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| | Post New Topic | | Motivational Monday | Views: 84 | | Oct 04, 2009 8:11 pm | | Motivational Monday | # | 
Barbara Haynes | | Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: If you're alive it isn't.
- Richard Bach (Illusions)
Remember that book? That is one of my favorite books. Back in the 70's, I was visiting a 27 year old comatose friend in the hospital. I was running out of things to say to her, so I thought I'd read Illusions. Sitting by her hospital bed, the bars were up and while reading, she reached between the bars to my bent head and patted me on the head 3 times. I called the nurse. Guess what the nurse said, "it was a reflex." That was no reflex. Karen heard me and she thanked me by patting my head!
Private Reply to Barbara Haynes | | Oct 05, 2009 10:11 am | | re: Motivational Monday | # | 
Susan Graves | | Barbara
I love Richard Bach's books. Yes, I have Illusions.
I watched my brother lay in a coma for a few weeks and I know he heard us.
The doctors told us to bring in a radio and play his favorite station and
to decorate above his bed with photos and things he would know when he woke up.
Every time I went in the room I had to change the station, because the nurses would
change the station. But he made signs, he gave the nurse the finger one day -
that was no reflex - she was giving him a needle.
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Private Reply to Susan Graves | | Oct 05, 2009 7:28 pm | | re: re: Motivational Monday | # |
Barbara Haynes | | Awwwww, that is cute about your brother. They say that people in comas do hear, just don't respond, but we know that is not true. My friend did come out of the coma, but died 3 years later. She was a vegetable; her brain burned from 108 degree temp. She had dental work and got menengitis and 3 hospitals emergency rooms told her her headaches were just nerves. The family got a lot of money, but much sadness followed. Soon, the children lost both Mom and Dad.
Private Reply to Barbara Haynes | | Oct 06, 2009 6:39 pm | | re: re: re: Motivational Monday | # | 
Eileen Brown | | I had a very similar experience with Russ. He had a brain
aneurysm that burst in 1997. After the initial surgery he
was unresponsive for a couple of weeks. Then, they told me
he would never learn to talk, walk, or do anything for
himself again, that he would just be a vegetable.
How WRONG they ALL were. If we listen to doctor's who
really DON'T know what any given outcome can be, we'd all
be lost. Yes, his brain damage was terribly severe, but
during that first three months I began to see signs that he
was in there... THEY did not believe me. "Reflex" must be
a pat answer for doctors and nurses!
Russ turned out to be a "miracle man" for many doctors.
They could not believe he could come back from a grade IV
bleed directly into his brain.
It took two years to learn to walk again, almost one year
to speak on demand/command. He was feeding himself after
one year completely. They truly don't know how much a
person can come back... as most people would have put him
in a care home and left him there.
I read to him everyday, did put pictures everywhere, all
the things they told me to do plus more. The human spirit
can be so strong that "miracles" do happen...
I could always see him struggling to communicate with me
when I was reading to him. It was very subtle, but it was
there... someday doctors will have to believe us when we
tell them we are seeing responses, eh?
There is one picture of Russ on my Ryze page with his
walker just after he learned to walk again.
Eileen :D
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Private Reply to Eileen Brown | | Oct 07, 2009 1:39 am | | re: re: re: re: Motivational Monday | # |
Barbara Haynes | | What a beautiful story Eileen and God Bless Russ and God Bless you for being there for him in such a special time of need! Yes, miracles do happen.
My nephew was 3 yrs old when my brother and his wife left OH for AZ so that my nephew could know his Grandpa because his Grandpa was terminal COPD. Just as they were about to leave, Ray developed a lump on his neck, the doc said she thought it was a swollen gland, but if it got worse to see a doctor in AZ. It took a week to get to AZ due to car trouble. By that time, the lump was like a baseball. They went directly to the hospital. The docs said they needed to remove the mass and send it to the lab, but removal could cause paralysis. It did not! Miracle #1. After removal, the docs said to come back in 3 weeks, but Ray started swelling. The lab results indicated non Hodgkins lymphoma. His kidneys had huge tumors. He was rushed to a hospital for dialysis, but they didn't have children's dialysis, so he was rushed to a University hospital. There they started pumping blood from Ray's stomach, his BP was 200/150, he was in a straigt jacket due to seizures; they put methotrexate up his spine because his brain was the only place he did not have cancer. Ray was going in and out. He was stepping over to the other side and one day he said, "Mom and Dad, I might have to leave you, I might have to go away." I told Ray to hold on to fight it and to not go away, that he could overcome it. People were praying for him from California to New York...complete strangers. At one point, the doctors called the family together and said it was only a matter of hours, they did all they could for Ray and that Ray was going to die. Nine hours later, Ray sat up in his straight jacket and said, "GET ME OUT OF HERE!" From that day on, He went UP, UP, and UP! Thirty days later, he was transfered to a step down unit, then he soon left the hospital and the only tumors left were in his liver. Miracle #2. The doctors carried him to the car with tears streaming down their faces because Ray was a miracle, he was supose to die! A nurse named Barbara said they see lots of problems with children and when they see another bad situation, they will pull Ray's chart and renew their faith! A year after leaving the hospital, Ray was pronounced in "Remission." Mircle #3. That was thirty-two years ago...Ray remains in remission! Miracle #4. My brother had quit his job before leaving OH, thus did not have medical insurance. The hospital told him to go to the "crippled children's foundation" and apply for help. The Cripped Children's Foundation paid 100% of the bills. Miracle #5. When my brother's company heard about Ray's problem, they reinstated his medical insurance and paid back the Crippled Children's Foundation 100%. Miracle #6! Oh, Thank you Father! I am still so grateful. I am one of 5 children and we had the mumps, chicken pox, measles, etc. I did not know that little children suffer so until I spent all that time in the hospital with Ray and saw children dying.
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