Talking to someone in a coma

[Joseph]

Mitzi, that's some vauable information you gave Jake. I always wondered if someone not awake or in a coma could hear or remember what was going on around them at that time. It's good to know that some one can remember even know there not conscience. I always wondered about that. THANKS. Hope all goes well with your son and will be praying for him like all of us will.

[Mitzi]

He remembers quite bit, not all of it. He said he thought I was an angel takling to him at one time. He said he was very glad I didn't talk to him ALL the time because he remember wanting some pece and quiet. But, he could hear. He recognized his Dad's voice immediately.

[klar]

YEs it is interesting what a mind can recall when in a coma or even asleep. Sometimes you can tell a person things in their sleep and they will do it the next day. While this is a hit or miss science it has been proven to work on occassion but it is not fool proof. SO ladies do not tell that guy to go out and get you a nice diamond on valentines day because it may not work but then again it may LOL

Klar

[156]

I think it's very important to always talk to and touch anyone who's in a coma. Many times they're hooked up to equipment that makes them unable to respond but they need to know someone is there.

A week before my daddy died, he was in a coma for a couple of days. I talked to him and held his hand. He came out of the coma and I asked him if he knew I had been there and he said he did. The next day he got worse, went into another coma and then died a few days later. I was there until the very end talking to him the whole time and telling him it was okay to go. I feel certain he heard me.

[Stump]

156, that gave me tears in my eyes.
I remember a week before my Grandma died. She was in a coma, and when I was talking to her, I remember seeing her mouth move like she was trying to talk, but didn't have the energy to make a sound. I am convinced she heard me, although I will never know because she never woke up.

[Rita]

My mother, who had cancer, slipped into unconscienceness a few hours before she died. Everyone had to leave the hospital and agreed to meet back in one hour. I have every belief that she knew that we were there, talking to her and holding her hands. I also believe that she knew that everyone who could get there was there, what a hard time it was on us and knew that it was finally ok for her to "go home" because she waited until all of the family was gone before she died. It was still hard but I don't know if I could have handled it as well if I was there when it happened. I have been around death all of my life (my father was a funeral director and at one time we lived in the funeral home)so it affets me differently than most people, but when it is "one of your own" it's quite anohter story.

[156]

Rita and Stump, I'm glad you were able to be there. It sounds like both of them knew what was going on and who was there, even though they couldn't verbally respond. The hearing was still intact.

[klppage]

My cousin has been in an auto accident related coma (termed "unresponsive") for almost 10 yrs now. I go in to see her and she starts kicking her leg and grinning at me. I know in my heart she knows I'm there and I keep telling her we'll go out for pizza when she gets her butt out of bed... lol. You have to keep them motivated as much as yourself.