What it feels like to be in a Coma
90I have a rare genetic disorder that existed within me since birth, but did not effect my life until I was 10 years old. This created a lot of problems since I was at a very pivotal age in growth and development. It also made me a lot more aware of what was happening to me and I remember most everything I went through. Being a young child and suddenly being ambushed with a life threatening illness was very intense, and in some way I would say worse than if I were to have gone through everything as a baby since you usually do not remember things from such a small age.
Now I will post other HUB's that tell more information about my condition in the future, but in this particular HUB I wanted to share with you just how it feels to be in a Coma.
I was chatting with my sister the other day and I was telling her what it felt like to be put into a drug induced coma and be hooked up to a Ventilator. When I looked up and saw the horror-ed look on her face it dawned on me. I was telling her this as though it was an everyday occurrence and a normal thing to have experienced, a normal topic of conversation. She, who has never had any major health problems, was terrified by the idea and totally freaked out by what I was saying. So, I thought I should write about it for those who have loved ones in this position or are just curious.
My intentions are not to upset anyone, or freak anyone out. Especially if you have a loved one who is going through this right now. I am just trying to share my experience with being put into a drug induced coma and having to be on a Ventilator in ICU for a couple weeks.
There I was, in the hospital again. Briefly I will say my illness has to do with my intestines and I have had about 24 feet removed over about 10 surgeries. I was in the ICU after a very lengthy surgery that left my body very drained and not able to keep myself alive on my own, I was placed on a Ventilator. I was also put into a drug induced coma because the pain from the surgery and the ventilator was so much they did not want to risk me going into shock or not being able to tell them how much pain I was in. Now I am going to share with you just how I felt being in that state. It might be a little weird since the memories flow in and out of my mind, but as I try to channel them I will write what I remember and then try to make it make sense for everyone else.
I remember hearing people around me. Everyone was staring at me and I could feel it, but I couldn't open my eyes to look at them. I remember hearing the familiar voices of my loved ones talking about my every movement like it was a miracle. "LOOK! She moved her finger!" someone would say. "I wonder if she can hear us?" someone else would ask. Then I heard my mom, my rock, the one with all the info (which she made sure of to the best of her ability) "Yes, she can hear you." She told them. And at that moment I relaxed because I knew as long as she was there I was safe and everything would be ok.
She then took my hand and started talking to me. She would talk to me for hours and never let go. I could feel her warm touch and it made my heart smile deep inside, something I still had control of. I had many thoughts and emotions but didn't have the power over my body to express them. So I lay there very aware of my surroundings when awake and then drifting off to sleep. When I slept, because of all the drugs I was on, it was like being in a whole other world. A world where I was on acid and things were very similar to the movie Alice in Wonderland or Dumbo. I even started telling my aunt and grandmother about the pink elephants that were dancing around the room and was amazed that they could not see them, they were everywhere!
The dreams were crazy and I am not sure I could ever really recall them for they only made sense in the moment. As for the actual have a machine breath for me part. I describe it as one of the worst experiences I have ever been through, like a sort of slow torture. The machine pumps oxygen into your body and breaths for you at a set pace that is appropriate for your size and age. The oddest thing to me was that it was set to set an abnormally slow pace that I constantly felt like they were suffocating me. Its felt like a slow torture where I would nearly die of no oxygen then they would give me some at the last second before I died. I guess that is a normal feeling, to feel like your suffocating and part of it has to do with the huge tube you have inserted into your throat.
Since I was on it for so long, they started to decrease my medication a little so that I could actually open my eyes and communicate with my family. That was nice. I had a notepad and I would write notes to everyone and talk that way because it was to painful and nearly impossible to speak with the large tube in my throat. I remember getting to see my sister, dad, step mom, step sister, best friend, aunts, uncles, grandparents, pretty much all my close family came to sit with me. They would bring me presents and I would get to open them over and over again, each time being just as surprised as the last time because I never remembered getting it before! That was pretty cool.
