My Dad died last year.....he fell into a coma after 5 days of hallucinations. I honestly didn't know what to say when he was in the coma; I was in shock. While he was alive, we talked about everything, but as he was close to death and in the coma, I was mostly silent. 2 days before I pulled life support, I told him how I felt, how much I loved him and how much he would be missed.
But he wasn't there. When I returned to pull the plug, the doctors had said he had no brain activity since the night I had talked to him. And pulling the plug is nothing....i repeat NOTHING like it is on TV. It was the longest 30 minutes in my life.
The brain is amazing thing. Did you know our hearing actually becomes hypersensitive when we go to sleep? There was a cool article recently posted on the phenomenon in Current Biology (title: "Circadian Regulation of Cochlear Sensitivity to Noise by Circulating Glucocorticoids")
As a nurse for 18 years I have seen things that lead me to believe people can hear far more then we give them credit for. I have seen multiple people die on the Amen of the Lord’s Prayer, people that you would not expect to have any ability to hear the prayer much less kind of just die on that exact moment. I had a patient who had 2/3’s of his head missing from a GSW as well as a GSW to the abdomen flip off a surgeon once when trying to decide if the patient should be declared brain dead. That answered that. So yes, careful what you say, hearing is the last to go.
Iamnumber6666 on October 4th, 2019 at 03:15 UTC »
My Dad died last year.....he fell into a coma after 5 days of hallucinations. I honestly didn't know what to say when he was in the coma; I was in shock. While he was alive, we talked about everything, but as he was close to death and in the coma, I was mostly silent. 2 days before I pulled life support, I told him how I felt, how much I loved him and how much he would be missed.
But he wasn't there. When I returned to pull the plug, the doctors had said he had no brain activity since the night I had talked to him. And pulling the plug is nothing....i repeat NOTHING like it is on TV. It was the longest 30 minutes in my life.
too_tired_for_this8 on October 4th, 2019 at 03:42 UTC »
:'( God, that hit me in the feels.
The brain is amazing thing. Did you know our hearing actually becomes hypersensitive when we go to sleep? There was a cool article recently posted on the phenomenon in Current Biology (title: "Circadian Regulation of Cochlear Sensitivity to Noise by Circulating Glucocorticoids")
nmd1993 on October 4th, 2019 at 05:46 UTC »
As a nurse for 18 years I have seen things that lead me to believe people can hear far more then we give them credit for. I have seen multiple people die on the Amen of the Lord’s Prayer, people that you would not expect to have any ability to hear the prayer much less kind of just die on that exact moment. I had a patient who had 2/3’s of his head missing from a GSW as well as a GSW to the abdomen flip off a surgeon once when trying to decide if the patient should be declared brain dead. That answered that. So yes, careful what you say, hearing is the last to go.