mtnairlover
Mon Jan 19th, 2009, 08:15 PM
Imagine if you will, sleeping in bed with your SO by your side. At about 2 a.m. you are awakened by your SO who complains he hasn't been able to sleep for hours. You're groggy and just want to sleep, so you tell him whatever possible in order to hit slumber-land again.
A couple of hours goes by and you are awakened to what you think is snoring from your SO. You nudge to get him to stop...nothing...so, you nudge harder and tell him to knock it off...still nothing and the sound he's making actually seems real strange. You roll over and turn on the light and there he is struggling for air. You rush into action and try to provide assisted breathing, but you can't because his jaw is clenched shut. YOu call for your teenage daughter to call 911 and she comes in to help you figure out a way to get him to breath. He starts turning purple and you can't find his pulse. The EMTs show up and try to resuscitate, but can't, so they pull out the defibrillator and after three tries, the pulse is back and they've got him intubated to help him breathe. Blood is all over the place because of the struggle to open the trachea. You then rush to the hospital and test after test, you are told that your SO...a man in his mid-40s, all 5feet 11inches and 165 pounds worth, career Army man is in heart failure.
That's what happened last night to my sis-in-law's (my late brother's widow) boyfriend of 8 years.
I know all too well the feeling of helplessness in not being able to do a damn thing to save someone's life, but some positive thoughts would go a long way to letting him know people are pulling for him. So this is my request.
A couple of hours goes by and you are awakened to what you think is snoring from your SO. You nudge to get him to stop...nothing...so, you nudge harder and tell him to knock it off...still nothing and the sound he's making actually seems real strange. You roll over and turn on the light and there he is struggling for air. You rush into action and try to provide assisted breathing, but you can't because his jaw is clenched shut. YOu call for your teenage daughter to call 911 and she comes in to help you figure out a way to get him to breath. He starts turning purple and you can't find his pulse. The EMTs show up and try to resuscitate, but can't, so they pull out the defibrillator and after three tries, the pulse is back and they've got him intubated to help him breathe. Blood is all over the place because of the struggle to open the trachea. You then rush to the hospital and test after test, you are told that your SO...a man in his mid-40s, all 5feet 11inches and 165 pounds worth, career Army man is in heart failure.
That's what happened last night to my sis-in-law's (my late brother's widow) boyfriend of 8 years.
I know all too well the feeling of helplessness in not being able to do a damn thing to save someone's life, but some positive thoughts would go a long way to letting him know people are pulling for him. So this is my request.