I remember actually being happy to have so many loved ones surrounding me. I cannot tell you enough how much the support of those people helped me get through that time and pull through. Without them I may not be alive today. My sister and my best friend both wrote me notes. Long notes expressing their love for me and telling me of all that was going on in the world that I was missing and how I needed to hurry and come home so I could join them once again. Keeping my hope and spirits alive, that's what they were doing. They were beautiful notes and I cried not only when I read them the first time, but much later when I got to leave the hospital. I was going through my bags and bags of stuff I came home with (you acquire a lot when you are there for months at a time) and I came across these letters. To my knowledge I had never seen them before, so I ripped them open and read them all over again. I cried and cried because I really felt the sadness in my sister and best friends hearts and couldn't imagine how it must have felt to see your sister laying there half dead. I remember getting mad at my mom for not showing me the letters, thinking she tried to hide them from me so as not to upset me and she said no honey you read and reread them many times while you were there. I said "oh".
So, I guess what I am trying to say is that if you have a friend or loved one who must endure this procedure, just know how much you being there, talking to them and holding there hand, makes a difference. I can tell you from experience, I truly feel I might have given up a few times without them. So when your there by there bedside wondering whats going on in their head. Talk to them, they can hear you, they can feel you, even if they cant tell you how much it means to them. You are making a difference and be sure to inspire hope and create possible future scenarios to instill the future they still have and remind them why they are fighting.
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Thank you so much for that comment Joseph. It means a lot to me to know that something I wrote was able to inspire someone even just a little bit. Its reasons like that, that help me remember why I love to write so much. Its true, I too read anything and everything I can that sparks my interest and I find inspiration everyday in small things here and there that I never would expect.
Your right when you say it could always be worse. I tell myself the same thing all the time. I am sorry to hear that your health is taking a toll on your life. It is always difficult no matter the severity to have something like health problems mix into your daily routine. I would love to keep in touch I will email you so that you can have my email as well.
Thank you for taking the time to share that with me.
xo Aubrey
one of my really good friends is in a coma. I was trying to find out if she hears me when I talk to her. after reading your story I feel better knowing that she probably can. please pray for her if you think about it. her name is Krista Matthews and her condition is very serious.
I will keep her in my prayers Ann. I am glad that I was able to offer you some insight and reassure you that your efforts are not wasted. Of course it is only my opinion and my experience that I speak from but I whole heartedly feel that she knows you are there with her and feels the love you provide. I hope she pulls through and send my love to her and the family as I know how hard it is on them as well.
hello
my mother expired 5years back due to brain haemorrhage. she slipped into a coma state and was put on a ventilator. for 4-5days. me and my sister would sit beside her on the bed and cry softly, thats when the nurse would come and tell us not to cry in front of her, coz though she was in a coma state she could hear everything. but then suddenly one fine day the doctors said that she's no more saying that her pulsed and dropped and her heart beat had dropped too. me and my sister were not around when this happened. my maternal uncle was with mother when this happened. i want to know could they've taken off the ventilator without consulting with us and then giving us another story? could my mother hear us when we used to speak to her or cry sitting beside her?
I am so sorry to hear that Yasmine. I am sure that it was really hard for you and your sister to go through that. Unfortunately, I cannot know what your mom was thinking or feeling since each person is different. I can only explain my experience with it, which is what I have done to my best ability in the short story above. As far as if the hospital staff could have secretly taken her off and told you otherwise, I would like to think that no one would do that to someone and their family without permission, however, I also have no clue what went on in your mothers hospital room at the time of her passing so I cannot even take a guess as to if that is the case or not. Either way I can tell that you are still very hurt over her passing and I can only offer my condolences and hope that you are able to heal from that trumatic experience of having to see your mom like that.
It's nice that you and your sister can lean on eachother if need be.
Stay Strong,
Aubrey
Thanks for the info, I have a friend that is in a cemicaly induced coma, I knew that he could hear me, but I wasn't really sure, and now I know, my 20 minute visits will turn into hour long visits reading the paper to him and whatever I can do to comfort him and makesure that he knows that we are waiting for him when he is ready to stabalize
Im so glad I could help Shane. My thoughts go out to your friend and He's lucky to have you there with him.
