Just needed somewhere to let some steam off I guess. My grandmother has been in the hospital, with a 2 day stop in assisted living, since the day after Christmas. She went in with shingles and now this morning she flat lined and this is all after the overnight doctor said she may be good enough to release back to assisted living 2 days ago! I just don't know how to feel right now. My 6 year old son and 2 year old daughter are always with her and she LOVES them. She was crying in the hospital just the other night about not seeing them for nearly a month and a half. I would have brought them up there but shingles are very contagious and my wife and I both had the Flu. I just feel like she is giving up because she couldn't see her best friends.
But I am confused regarding your Grandmother's medical condition. Correct me if I am wrong here, she went into the hospital due to shingles? Oh by the way, shingles is less contagious than chickenpox so unless your children never had the chickenpox vaccine, they couldn't catch it from their Great-Grandmother. Shingles heal in 4 weeks which would mean your Grandmother should have left the hospital the end of last month. Why was she kept for another month?
As for the recent heart stopping and now being on a ventilator, did the doctor indicate what caused that? Is she able to communicate? Is she awake?
I hope she recovers soon and is back at her home.
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When my father was in a medically induced coma, I sang to him and played his favorite CDs on a portable CD player. He was connected to a brain monitoring machine (I don't remember the name of it), so I watched the patterns of his brain when I sang or played music. The ICU nurses told me he was definitely responding to music.