The coma is scary

Patients with leukemia, flowing into coma, do not lie without movement and in oblivion. To breathe, they need not only Ivl devices, but often a special device - oxygenator

We help oxygen starvation collected 1,752 140 r required 1,750,000 r

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Lena Potapova gave birth to a third child with a Caesarean section. Caesarean section, since at the thirtieth week of pregnancy it turned out that dizziness and shortness of breath are not from a large abdomen and not from excess weight. This is from blood cancer.

Lena went to the antenatal clinic to complain, barely got a lot of it, and there they did a blood test and the doctor with frightened eyes said: cancer.

In the Balashikhinsky Perinatal Center was also a doctor with frightened eyes. Resuscitation manager. She sat, without leaving Lenin's bed, midnight, and when an ambulance arrived to take Lena to the hematological center, the doctor went with Lena on an ambulance.

Lena sits on the bed under a dropper photo: Andrey Lyubimov for TD

With such blood indicators, with such coagulation and with such hemoglobin, there could be no question of giving birth to herself. And here is a cesarean. Lena put a dropper, and she fell asleep. She did not see how they cut her stomach, pulled out of the baby’s stomach to take away somewhere.

But Lena remembers how, after the operation, the doctor approached her and began to shave her head. Lena had all his feelings very sharpened. While the doctor Bril, Lena heard a metal smell. So the knives of the hairdresser smelled, because they rubbed against each other.

Having finished shaving, the doctor began to put Lena in the throat of the plastic pipe. The tube was very long and confusing, its elastic rings occupied their entire possible place in the throat and mouth. Lena felt a sharp taste of plastic. It turns out that plastic has a taste.

With this pipe in the throat, the doctor took Lena into the corridor, but he was not taken to the ward, but to some hall. Something like a museum hall. There were a lot of people there. Not only doctors, not only medical students, but just visitors. Lena lay, unable to move, like an exhibit in the museum, and people went around and stared at her, her shaved head, a cut belly and a plastic pipe in the throat.

Each person in the crowd had a smell. Lena was distinguished by what perfumes every woman smells of, what a lotion every man. How the backpacks and bags smell in people.

In this crowd around Lena saw her three -year -old daughter Sonya. The girl folded her hands on her chest and built a silent face, like a cat from a cartoon about Shrek, as if asking for something, and Lena could not understand what.

Lena stands by the window in the corridor of the hospital photo: Andrey Lyubimov for TD

Suddenly, one of the doctors grabbed the girl and ran with her. The girl first froze with fear, and then began to cry. Lena wanted to shout that she was kidnapped by a child, but because of a tube in her throat she could not scream. I wanted to run after the kidnapper, but I could not get up. She could only look after the doctors who faster the girl faster along the corridor to the open doors, behind them, was waiting for an ominous car with an intended engine. Lena felt the smell of exhaust gases.

Lying motionless, Lena frantically thought how to say to doctors so that they would not take her daughter. Anything, just not a daughter. Maybe write them a note? Lena thought that she could write a note, but her hands did not obey her, and she only felt the smell of a felt -tip pen that she could write if her hands had obeyed.

Suddenly an obscure shadow hung over Lena. Lena focused her gaze and realized that the shadow is a sister's face. Not a nurse, but her, Lena, her sister. Sister smiled.

- Where is Sonya? - Lena tried to shout, but the scream did not work out, it turned out a whisper.

- What does Sonya mean? Grandmother Sonya has.

- She was stolen!

“Quietly, no one stole anyone.” You probably dreamed. You were in a coma for twenty days, on the artificial ventilation of the lungs, you know?

Lena Potapova lies on her bed after a dropper and watches TV photo: Andrey Lyubimov for TD

Little by little, life circumstances began to clear up. Lena remembered how she got here, and realized that all these nightmares were dreamed of. There was no hall, no glazing public. No one abducted the daughter. No one inserted the pipe into the throat. However, no, the phone was probably inserted, otherwise it would be connected to the apparatus of artificial ventilation of the lungs? And probably not shaved? ..

The door to the ward opened, and Lenin's husband entered. “Probably not shared,” Lena thought. And she said to her husband: "Give me a comb." He smiled: "Why do you need a comb?"

Lena raised her hand and touched her head. The head was shaved. Lena smiled too.

Lena Potapova photo: Andrey Lyubimov for TD

Now, from Lena, I know that in a coma people do not lie insensibly until doctors conjure them to return them to life. People in a coma have nightmares. Lena says there are so nightmares that they are more clearly than reality. With these nightmares, nothing can be done.

The Fund for the fight against leukemia, which is engaged in the help of adult patients with blood cancer, collects money for an oxygenator for the resuscitation department of the hematological center, where Lena was lying. Oxygenator is a device that enriches the blood of a patient in intensive care with oxygen.

Lena, fortunately, this device will not be needed, she was “ painted ” with the help of the Ivl apparatus. But if it needed, Lena would not have got out of her nightmare. This device does not help from nightmares. It helps from death. If you throw yourself, sacrifice who can be as much as it can.

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