One of the guys that i've been in love with forever, he liked me too, but I never got up the nerve to make a move on him. Weve liked eachother forever, and the thought of what happened to him devistates me.. I'll call him vix, because I don't feel comfortable using anynames.. { it would be embarassing for my family to see this! :D } I'm only fourteen, 'vix' feel and hit his head and blood started pouring from his ears, and they life flighted him to the nearest hospital, he went into a coma three hours later. I'm not sure what to do.. I would pour my feelings out to him, but I just don't know if he can hear me or not! anyways, after reading this it made me feel a little bit better.
thanks for the post, sincerely,
anyonymous. :}
Bear in mind that injury-induced comas are actually the kind where you're basically dead for all purposes and intents. An injury-induced coma is the exact same thing as a very deep sleep, you don't dream, feel, or hear anything.
A drug-induced coma however, is much different, in the way that you're very much alive, but you just lack the brain power to react to your surroundings. You can feel, see, and hear, but you just can't necessarily react to it, you can't comprehend the fact that you're seeing and hearing, but you still are.
Yes, I am aware of that. But thank you for making sure the other readers were as well. I thought I tried to make it clear that it was a Drug induced coma and my intentions of explaining that were to make sure to differentiate myself from someone in another form of coma. But I am glad you made sure to clear it up further becuase I would never want to mislead anyone.
my friend was in an a coma for the past 2 and a half yrs. i really believe she can hear me! after reading your letter it gave me more hope.. you inspired me! so thank you! you gave me the idea to write a journal with her everytime i go to her. i just want to kno what are somethings you would want to hear? everytime im there i speak, i tell her whats going on. i tell her to stay strong and im with her through every step of the way... but what are somethings that one would want to hear when they aare in an a coma? or what would you like to hear when you were in it?
Im so sorry to hear about your friend Rochel.
Im so happy tho to hear that I could inspire you and help you feel a little better. I know it can be really hard to have a loved one go through such a tragedy.
I think that just having someone there that loves her and brings positive words of strength and encouragement is all she could ask for. You know I cannot know if she can hear you or not, but I do know that people have certain vibrations they give off and a positive one is always better than negative. Even for the rest of the family not just your friend.
Hang in there Rochel, make sure to surround yourself with loving positive people as well.
Aubrey, you are an extremely strong person and a fighter. Your story has filled me with hope and I will be thinking of you, and everyone who has commented, and wishing you the best in your lives and the lives of those you love
What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?
I think it is the hope of loving,
or being loved.
I heard a fable once about the sun going on a journey
to find its source, and how the moon wept
without her lover’s
warm gaze.
We weep when light does not reach our hearts. We wither
like fields if someone close
does not rain their
kindness
upon
us.
If all else dies, keep love in your lives x x x x x
My best friend has struggled with health problems his entire life. He's always in and out of the hospital, undergoing all sorts of surgery and invasive probing... Sometimes, when it's really serious, he has to go into a drug-induced coma.
It really scared me the first time he told me he would have to go into a coma after his operation. I was sixteen, and he was my entire world - that his life would be suspended, in a way, was something that really frightened me. He's the bravest person I've ever met - instead of being nervous for his own life, he comforted me before he went under.
I didn't know at all what to expect from a drug-induced coma, but I'd always heard doctors say that people do hear everything when they're in a coma, although they may not always remember everything when they wake up.
I couldn't always go see him in the hospital, because I was still attending school, but every weekend for a few hours I would go see him and just talk to him, hold his hand, and let him know I was waiting for him, and I couldn't wait for him to wake up. I would tell him all about my week, and reminisce about good times we spent together.
When he woke up, he told me what it was like going under - all really fast, and a blur, and he said the coma was really dark, and it felt like he was living inside himself, if that makes any sense.
I never asked him if he remembered my visits, but I might one of these days. He and I are still the closest of friends, and I love him so much.
I came across this page because i was looking for people's accounts on being in a coma because i am writing a story. I have been on a drug induced coma as well but i don't remember much. I have Crohn's and after one of my many operations something went wrong and my bowel burst inside me so after the op that nearly killed me they let my body rest because i was so weak. I weighed so little and my body was shutting down. I was in the coma for 2 weeks and spent so long in hospital that i forgot what home actually was lol. Must have been weird being awake and remembering all that cause i didn't have quite a vivid experience. Hope your better now!
thank you so much for posting this. my best friend was put in a coma today for all the pain she is suffering from her car accident. Broken neck, back, toes, collar bone, broken everything. I really never knew she could hear me, it breaks my heart in so many ways to see her like this :,( but you gave me many answers today. Hearing this from a doctor should be reassuring but its not. I thought he was trying to make me feel better. But you gave me more hope that i didn't think i could possibly have. Again, thank you so very very much!
