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Tuesday, 2 April 2013

Would you turn off my machine if I'm in a coma?

We were having a fabulous time in Japan last week. Coming back sitting in the wonderful business class seat feeling like a billion bucks, when I chance upon a newspaper from home. I was reading this story  about how in 2009, Suzanne Chin a healthy lawyer , mother of two was living and working in Hong Kong,  suffered a heart attack, was hospitalised in a coma and declared brain dead. The hospital doctors advised  her husband to take her off life support because there was no hope. Then, three days after she was admitted, she woke up from her coma, recovered within a week and left the hospital. Now  she is living in Singapore, still working as a lawyer,  is well, & very much alive.

This story really shook me up !!! It's a close call right? Goodness what if her husband decide to turn off the machine? What if this happen to me? I ask Celest. She said she wont mind if her family turn off her machine if it's her. She hates going back to work after our fabulous time in Japan! Which reminds me, I'll let my family know , they should at least wait for a week or so before they take me off anything!

7 comments:

  1. Read this story from the papers too! It's like a miracle !!!! Sometimes people can be in the coma for yrs!

    For me, hope they don't keep me around for too long, you get all shrunk up & awful & cost like a bomb- too tough on the family finances!

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    1. Actually I was surprise that the hospital only after such a short time ask the family to switch off life support. Lucky the husband didn't listen.
      They are Christians- God really looking after them!!!

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  2. People can go on for yrs being a vegetable!
    That'll put tremendous strain on family's finances.
    So for me, when my medisave dries up, I say..... unplug me!
    HAHAHHA....

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    1. How about unplug before medisave runs out?...lol...
      I mean if it's like a hopeless case why wait so long right? Might as well leave some money for your family.

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    2. Usually the decision is always left to the family, as the person in coma usually do not have the capability to make the decision for obvious reasons...lol...
      No one want to make that decision, is like giving out a death sentence. What if the rest blames you after that?

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    3. True... meanwhile the poor coma guy is suffering because nobody wants to take the responsibility!

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