My poor 62 year old dad is in an induced coma after cardiac arrest for 10 mins, he had his sedation turned off yesterday and they are monitoring how he is responding. No purposeful movements or responses except flinching to touch and eyes open but I'm told these are both reflexes only. No hand squeezing or eye tracking.
He is on full life support and it will be coming to the point where they will brain scan him soon I believe. At this point if he hasn't suffered another csrdiac arrest and died it will be time to turn off life support.
Will I be offered the option of being with him at the time? If so has anyone here ever watched their love one die after it being turned off. I'm so scared it would be traumatic and not just drifting off into a deep sleep but I also feel in such utter misery at the thought of him being alone without me there (he is divorced, I'm his only daughter, his everything)
I would be on my own watching him go if they even gave me the option without anyone in there with me to support me.
I'm completely traumatised already if I'm honest, it's the worst thing I've ever seen and I saw my poor grandad waste away to cancer but this is just poor utter horror in seeing him kept alive like this.
I just want to get on the bed and give him a cuddle and I can't.
If anyone has ever experienced anything similar please tell me if you have regrets with the decisions you made. I'm in pieces and haven't slept again for the second night now so I can't even be sure I'm thinking straight.