This sounds silly, but I was watching American Dad, and the alien went into a coma. The dad and his wife went into the alien's mind while he was in a coma, and it looks like a beautiful. I was curious if it accurately illustrates the mind of a person who's in a coma, so I googled it and found your blog. I just want to comment and say thanks for helping me gain knowlegde about it without the technical explanation with huge scitific terms that confuse me.
awwww
My friend got in a coma this morning...he's 17 and it all started from too much energy drinks...I like him a lot and I'm not ready to visit him because we have a kinda long distance frienship...please help
Wow. Thank you so much for sharing your story. I was always curious how something like this felt like. My dad was also placed in a drug induced coma and I alway wanted to ask him what it was like and what he was going through. But I never got that chance because I was to young when he went through his treatment for cancer, which took his life.
I just want to say thanks. I am really happy you shared this part of your life. I'm sure this will help others that may be going through something similar within their own life or a significant other.
Hi ... A young girl I know is in a coma at the moment and I believe no matter what that there is a spiritual meaning and a natural process working things out . She has been taking off life support and 5 weeks later is still in this state . I'm believing for a full recovery and God to move in this girls life and family for a miracle however it comes . Good things come out of desperate circumstances and trusting in God can begin. The family has got closer , compassion and care and hope has begun and Gods love is working . I believe that anything can happen nothing is impossible with God and believing in his Son Jesus that has bridged the gap so we can come to know God by accepting Jesus in our heArts :-) I been speaking to Grace and singing to her and talking to her about salvation and hope and peace .. I am aware she could be in a fearful state lieing there ... She has a little 5 1/2 month old baby and the situation is very heart breaking and sad . ... There is an eternal reason for everything and it can bring forgiveness amounst family issues and people can start asking God for help in tradegy ...we can cone to know him in our trials .... God is love we are His hands and feet to show others .....I believe that it's important to speak life and hope and live and care and a human touch as you have explained here ... I put perfume on her and lip gloss and touch her head and speak softly and I sing to her ... Your Grace and your mercy is all I need your living kindness your hope and you're peace .. I'm reaching for your love and my soul finds release your grace and your mercy is all I need .... Thank you Jesus for Grace life and may you be lifted up over her life and Family in your name I pray :-)
This has help me better understand what my family member is going through I know he can hear me but I'm curious about wither he see me his eyes are opening when he's awake that had me shocked and scared because I'm hoping he's not blind by this accident. He was hit by a fire truck. He had two broken ribs and has a masive. Brain injury when we are in the room talking to him his heart rate goes up and he tried to get up like raising his legs and upper body when asked to . I miss him so much we talk to him he opens his eyes
My mother had a perfereated bowel and on top of that she had a heart attack, and we were told mom only had a 10% chance of survival and if we put her in an induced coma her chances were 20%. So the doctors put her in induced coma for two weeks and in that time her heart usuage went from 20% to 50% and her lungs from 200 to 500, so her body reacted well to being able to rest and the machines doing all the work for her tired, weak body.
She has now been in ICU for 3 weeks and improving everyday. She now has a very good chance of surviving and if we had not decided to put her in induced coma she would of died.
Thanks for posting your experiences, I hope you are doing ok these days.
My son had a burst appendix and was in a coma for 3 months. Half the time was drug induced. I saw many sick and dying children in the ICU durring that time. I think the drugs prevent him from telling me about his experiences. I hope whoever reads this can help reduce their suffering, and help support not only the ones we love but all people who are very sick or permanently disabled.
So many terrible things happen to children, it is hard to bear.
