Dad not waking up after being taken off sedation

[butterflybee1218]

Hi everyone!

My dad woke up last friday night vomiting while he was unconscious, and the ambulance came and rushed him to the hospital immediately. He was absolutely fine and was just a complaining of a headache the night before, but he gets those all the time. Anyway, the doctors now think he has a brain AVM he was born with that unfortunately ruptured. It is very tiny so they aren’t focused on surgery right now and it didn’t bleed a whole lot so they have a tube right now draining the rest of the blood, which is going okay for the most part. He is on a ventilator, they turn it off some days for a few and he breathes fine on his own. I think they are just using it for precautions because they are doing a lot of testing/procedures on him and he does suffer from high blood pressure as well. Early this morning the doctors decided to go ahead and put him off of sedation so he could start to wake up/become more responsive. Well, he hasn’t woke up yet and the doctors were expecting him to be more alert by now. Obviously, this is worrying me and my family. Mind you, my dad has no experience with these types of drugs and I am thinking his system just has to adapt. He never takes anything but ibuprofen for pain, so this makes sense to me. I also read that it can take up to 24 hours for sedation drugs to fully leave the system. The doctors as well as my family are hoping that within the next two days he opens his eyes.

I was just roaming for some comfort, maybe if any of you have been through similar things as well, and if this is normal? Thank you so much in advance for taking the time to read/reply!

[Sepsur]

Hi @butterflybee1218

I hope you get some more certain news today. I’m sure different peoples tolerances to sedative affect how quickly they come around. I took along time. I’m sure if they are really concerned, the staff will do ct or MRi scan to try and determine what’s going on.

[butterflybee1218 in reply to Sepsur]

Hi Sepsur

I wanted to update you on my dad’s condition, and also tell you that I’ve read your bio and find your story very encouraging, you are a fighter for overcoming all of what you did. My dad had a trach put in yesterday, and this morning he had a VP shunt surgery so that the stomach will absorb everything in his brain. They will be performing a brain scan later this evening to make sure that it is placed correctly and doing what it is supposed to do. He is still not fully alert, before the surgeries he was opening his eyes a bit and obeying most commands, he even gave the doctors a thumbs up once when asked which we have been praying about for days! I’m sure he is very tired from the last two days, from all of the procedures and also from all of the sedation as well so I don’t expect him to be fully alert and i’m sure he will be resting these next few days. The doctors are planning to send him to a inpatient rehab facility, one that is specifically for ICU patients, and they say that this is a great step forward. I’m hoping that this as well as the surgeries performed will help him wake up, heal and become more alert, as well as make him stronger. Thank you for your reply and I hope you are doing well!