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I am so sorry to hear about your friend. I have some
advice although our situations are a bit different. I am at T7/8 level. I
got sick from a rare type of encephalitis that inflamed my brain and spinal
cord. I woke up with a hurt back one day, went to the doctor's to have him
tell me I slept on it wrong and gave me a script for muscle relaxer's. I
went home and fell asleep on the couch and that is the last thing I
remember. I woke up in the hospital a month later. My family was
told that I would suffer from neurological damage. If I survived I would
not show any signs of recover for 6 months to a year and never be
independent. I came out of the hospital 8 months later and into my own
place and have lived on my own for 3 years so far. When I woke up
from the coma, I was paralyzed from the neck down. I was on the vent
another couple of weeks after that then also had a trach. It was so much
easier for the doctors and me. While I was on the vent, they
did x-rays every day to make sure that fluids weren't settling in
since I wasn't moving at all. I eventually got rid of the trach and have a
small scar that isn't very noticeable on my neck. Now, I am
completely independent as far as self care goes. I go to school and
getting ready to get my license since I just got a van. I know that my
story is different than your friends, but I hope that it shows you that you
can't go by what the doctors say all the time. His recovery has a lot to
do with how he handles it. If he gives up then of course it is going to
slow him down in his recovery. Let's pray he's a fighter and it seems that
he has loving people around him that will motivate him and that always
helps. I partly wanted to get better for them as well as myself. I
will say a prayer for all of you and you now know where we are so ask away if
you have any questions. We'll be here waiting for him when he gets
better.
Good luck with everything,
Stacy
P.S. It's funny you mentioned the monitors
spiking. My Mom said mine did she told me a certain person would be
visiting or when my roommate was in the room singing some stupid song she knows
I hate and she has a god awful voice. It's weird how we react when
unconscious.
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