As soon as they got to the emergency room, Sarah was taken into an exam room. Ryan was not allowed to be with her.
This is where it gets very confusing. Sarah was left alone in the room. We don't know for how long. What we do know is that at some point she vomited and apparently aspirated some of the vomitus. She went into cardiac and respiratory arrest. They had to use the paddles to resuscitate her heart plus she had to be intubated and hooked up to a ventilator. It took several attempts to get the tube in because her trachea was so tight.
Sarah had been deprived of oxygen for enough time to cause severe brain damage. They transferred her to the intensive care unit and could not give her any medication at that time because they were assessing her condition and did not want to mask any of the symptoms. Ryan was now able to be with her and was holding her hand for the next 4 hours. Unfortunately, because of the brain injury, she was having seizures at the rate of one every thirty seconds to one minute. That poor boy had to witness the woman he loved going through this hell. This is what we knew when we got into our car and made the 5 hour trip to Minneapolis from our home in Wisconsin. The entire drive all we could think of was how this was all a horrible mistake and that it was only a matter of time until Sarah began to recover.