 13, 2013 for pancreatitis, on the 15, she was in a coma. During those two days, her oxygen level was dropping dramatically, and they say that she was refusing the oxygen and to be intabated??? Who in their right mind would come to the hospital to get help, and then refuse it?? They claim to have argued with her for 4 hours to intabate her, until her blood pressure bottomed out, she went into full cardiac arrest, and they intabated her anyway!!! During all of this, she severed her tongue with her teeth, and for three weeks, she remained in a coma, continuously chewing on it. They were finally able to have a plastic surgeon come in a stitch it back together, however, when she came out if surgery, they placed a mouth block to keep her from doing it again, but again, she bit down so hard she broke all her front teeth out!!! We were given the options of (1) wiring her jaw closed, or (2) pulling all of her teeth. They explained that they could replace the teeth, but never the tongue, so we went with pulling them out, all of them. Weeks went by, and they told us that she has anoxic brain damage, with no hope of recovering??? A week after that, they said she also has alpha spindal coma, in other words, the lights are on but no one is home??? I've been here at the hospital with my friend since the 28 of June. I spend every night with her, bathe her everyday and try to keep her as comfortable as I can until she is well enough to be transferred to a sub acute long term facility. Everyday, I look at her and try to figure out just how all of this happened, and the doctors have yet to give a reason??? Its all to hard to watch your friend do through this horrible ordeal, and there is no way to tell her what has happened??? Tao days ago, they took her off the ventilator, and she has been breathing on her own. She has also began to mo e her arms and legs, and is now trying to sit up, however, they tell us that it is all involuntarily, and she has no ideal what she is doing?? Yesterday, her mouth was bleeding from the continuous chewing, even with no teeth, and when I went to wipe her mouth, she stuck out her tongue, and on the tip was a piece of tooth fragment, sharp enough to stick my finger!! Help,,,, where do I go from here??????
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