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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Elko, NV
Posts: 21
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Junior Member
Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Elko, NV
Posts: 21
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Hey Mark,
I've been away for awhile. We are trying to figure out why my son keeps blacking out....but they can't find a reason why.
I can understand you are having a rough, painful time and being strong and brave for everyone seems very difficult to always maintain for everyone. As the mom, I can't feel yours or my son's pain, but I can feel the heartbreak and the sadness. I sometimes have to fake the everything is going to be fine attitude until I have the strength to actually believe it.
But you have an inner strength which I have seen in your posts and I have relied upon this strength. You have hit a rough patch, but you are STRONG and you can do this. Let me be her for you, just as you have been here for me. Together we can see this through.
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September 16, 2011 my son collapsed on the football field due to a subdural hematoma. He was life flighted to the hospital where they did emergency surgery. At first the DR said that he thought everything would be fine. Then his brain started swelling three days later, he had midline shift to the right side cavity and then the brain herniated onto the brain stem. They did not think he would make it. They stabilized until family could come. After family got there, he began to stabilize. We were counseled to "let him go" because the brain damage would be extensive. We chose life. He was in a coma for 48 days and then a vegetative state for another 58 days. He was considered semi-conscious Jan. 5, 2012. It is now July 2013. He has no short term memory, still is now walking with a walker, and has issues with expressive language, and is incontinent.
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Last edited by supermansmom; 08-29-2013 at 10:31 PM.
Reason: read post wrong gave bad advise based on wrong understanding.
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