Not sure where to post this but my elderly parent is in an induced coma in an attempt to control the continuous seizures they have been having for the last day and a half. My other parent is 80 years old and actually told the doctor that they aren't able to take on board the information the staff have been giving them. My niece is a 5th year student doctor and was with my parent at the time and she also asked if another family member could be given updates but this was refused. So my 80 year old parent was phoned at 7am yesterday morning instead of 9.30am as they were promised and told that my other parent was being put in an induced coma to "rest their brain". My niece was told on Sunday that they would try for 24 to 48 hours to stop the seizures. Yet no one is allowed to visit my parent in the ICU today and a family discussion is only supposed to happen on Friday. There are a lot of other things that happened before my parent was eventually transferred to the ICU but my question is why no one can visit my parent today when they are dying and why should we wait until they have been seizing for 5 full days before a DNR is discussed. Apologies for the long post but I'm a bit all over the shop at the minute.