I was placed in a drug induced coma for just three days. I do not remember being aware of my surroundings. When i first opened my eyes i heard a voice from my deceased mother "I will be inside your sister" and watched as a small cloud slowly drifted to the right and disappear. My sister handed me some paper and a pencil and I started writing what looked like Morse code. (Which I don't know)
It's been 2 years now and I have been in severe depression and have had 30 shock treatments. You may think I'm crazy but I swear I'm depressed that I woke up. I have thought about this for such a long time and I believe now that I was with my mother and then was yanked away. This in no way means I will do something stupid but has finally given me hope that there is more than this. I don't know that this will help anyone but to be able to tell my story is great help for me.
thank you so much for sharing your story. my sister in law has been in a drug induced coma for 38 days now after a double lung tranplant and it is sooo hard to sit idly by .the drs. just started letting her husband in the room with her a week ago,and now they are letting her brother(my husband) in the room also.they are trying their best to talk ,give encouragement to her. as you said there are no signs that she is hearing anyone.for a couple of days she partiall opened her eyes but with no recognition of her surroundings.now she seems to be slipping back into deep sleep. this is so heart wrenching.so really I just wanted to thank you for giving me HOPE
This is the kind of bullshit that retarded 13 year old girls tell everyone about just to gain attention. I laughed at your misfortune and if it is true, I will be laughing even harder.
yours sinceerely
Annonymous hater.
Just to let anninymous h8r no dat he is so full of shit an no to h8 but appreicate!! i av a loved one in a coma due to TBI its been 2months nie and i no dis person can hear wheater der aware all the tym is another thing. hearing is da last sense to go so it is good to talk to the person in dis state. i believe with all my heart peps in a coma can hear an feel u touching dem!! this i no thro experience. so h8r grow up an dont judge or laugh outa someones misfortune just becoz u dont understand something doesnt mean u make fun of it!!!i hope u nva experience this in ur life it is hell so show abit of respect!! from a person in health care and with a loved one in a coma. ps. to all the rest of use good luck an nva gave up hope :)
hi cheryl thnx for sharing your story my heart goes out to you and your family im very sorry to hear about your sister in law buut hang in there and plz do alot of talking to her because she can hear and know that you are there my dad was in a dic back in 2008 he was very much aware of me and who ever else that was in that room because every time i wood ask him a question he would sqeeze my hand a few times if i would ask him too and so fourth.. i am so thankful that i had him for a father for 62 years and that most inportant of all is that he was aware that i was there. and my brother and sisters... also and in the end we were all there for him he passed away about 14 hours later due to complications. he was in a dic for about 3 days. i hope everthing is ok for you and ecspecially youre sister in law again god bless you and youre entire family...............
Interesting piece. Always wondered. Noone ever shares. For this I thank you. My mother went through this, and I always wondered if she knew I was always there. Thank you
intresting story though to bad people who want to be in a coma dont have that and (tho it doesint accour often never seen anyone in a coma before) people who dont want to have a coma WTF is with the world!
My sisters friends dad is in the hospital with cancer, and he is in a coma right now. :(
thankyou for posting this i cry when reading this but it made feel better that my dad could still be listening to us and some gave me more hope that he is still there
Dear Aubrey Allyn ,
It is really an amzing read anf frightening too. I feel happy that you came out of it. may Allah bless u with good health.
In fact, I am writing a novel in which the protagonist goes in to coma and was just wondering what it was like to be in that conditions. Your descriptions will help me a lot and thanks for that. Now i will able to be more empathetic towards my charachter. Can as you a question dear if u don't mind? Is past momories alive during coma, i mean to say whether a comatose person is able recollect whatever had happened with him in past?
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I think only in some case you should talk to a person who is in Medically induced coma. My mom make the mistake of doing that, and my uncle tried to sit up, the machines went crazy and the nurses had to re-do the breathing tube and a couple of other things. He has a collapsed lung, Broken ribs, concussion ect. They have him in restraints because he will move seemingly unconsciously. So we are quite in the room. This is due to a car accident.
I read this and was referred to this site by a friend. I have my other half in the hospital, and on a vent. She was sepsis, and went into the hospital with respiratory failure, BP of 50/40 and renal failure. They had her on the vent set @ 100%. She is now at 30% :) and being weened off sedation and the vent, so she doesn't become dependent on it. I know she can hear me, because she'll smile, yawn or, when I hold her hand, she'll open her eyes. She will also open her mouth when the nurse asks to take her temperature. She now has a trach to give her an airway, and her vitals are stable. Her BP is now at 119/59, without BP medications. Your story has made me smile, and has cleared up a lot of question of curiosity. Curiousity from wondering if she can for sure hear me. I mean.. at times I'm sure and others, I wonder. But you have cleared up some things for me. I would like to keep in touch with you, and so, here's my email: Saltswift21@gmail.com. My name is Rayne.
