I feel you. Highly intelligent; technical job. My concussion was also classified as mild because concussions are measured on the Glasgow Coma Scale. The test result should be NT not testable and the total score doesn't include eyes assessment.
My husband was in a motorcycle accident, he was thrown from his bike he was not helmeted, he had gave his helmet to a passenger. Well he was GCS 3. The severity of his injury was so bad that he had 3 hemorrhages which was non-operable The neurologist advised us that his prognosis was very poor.
He had 5CT Scans with no change. He was swelling on day 2, the family decided without me to take him off the ventilator.. I just got his medical records and read through them I believe if he lasted 9hrs before he passed, if they only left him on for a week to really see if there would be any changes, but because the swelling was so severe and they could not relieve the swelling the family decided to take him off.
He had an hemorrhagic stroke as well and some brain bleed. Keep us in your prayers if you can. I am sorry for your loss. My year-old cousin is in a deep coma, GCS 3. She is also on a ventilator and has no response to light, pain or anything. Her brain has swollen due to homerrhage and had 2 cardiac arrests in the same day.
Doctors said her condition is inoperable and that she may die any minute. We are very devastated and hope that she will wake up one day. I am a motorcycle rider as well. It makes me so sad to read this. So sorry for your loss! Stay strong! Greetings from Austria, Wick. So sorry that happened to you Rebecca. My son was hit by a car Dec.
Drs said I need to put him in a care home where he can age safely and securely We could not accept that. As a family we did every possible thing to help him recover I stayed in that province for almost a year. Every time he made a bit of progress the dr would say that was coincidence or that's all he will be able to do. I took over his complete care so he wouldn't be a burden on the nurses as I was scared they were going to xfer him to a care home. Almost one year later Corey walked out of that hospital with the exact same personality he had before..
He will always have to live with us as the accident left him with short term memory loss and some cognitive impairments so he's on disability but his sight came back after about a year!
We also weaned him off all the antipsychotic medications they had him on Everyone out there.. Thank you, I needed to hear this. I have faith, but it's hard to keep that up all the time. I scream, I cry, I have a breakdown every day on my way home from the hospital. So thank you, I really needed these words.
Thank you for sharing. I almost died 4 years ago. Slipped and fractured skull, I remember hearing the sound of ocean waves and knew I was dying. I lived alone and remained unconscious for 4 days. I felt as just what you said - the doctors arent god and I was alive by a miracle. It was incredibly difficult to do but foods and herbs helped. But after I woke I had vomiting, dizziness, hearing problems, eyesight issues. My hair sheds out a lot today and I still have a soft spot where my skull fractured.
I have a touch of dyslexia and have a hard time concentrating on reading but I knew I survived by a miracle and am back to myself but actually more improved. I believe something saved me so I could fulfill a purpose. I hope you will believe me when I say it's best not to dwell on the "what ifs. I worked in an ICU and saw some people recover from horrible injuries, but most did not.
If they weren't able to relieve the pressure on his brain, he would have herniated and the results would be the same. I have seen that there are worse things than death, from work and in my own life. My grandfather lived in a miserable state for 20 years after he survived being taken off the ventilator. He had a stroke after a brain aneurysm repair at 58 years old, so he lived with the damage from the stroke for all of that time.
He was confined to a wheelchair, then bedridden for the last 3 years of his life. He only knew my grandmother, my mom, and his 3 other children. I felt like I lost my grandfather the day he went into the hospital for the aneurysm repair. My sister was flown by helicopter after being found unresponsive in her recliner at home.
She had been there for 3 days. We still don't know what happened, I have suspicions about her odd neighbors since she had some trauma to her head on both sides, not something that would happen if she had fallen before sitting in her recliner. Her MRI was terrible. She had suffered a stroke or lack of oxygen to her brain, or both, they weren't sure, she was only 46 years old.
Her brain was swelling, and she didn't respond to anything. I noticed she began to posture, which indicates severe brain damage. I knew that even if she survived and could breathe on her own, she would be in a vegetative state. We decided to take her off of the ventilator. It was 13 hours before she finally passed. I feel we made the right decision, but I wish I knew what had happened to her.
I don't know why you weren't the one making the decisions since the spouse is the next of kin and I don't like it when physicians tell people that the person will pass away quickly, it's unrealistic to predict such things. More often than not, it takes longer if the person isn't absolutely brain dead. Neuropsychological Assessments Next.
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The total score is calculated by adding up the scores from the different categories, shown in the tables below, and ranges from a minimum of 3 to a maximum of The degree and duration of a coma are helpful indicators of the severity of a brain injury , and taken in conjunction with the length of time a person is experiencing post-traumatic amnesia , can indicate the likely prognosis for an individual.
Information about coma, as well as other reduced awareness states such as minimally conscious state, vegetative state and locked-in syndrome. See the factors that can influence how severe a brain injury is, and the potential for long-term effects. Post-traumatic amnesia PTA is the time after a period of unconsciousness when the injured person is conscious and awake, but is behaving or talking in a bizarre or uncharacteristic manner.
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