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coming out of a coma
by: linda on Tue, Feb 05 2008
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Hi,
I am a diabetic and on the week of october 1,2007 i had a bad cold. On oct.4,2007 I failed to show up for work. I was passed out on my bedroom floor and my neighbour had to break in to get to me. I went to the first hospital and they said i had pneumonia and proceeded to intubate me but put the tube in the wrong lung and ended up giving me double lung infection. This caused my sugar to rise to 43(canadian measurement for sugar levels) that put me into the coma and it lasted until oct. 18,2007.

When I woke up I had no idea of why I was in icu. I was not a happy camper I hated the nurses because everytime they came near me i knew i would in pain. I couldn’t wait to get up and go home.I was told by one of my doctors that when people come out of a coma they feel like they were tortured.I had anxiety , anger and no memory of what happened that week that I was sick and those two weeks in the coma. Everyone was coming in and crying and normally if anyone starts to cry i cry too. but I just couldn’t understand why all and I mean a lot of people were crying when they saw me.

For the life of me I still am not sure how I am supposed to feel except extremely grateful to be alive. They did call my family in twice in two days with a 2% chance of living so yes i am very thankful for all the prayers and thoughts.
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  1. Mon, Feb 18 2008
    [quote="linbad":57d82]MY prayers are with you and I hope your husband comes fully back. The doctors were afraid of what if any brain damage ...Read
  2. Sun, Feb 17 2008
    MY prayers are with you and I hope your husband comes fully back. The doctors were afraid of what if any brain damage there was going to be.I say no m...Read
  3. Thu, Feb 14 2008
    Linda, thank you for your story. My husband went into a coma since January 31, 2008 until present. He just went off the vent today and was able to bre...Read

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  • coming out of a coma - by linda - (Tue, Feb 05 2008)
    Hi, I am a diabetic and on the week of october 1,2007 i had a bad cold. On oct.4,2007 I failed to show up for work. I was passed out on my bedroom floor and my neighbour had to break in to get to me. I went to the first hospital and they said i had pneumonia and proceeded to intubate me but put the tube in the wrong lung and ended up giving me double lung infection. [more..]

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