Coma

BigV · 07-03-2009, 07:19 AM

My best friend's teenage son is in a coma. He was in a car accident. I don't know all the details, but I do know this: my friend, his son, and the rest of his family all need your prayers and your healing energies. All your compassion and support is most welcome and sorely needed.

He doesn't know what to do, and I don't know how to help him. GAAAHHH! Kids! They break my heart.

Alluvial · 07-03-2009, 08:04 AM

Recovering from a coma can take months. The family can help the medical folks by talking to the son, reading to him, clipping his nails, helping physical therapy by doing exercises etc. - little things to help stimulate his mind into waking up.

Sorry to hear about the accident.

DanaC · 07-03-2009, 12:38 PM

God that's awful V. Sending positive thoughts (in lieu of prayers).

Aliantha · 07-03-2009, 07:28 PM

My thoughts will be with all of you V. I hope he comes out of it ok. I guess they'll know more in a few days huh?

Sheldonrs · 07-07-2009, 01:43 PM

Hope, thoughts and prayers from here as well.

BigV · 07-07-2009, 02:10 PM

Thank you all.

I wish I had something more to share with you besides just more agonizing waiting.

God.

Sun_Sparkz · 07-08-2009, 07:48 AM

Thats really horrible. how old is he? Do you know any more about the accident? Its crazy how in a time like this - life, time and everything that mattered yesterday just stops.

Hope that your friends son makes it through - your friend is lucky to have you there for him. make sure you dont hold back.

Queen of the Ryche · 07-08-2009, 03:28 PM

One of my very best friend's sons fell out of a moving truck, hit the back of his skull smack on the curb. Was in a coma for three weeks - they drilled to relieve the blood/fluid pressure on his brain, then we waited. And waited.

His mom would not leave the hospital. I took her lunch every day (which she hardly ate) then I would go home and cry. Then go back to the hospital to check on her, help her try to take a shower, try to get some clean clothes on her and brush her hair. And hold her. And talk to her son, even if he couldn't hear me. And read to him. And hold his hand.

After three weeks that seemed like three years, he one day decided to open his eyes, and smile. He knew we had been there the whole time. He couldn't explain it, but he said he felt us there. Four years later he has a little trouble with long term memory and he can't really taste or smell much, but other than that he is a perfectly normal, fully functioning 21 year old.

Don't know why I spilled this, but hope it helps in some way V...send him my love.

BigV · 07-08-2009, 04:53 PM

Yes! This does help. Thank you very much.

Griff · 07-08-2009, 05:48 PM

Sorry V, I hope he pulls through.

limey · 07-09-2009, 10:35 AM

Positive thoughts and good wishes sent from over the ocean to you, your friend and families.

classicman · 07-09-2009, 10:56 PM

Love, Hope and Prayer (of any kind) are the most powerful tools we have in these situations.

BigV · 07-10-2009, 11:08 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by classicman

Love, Hope and Prayer (of any kind) are the most powerful tools we have in these situations.

All of which are present in abundance!

Flint · 07-10-2009, 01:32 PM

I never know what to say in these situations. I usually build an emotional defense up against the humanity of the situation by offering a rational analysis such as: let us ponder the miracles of modern medicine, and be thankful we aren't living in Little House on the Prarie times...

wolf · 07-10-2009, 01:36 PM

Blessings, Love, Hope, and Luck.

07-03-2009, 07:19 AM	#1
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Coma My best friend's teenage son is in a coma. He was in a car accident. I don't know all the details, but I do know this: my friend, his son, and the rest of his family all need your prayers and your healing energies. All your compassion and support is most welcome and sorely needed. He doesn't know what to do, and I don't know how to help him. GAAAHHH! Kids! They break my heart. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

07-03-2009, 08:04 AM	#2
Alluvial Phenomenologist Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Central Mississippi Posts: 270	Recovering from a coma can take months. The family can help the medical folks by talking to the son, reading to him, clipping his nails, helping physical therapy by doing exercises etc. - little things to help stimulate his mind into waking up. Sorry to hear about the accident. __________________ “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.” - Louis Adamic

07-03-2009, 07:28 PM	#4
Aliantha trying hard to be a better person Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Brisbane, Australia Posts: 16,493	My thoughts will be with all of you V. I hope he comes out of it ok. I guess they'll know more in a few days huh? __________________ Kind words are the music of the world. F. W. Faber

07-07-2009, 01:43 PM	#5
Sheldonrs Master Dwellar Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Los Angeles, CA Posts: 4,412	Hope, thoughts and prayers from here as well. __________________ Laugh and the world laughs with you; cry and the world laughs AT you.

07-07-2009, 02:10 PM	#6
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Thank you all. I wish I had something more to share with you besides just more agonizing waiting. God. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

07-08-2009, 07:48 AM	#7
Sun_Sparkz Has Body Temperature Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I come from a land downunder Posts: 1,105	Thats really horrible. how old is he? Do you know any more about the accident? Its crazy how in a time like this - life, time and everything that mattered yesterday just stops. Hope that your friends son makes it through - your friend is lucky to have you there for him. make sure you dont hold back. __________________ We'll never be as young as we are right now

07-08-2009, 03:28 PM	#8
Queen of the Ryche is fleeing the scene Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Beautiful CO Posts: 1,510	One of my very best friend's sons fell out of a moving truck, hit the back of his skull smack on the curb. Was in a coma for three weeks - they drilled to relieve the blood/fluid pressure on his brain, then we waited. And waited. His mom would not leave the hospital. I took her lunch every day (which she hardly ate) then I would go home and cry. Then go back to the hospital to check on her, help her try to take a shower, try to get some clean clothes on her and brush her hair. And hold her. And talk to her son, even if he couldn't hear me. And read to him. And hold his hand. After three weeks that seemed like three years, he one day decided to open his eyes, and smile. He knew we had been there the whole time. He couldn't explain it, but he said he felt us there. Four years later he has a little trouble with long term memory and he can't really taste or smell much, but other than that he is a perfectly normal, fully functioning 21 year old. Don't know why I spilled this, but hope it helps in some way V...send him my love. __________________ Once, in an interview, Chuck Norris admitted that he was not the most awesome thing ever. He declined to elaborate; but I believe we all know that he was referring to the existence of chocolate covered bacon. I'd rather be judged by twelve than carried by six.

07-08-2009, 04:53 PM	#9
BigV Goon Squad Leader Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Seattle Posts: 27,063	Yes! This does help. Thank you very much. __________________ Be Just and Fear Not.

07-08-2009, 05:48 PM	#10
Griff still says videotape Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 26,813	Sorry V, I hope he pulls through. __________________ If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you. - Louis D. Brandeis

07-09-2009, 10:35 AM	#11
limey Encroaching on your decrees Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: An island within the south-west coast of Scotland Posts: 7,016	Positive thoughts and good wishes sent from over the ocean to you, your friend and families. __________________ Living it up on the edge ... of civilisation, within the southwest coast of

07-09-2009, 10:56 PM	#12
classicman barely disguised asshole, keeper of all that is holy. Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 23,401	Love, Hope and Prayer (of any kind) are the most powerful tools we have in these situations. __________________ "like strapping a pillow on a bull in a china shop" Bullitt

07-10-2009, 01:32 PM	#14
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	I never know what to say in these situations. I usually build an emotional defense up against the humanity of the situation by offering a rational analysis such as: let us ponder the miracles of modern medicine, and be thankful we aren't living in Little House on the Prarie times... __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

07-10-2009, 01:36 PM	#15
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Blessings, Love, Hope, and Luck. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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