Sentences with phrase «lives on a ventilator»

All will become locked - in eventually, and 5,000 to 6,000 each year are at the point where they must decide whether to spend the rest of their lives on a ventilator, unable to speak, or to refuse it and let themselves die.

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Life expectancy is three to four years and physical degeneration is fairly rapid and eventually leads to complete paralysis, at which point he will have to be placed on a ventilator.

She had a history of previous C - section, went against medical advice in choosing homebirth, ruptured her uterus, had her baby's life save and her life saved by a repeat C - section and lost her uterus and wound up in the ICU on a ventilator having received multiple transfusions.

But I felt that at the time my newborn who was on a ventilator with a hole in his lung fighting to live needed me.

I live in a green house with twice the legally required insulation and a heat recovery ventilator, and I drive a hybrid and I bike and I live two miles from work, but then there are those 170,000 miles up there on United Airlines, and that is 90 - odd percent of my footprint, just as Robin said.

The girl lived, but she spent 20 days in the hospital, part of that time on a ventilator to help her breathe.

This project showed that patients who had been on a mechanical ventilator for one - week could be divided into disability risk groups using age and length - of - stay in an intensive care unit and that these groups determine one - year recovery and illuminate the details of functional disability in daily life.

Tommy was run over by a car in the Bronx, NY, was killed and then came back to life, and then he was resurrected, so to speak, in the ICU and CCU, he spent 3 weeks on a ventilator, but during that time he had crossed over and went through a tunnel of light, and met Ascended Masters in Heaven.

If the location of the spinal cord injury is too high, the victim may need to be on a ventilator for his / her full life.