We built this web space for the purpose of sharing information about a deadly condition called: Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation. It occured after a cesearean section. My wife was in a coma for 5 and 1/2 days afterwards and still suffers many serious complications including Ashermans Syndrome, and serious respiratory complications including Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome.
While in the recovery room, something went terribly wrong. I was waiting in another room when a nurse came in to get me. She said that I was needed because something was going wrong. As I entered the recovery room, I found my wife flailing her arms and legs uncontrollably. The bed was covered in blood. There were many people in the room but it all seemed blurred and unreal.
I tried to console and calm her as they were trying to hold her down.She was incoherent. She went code blue and I was removed from the room.
I could not believe what just happened, tears started flowing as I was panicking. I prayed for her, I cried for her. I had to make a telephone call to her parents. My voice could barely mutter the words. I said You have to get here, I think my wife is dieing. Then the gurney with my wife on it rushed past outwards to the elevator, as many people worked on my wife. I wanted to follow with them but the nurses pushed me back and told me to give them room to work, there was nothing I could do. I watched helplessly, but I prayed in fear.
I waited outside for her parents. It was morning now. My voice trembeled as I told them while my eyes wept a small river. We all went into the main hospital and started asking questions. My memory of all the events after blurr together in an unreal pastel of dark colors.
I remebere being in the ICU unit and looking at my wife. There were tubes everywhere. Monitors and beeping sounds were blaring in the room. The doctors told us she was in a coma. She had gone code blue twice. They will still unsure what had happened. They were pumping blood in, but it was coming out as fast as they could pump it. The doctors talking started sounding as if they were in a tunnel. The beeping started to make my head and heart pound. I could not stand it anymore. I had to leave, there was nothing I could do but pray. I told her parents that I had to go home, I needed a break and some sleep, I had almost no sleep for over 28 hours.
I remember driving home shaking, my heart pounding, I could not get the picture out of my head. I was home in our empty apartment, it was silent and I felt detached from all reality. I prayed for her before I laid down. When I awoke, I realized this was not a nightmare. I called my family, got a shower, and drove back to the hospital. This was the first day of a five day nightmare.
My wife suffered a condition called disseminated intravascular coagulation
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By the Grace of God and Jesus Christ is my wife alive today. She may suffer many complications, but the blood of Jesus was shed so that we all may be saved eternally. That faith sustains us throughout the pain, the financial burdens, and the complications. Praise Jesus Christ.