PS: your story is phenomenal. Keep up the good work and I will share this story with friends and family, also. God bless you!
Thanks for all your stories. My husband is getting a trache tomorrow after being on the vent for 2 weeks. Hopefully this will help him. If you have any stories about the trache please share them. Thanks. Please pray for him also. Thanks.
Hi i have a question about this tings
my question is
WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ABOUT THIS QUESTION ?
Imagine you woke up from a coma in the years what do you see ? what the future might be like
tan
I myself was in a medically induced coma after developing sepsis after abdominal surgery. I was in the coma for 101 days & in ICU for a total of 130 days. I spent 8 weeks at a rehab hospital to be weaned off the ventilator. I have no memories at all during my coma and my family said I was restrained due to my body having involuntary jerks. Twice I opened my eyes when my sister was there but she said that everyone could tell that it was involuntary. I remember nothing, heard nothing, was completely unaware of what was going on. My lungs, kidneys and liver were shutting down. I was given a 10% chance of survival & was placed on a ventilator. It's 2 years later and I'm still trying to learn to walk. So, your experience is completely different from mine. But I'm glad you made it through.
Wow... This is so heartwrenching to sit here and read about these stories. It makes me look like a complete selfless jerk when I complain about stupid little everyday things, like too much homework... Which in reality, people who are put in these kind of situations, they would kill to be able to say that.
I'm glad that I stumbled upon this! I'm currently writing a book and this gave me sooo much insure about what I should write about and everything that goes on. I'm glad that you were able to recall some of those memories to share with us even though ut may have hurt you to remember them. Thank you again and I hope tou, Aubrey are in a better condition now as well as everyone posting comments above:) I'm very touched
ive been in a coma for 2 weeks in september because someone chucked a brick at my head, my friend saved my life by calling 999 (or 911) on my mobile and i am forever thankfull. she also stayed in hospital until i was discharged (my parents were on cruise so they couldn't be there)
I like to get in to coma and leave my family members forever..:( :(
I was put in a drug induced coma 13 years ago because I was hit by a car while I was crossing the street and had life threatening injuries. I was in a coma for about 2 weeks. I remember loved ones coming in to visit and talk to me. I also remember a nun coming to talk to me too. It was so comforting to hear those voices.
Wow. I've been rather curious on this subject but i've only heard stories about coma's and such. I've heard that you can hear and feel your your surroundings but thats about it.
Speaking of which, some questions have just came to mind.
While in a coma, are you awake the whole time? Or is it like some fully body paralysis that only leaves your mind intact?
Does time seem to fly by, as if it were like a dream?
Anyone who can answer these can if they want. Im just curious.
Well, anyways, thanks for sharing. Hope everything works out well for you.
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thankyou for all ur stories...especially aubrey as my little girls dad is in the nccu atm from having a massive brain hemorrage...he is in a coma,and i swear the last 3 days he has heard me talking to him as he grabs my hand and strokes me with his thumb,although the nurses are trying to say he is doing this in his sleep,i feel he can hear me his eyes open and shut like hes can hear but not move apart frm him eyelids and one hand...im praying for him,and soothing him with words of comfort and encouragement, i just feel so helpless,and his poor mum is in bits,please pray for us to stay strong and will him out of his coma...he is in God's hands now,and i just hope he wakes up soon, hes only 30 and has his whole life ahead of him...he just dropped down and had a massive bleed so the haters out there should consider their cruel words,as it could happen to anyone....i know he can hear me,and gives me great comfort from aubreys story...i shall carry on telling him whats happening to him and urging him to fight,because that is all that l have....God bless x
I also was in a coma from the drugs mine was due to a very severe and life-threatening asthma attack. I remember telling the EMT's to intubate me, which I never wanted but knew it was my only chance for survival, I had stopped breatheing briefly in the ambulance, mind you I don't remember even leaving my house to the ambulance, but I remember telling them to intubate me. Don't remember the ride to the hospital, being taken in, I only remember waking up the following Monday to the breathing tube in my throat and yes they are so uncomfortable. They removed it and the same night I was back in ICU and woke up that Thursday with the tube in my throat again, was not ready to leave the ICU and I remembver getting a lot of breathing treatments that Monday night but after that I don't remember anything. I was so scared that I was not going to survive but I did and my man and his daughter was there for me everyday but the days I was knocked out I don't remember them being there talking to me, touching me or nothing. I know I am just grateful to have had them there with me and to have GOD with me also, having the 3 of them with me made a huge difference with my recovering. I never expected to have that bad of an asthma attack and my heart was so stressed from the asthma attack they thought I had an mild heart attack which I did not have, but my heart produced the enzyme that made it look like I did. Both times I had the tube in my throat I awoke with my hands strapped to the side of the bed from trying to pull the tube out.
