Grandma stopped responding

[manlymatt83]

My grandma has been in a rehabilitation unit for a few months now. Apparently, just a bit ago, she was normal, and all of a sudden just stopped responding to anyone. Her eyes are open, but she just stares at the ceiling, and isn't talking/responding to anyone's touch, etc. The doctor thinks she had a major stroke, but she is breathing on her own.

Anyone know much about this kind of stuff? I'm beginning to think whatever happened isn't reversible. I'm glad I got to see her last weekend. How long do people tend to last in this state?

 

[Mxylplyx]

Same thing happened to my wifes grandmother a few years ago, though she slipped into that state in her sleep, so eyes were closed. Pay your last respects, because there is little chance she will come out of it. Your family will probably decide to make her comfortable and let her pass, at which point the nurses will start withholding food and water, and give her morphine patches to alleviate any perceived pain while her body shuts down and eventually passes.

Stay strong my friend.

 

[Azraele]

My great grandmother had something similar happen. She was talking one minute, and the next she was unresponsive, but breathing and sitting up. She had indeed, had a stroke. She recovered from that one, but she had to live in a nursing home, and she was never really the same. She died a few years later.

I hope your grandma feels better soon. My thoughts are with her and your family.

 

[Mxylplyx]

Same thing happened to my wifes grandmother a few years ago, though she slipped into that state in her sleep, so eyes were closed. Pay your last respects, because there is little chance she will come out of it. Your family will probably decide to make her comfortable and let her pass, at which point the nurses will start withholding food and water, and give her morphine patches to alleviate any perceived pain while her body shuts down and eventually passes.

Stay strong my friend.

ps, once they withhold treatment, she'll probably pass within 48hrs.

 

[manlymatt83]

ps, once they withhold treatment, she'll probably pass within 48hrs.

OK, thanks. I'm in Boston and she's in Jersey, but I saw her a few days ago when I was last home.

I don't know if I want to see her in this state, really. I'm still deciding.

But I know they decided not to do any sort of "treatment", so they aren't feeding her, etc. if she can't do it on her own.

 

[CurseTheSky]

Good luck to her and the family, and God bless. Sorry to hear it.

 

[SunnyD]

Stroke?

 

[DesiPower]

I have heard about this before.. Its kind of a stroke if I am not mistaken, part of the barin goes dead, someone I knew after being in rehab for a while was OK but could not speak or cummunicate at all, forgot to read and write too... stay strong my friend.

 

[manlymatt83]

Thanks folks.

 

[dmcowen674]

So sorry Matt

 

[Spikesoldier]

Yeah take a couple of days off and be with your grandmother. She doesn't have long.

GL

 

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[BurnItDwn]

My grandfather had something like this happen to him a couple of times. He recovered and lived comfortably a few more years at home enjoying his hobbies and my grandma's awesome cooking.

It may have been an anomaly, we were all expecting him to pass at the time, but he simply wasn't ready to.

I wish your grandma and your family the best of luck. In times like this, always make sure you've got a shoulder to cry on no matter how manly you may be.

Grandparents are awesome.

I miss my grandpa. I miss him so very very much.

 

[Jeffg010]

Same thing happened to my wifes grandmother a few years ago, though she slipped into that state in her sleep, so eyes were closed. Pay your last respects, because there is little chance she will come out of it. Your family will probably decide to make her comfortable and let her pass, at which point the nurses will start withholding food and water, and give her morphine patches to alleviate any perceived pain while her body shuts down and eventually passes.

Stay strong my friend.

What is the difference between this and what Dr Kevorkian did?

 

[Red Squirrel]

This reminds me, I need to visit my great grandma more often. Soon she wont be with us. She's pretty tough though, she could make it to 100. She's like 91-92 now.

 

[brainhulk]

My grandma has been in a rehabilitation unit for a few months now. Apparently, just a bit ago, she was normal, and all of a sudden just stopped responding to anyone. Her eyes are open, but she just stares at the ceiling, and isn't talking/responding to anyone's touch, etc. The doctor thinks she had a major stroke, but she is breathing on her own.

Anyone know much about this kind of stuff? I'm beginning to think whatever happened isn't reversible. I'm glad I got to see her last weekend. How long do people tend to last in this state?

sorry to hear that. I don't know if this is of any consolation but if you guys could have gotten her to the emergency room as soon as she presented with symptoms, they could have given her drugs to break the clot if it was an ischemic stroke

 

[manlymatt83]

sorry to hear that. I don't know if this is of any consolation but if you guys could have gotten her to the emergency room as soon as she presented with symptoms, they could have given her drugs to break the clot if it was an ischemic stroke

She was in a nursing home, so we weren't really around her.