Coping With Coma

please help me with my sister’s case of coma. we have a history of heart ailment from our mother who died of this illness. prior to comatose, my sister had loneliness and depressions caused by her problems because the husband was a former drug addict, irresponsible and uncaring. she bore all the problem of earning for the family and her husband’s relatives who live with them.

she has to work doubletime and earn extra because of family expenses and schooling of her three children, she reports to work at 8am but has to travel for two hours, goes home 9-10pm, travels to seminars, trainings, conferences and when she arrives home, the husband throws all the problems to her. my sister is petite and frail but always tries her best to survive for the sake of the children.

Yesterday, when she alighted from the bus to cross the street where her office is located, she suddenly vomited blood and fell unconscious. good that highway police saw her and immediately brought her to the hospital. she was pronounced in comatose state, not a single nerve shows life, only the respirator keeps her breathing but i don’t know how fast or slow. i am here and she is confined in manila, some 1,500 kilometers away and can be reached by boat in three days or plane in almost two hours.

what could possibly cause her state? she is a strong woman of faith, strong-willed, eager to live for the children aged 8, 6 and 2. whenever she has problems, she has difficulty breathing but successfully survived it before, she had a history of blood vomiting whenever she is overfatigued or overstressed. now she has succumbed to that comatose state. please help me ASAP, we need her but our problem is financial. how can we help her with all her medications when we don’t have financial capability?

Also, we just lost our other sister to acute myocardial infarction last august 4, 2007. i am puzzled by the lump of arteries or large veins in her throat/neck, wast it the cause of choking or difficulty in breathing? when she died, she had lumps of arteries in her throat, darkened arms, very pale finers, very very stiff and her neck could not be moved which according to embalmers was due to stiffening in her throat.