As I was reading your story I felt like I was being given a message..... Not to give up. My mother has had her entire intestine removed. This is her second time on a ventilator and induced coma. Today as I was telling her I loved her, her pulse rate on the monitor started racing and it entered my mind that she could hear me. That is why I googled this topic. I was meant to read your story which is so very similar to ours. Thank u
Hello Aubrey,
your story is so inspiring. Do you know if a person on a ventilator in a coma can lift their head? My mom was on one, after she was admitted to hospital. She raised her head 2 times for about 3-5 seconds. the doctor's said it was the ventilator making her do that. do you know anything about this? She was an organ donor. So i oftened questioned this, before they asked us to make a decision whether or not to pul the plug.
Keep your spirit high!
Peace.
Dee
Hi Aubrey, thanks for sharing this. I had read this article awhile back but I never thought it would be of any use to me. Now though, as my cousin is in a drug induced coma, it is really nice to hear encouraging stories. I have been to the hospital to see him but haven't yet found the strength to actually enter his room and see him all hooked up. I am hoping to go back though so I can sit and talk with him for a little while. You're story has given me some hope that he will pull through!
thank you for this my sister fought lupus for years and she developed an infection which became septic she was in a coma in the icu for 3 weeks and she died on the 11th of February. I dont know why but I need to know why at 32 she had to suffer so much. All I wanted to know is if she knew i was there with her everyday. I also wanted to know if she felt pain during all of that, I hope the body protects itself during trauma and spared her all that pain. But your article helped me .
thank you very much for sharing your feelings. I would like to take a positive side of it...
OMG thank you so much for sharing your story. I am trying to write a book about a girl who comes out of an injury-induced coma and when she wakes up, her memory is gone. Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!
You can email me at gracewriter@verizon.net.
Thanks!
-Grace
Hi, I've also been in an induced coma and on a ventilator. It was a very frightening experience and a very lonely one as its difficult to speak to people about. I'm glad that I found you, I don't feel quite so crazy as some of what you described I've shared. I had other experiences too during this time, which are hard to talk about. I'm sure that people would think that I'm mad if I did.
Hi, my step dad is 68yrs old he had his left leg anputate (his diabetic)Tuesday morning he had a heart attack and it cause him a cerebral hemorrhagece that made his system shut down and is now in a coma..this is killing me inside slowly..please keep him in your parayer, his m=name is Jose..Good luck to you..my Email is migdalia.cartagena@pfizer.com.I could use all the support I can. God Bless
Thank you for sharing your experience, we have a very dear loved one who has been through this he is still not awake, and has his ventilator still insitu, Please add our dear John to your prayers, Joyatmountview@yahoo.co.uk
thank you so much for describing this i have a friend's wife in the hospital in a coma right now shes been there for almost 2 weeks now and we do wonder if she can hear us or feel us when we touch her, its a hard situation to not see her react but i will take this letter to her husband and tell him not to give up and to continue fighting with her, thanks so much
god bless you
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Joseph 3 years ago
I just happened to read your story because I was reading another about "metrosexuals" and you left a comment that pretty much summed up my feelings on it...and then I saw "the OC" part, and I live in the the OC too, so I knew exactly who, or at the very least, the type of people you were talking about.
Anyhow, this comment is running long.
I read your HUB?, post, and, (I read and try to soak up all I can all the time, articles, movies, books, whatever...I've just heard a lot of stories about a lot of things) I have never heard anyone describe being in a coma. But I always knew how I never wanted it to be, and you described that. I'm having health issues too, nothing as bad as yours, but they keep me from working and school. Reading your story made me feel like I could go through much worse. I guess it can always be worse.
I hope you are well, or getting better.
My name is Joseph.
Email me if you'd like. joseph.r.garza@gmail.com