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T_Bone
03-08-2008 23:44:20
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Re: OT: Prayers needed for attempted suicide. in reply to doug in illinois, 03-08-2008 21:18:43
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Hi Doug,
Prayers from our family to yours!
I just went thru this last year with our daughter. Make damn sure your girl took a overdose, absolute positive. They induce comma until the drugs can work work thru the body with time, if it indeed is a drug induced cause.
First, it's a known fact that a "teaching" hospital is the best place for care for this type of problem as they have "teams" of doctors for every case. Most likely this hospital is a County hospital. More heads thinking equal faster recovery.
Our Daughter was first thought to overdose on Soma, a powerful muscle relaxer. When the SIL found the daughter and she was in severe convultions againist the bedroom wall. They worked on her for over two hours before they could life flight her to the hospital 75 miles away.
The ER Doc diganose was "soma drug overdose" as that's what the daughter was taking. No lab tests to confim the diagnose, just "gut feeling" of his experience with a drug overdose of "Soma".
Nine days in a comma in ICU, we kept telling the Doc's they had it wrong that she had everything to live for, 2yr old at home but her FIL was burried that day.
When the Doc's would try to temporary bring her out of comma, she would once again start into severe convultsions. Something that you never want to see, believe me.
One head intern Doc listen to us on the 9th day, that this was NOT a drug overdose and there had to be another problem and ordered a spinal tap. Her spinal pressure was 57 plus where normal is 10??? The machine would not read higher than 57. They had never seen that high of spinal pressure before!
Two days latter after the spinal tap, the daughter was awake and moved from ICU to a regular "Physic" room. The Doc's still did not believe us and the down fall of a teaching hospital as we once again had to start over with a new "team" of Doc's. I had to get down right nasty with a couple of them. I told one Doc, she needed to go back to school and take Doctor 101 over again as she sure didn't know what the heII she was doing.
When patients come out of comma, they do and say things that are very irrational. My daughter had 7 kids the night before, the hospital staff were trying to kill her, etc:, They here alot while in the comma state according to my daughter.
Our daughter had her medecine stored in a small steel safe, away from the 2yo and 13yo, and fell and hit her head trying to open the safe to get to her medicine. That's what caused her severe convultsions, not drugs as the Doctors first thought. It took another 3mths or so for the daughter to fully recover.
Hope this helps some how!
T_Bone
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