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  • About Me

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    aleefrank

    Female, 22
    Greenville, NC, USA
    Member since September 15

    • About Me

      My mother has been in a "vegetative state" since June 2, 2009 and I need a support group to get through this. Starting to feel alone. I don't know how helpful this website will be, but I am trying anything now. All of you will know my secrets that I dont share with many people. I do not talk about MY own medical problems, but maybe this will help me. Primarily, I just need help getting through my mothers coma.... please help

      My mother has been in a "vegetative state" since June 2, 2009 and I need a support group to get through this. Starting to feel alone. I don't know how helpful this website will be, but I am trying anything now. All of you will know my secrets that I dont share with many people. I do not talk about MY own medical problems, but maybe this will help me. Primarily, I just need help getting through my mothers coma.... please help

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    • Step Dad is being deployed

      Mood October 21, 2009 9:23am

      I am so scared as everyday passes. I hate this life that I am going through. I love so strongly and it hurts so much.

       

      As an update of where we …

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    • I’m With You

      From Bill08 October 25

      It took Donna about 2 months before she started to respond. But every person is different. These are things I did with Donna through out, and still do. As things begain we just prayed all the time. I hope this helps you. God Bless you, Bill

    • Prayer

      From Requiem21 October 22

      I understand your pain, your fear, your grief and the strange way that you mind works when it is under this kind of pressure.
      Hang in there....there isn't any choice.

    • Prayer

      From Bill08 October 17

      Alee,
      My name is Bill. My wife Donna was in a car accident with 3 of my children April 4th 2008. What I have done is this. First I prayed, and read the word of God constantly. I asked all my friends and anyone that would listen to me to pray hard. I have an email list of about 300 people. I send out email updates once a week. I am always rallying the troops and asking them to keep Donna in prayer. I am giving her constant stimalation. Like music,TV,readind God's word to her. Reading her favorite books to her. Smells of differant kinds of front of her nose.We tell her all the time that we love her. Kissing her and telling her you are there. Move her arms and legs and fingers all the time. Spastisity will set in. It is real important to move all parts of her body constantly. Obviously if she has a broken leg or arm don't move it. God is the only one who can heal your mom. Pray and pray hard all the time. Take time for yourself. Do not push to hard. I learn to hard way about that. I all most went nuts. Panic attacks, depression and so on. So take time for yourself. Get your mom to Jesus. Here is a scripture about so guys that brought their friend to Jesus. Jesus healed that man, he was healed because of the faith his friends had.

      Mark 2:1-5

      Jesus Heals a Paralytic

      1A few days later, when Jesus again entered Capernaum, the people heard that he had come home. 2So many gathered that there was no room left, not even outside the door, and he preached the word to them. 3Some men came, bringing to him a paralytic, carried by four of them. 4Since they could not get him to Jesus because of the crowd, they made an opening in the roof above Jesus and, after digging through it, lowered the mat the paralyzed man was lying on. 5When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Son, your sins are forgiven."

      God bless you,

      Bill

    • Prayer

      From Requiem21 September 30

      The thing is, that doctors don't know. They can guess. I think that if a family agrees to let a person just die, then it absolves them of the issue of not knowing. The brain is an amazing thing, it can heal itself in ways that no human can begin to understand. I think that we just need to surround these people with positive thoughts, energy and prayers and let God, and the brain, do what it has to do.
      As long as a person is alive, there has to be hope.

    • I’m With You

      From Requiem21 September 29

      I am so sorry that your mom is in a coma. I wish I could say that better times will come, but that is something that no one knows. I don't think that one should ever give up hope, but I know, that you can sure feel like that time can come.
      My husband was in his coma for about 2 months, he was so slow in coming out of it, that I can't really pinpoint when it occured. Nothing is ever like the books, and no one can predict anything. It leaves your life up in the air, I know. I do know that the doctors all told me to let my husband die. They said that chances of him coming out of the coma were very slim. So, we know that they sure don't even come close to knowing what goes on in the brain. I can just say, 'hang in there', it won't be easy, but the thing is, you never know. Wonderful things can happen and you have to stay open to that.

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    • Close Coma

      My mother is 41 years old and has been in a coma/ "vegetative state" since June 2, 2009. Doctors cannot figure out why or how it happened. She just stopped breathing for approximately 8 minutes and has severe brain damage. We have started home care and take care of her as best we can. I just cannot live without my mom in my life right now.

    • Close Depression
      Type: Clinical (Major) Depression

      My mother has been in a coma since June 2, 2009 and I am finding it harder and harder to handle it.

    • Open Brain Injury

      Mom is in a coma due to an anoxic brain injury

    • Open Prolactinoma

      diagnosed with Pituitary tumor in 2005

      Treatments

      Dostinex Somewhat Helpful
      This drug doesn't really do anything for me. So Doctors say that it "stable" which just means that its no longer growing.
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