Each day I carried Condemned to die to a Dr.s office, anxious to have my time to read. For me it is not a book to just read. With your's and Brenna's Love and laughter, sorrow and tears, were ours. I breathed and lived many, if not most of the exact moments you went through. That in itself, broke my heart for you. I relived so many moments through this precious book, to numerous to count!
Each person has their own story. The medical was very much the same. My husband, Mack suffered a full cardiac arrest while driving, vomit, aspirated all into his lungs. Went 1 hour 20 minutes without oxygen. I fought to get him intubated (On life support) Fought to not let them take him off. He was not given the treatment others were given for Anoxic Brain Injury because he went such a great length of time. What I did get was a Medical Power of Attorney. Though they said I didn't need it while he was in the hospital. He did after 8 days fight to come out of the PVS. And they tried to force me to put him into a Nursing home with One RN per 60 patients for Rehab. I resisted and took him home.
We invented our own therapy. When they quit coming out. Mack stopped thinking he was Donald Duck, and hallucinating. He progressively healed. He can now walk, hold a conversation, he can drink, (without thickner agents) laugh, he can read, tell jokes, and recently held his first conversation on politics! And He was suppose to be dead. Then brain dead, Then in a coma, then PVS, ect.... They just don't know. There is so much they don't know. God know's. All life is so precious, every single breath. When he (Mack) was able to talk, he told us the things we did, said , asked us questions about that time.. But he was dead.. then PVS , they said so..
Thank You Pam for finishing the book... You will alway's have our Love, Prayers, and Admiration,
Alway's and Forever, Mack, Kelly, Josh, Shane and Shelby Culpepper
