Re: Help Needed: Anoxic Brain Injury

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I have a client who suffered a very similar-sounding injury after his heart developed an arrrythmia while he was jogging, and he arrested. After shocking him TEN times to revive him, the docs spent the better part of the next year alternating between ignoring him, and encouraging his wife not to treat him for routine infections. She ignored their guidance, and put him on Ambrotose powder (a Mannatech glyconutritional product, in which I have no financial interest). He now lives at home with her, has some ability to communicate, and appears to understand quite a lot of what's going on around him - certainly he's no "vegetable" by any stretch of the imagination. On my birthday, he and his wife sang a slow rendition of "Happy Birthday" to me. So, I'd say, give your friend lots of love, prayer, and Ambrotose, and eventually some neurofeedback.

With my best wishes,

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Hello group,A wonderful very dear friend of mine has been taken to intensive care after his heart and respiration stopped last night. We aren't sure of the extent of the brain injury yet, but the doctors are highly concerned that the damage is very severe, and he is beyond any chance of survival, since his heart stopped for a good amount of time (at first it was thought to be 4-5 minutes, but possibly much longer).I'm writing to ask if anyone has any suggestions, links, or leads for helping his recovery. Are there any experimental treatment protocols that can be tried, neurotherapy or otherwise? I am guessing the first hours and days after injury could be a crucial time theraputic help. Or is this, as the doctors are suggesting, just a horrific waiting game? I'm assuming this is beyond the domain of anything I could do with normal neurofeedback, otherwise, I'd be over there with my Pendant trying to convince

everyone to let me give him a TLC Assessment!My wife is at the hospital with him and friends in Wisconsin, and I dont have 100% of the details. It was discovered he has an irregular heart beat. He is intermittantly responsive and unconscious, and can't breath on his own without a trach tube. When he comes to his movements are uncoordinated and "infant-like". We are waiting for the results of the MRI and echocardiogram, and were told the extent of the brain damage would be known over the course of the next few days.Although he is not in a coma(?), I'll contact Sara Hunt Harper and Margaret Ayers for their advice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any advice you can provide.Carlcarlcarlbrahms

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Carl,

Remember, that though they say there is a short window only to make recovery from this type of an accident, you can find in the literature many many cases where neurofeedback was begun YEARS after the fact and great gains were made.

So- deep breath. PRAYER and positive imagination was the most effective resource I received when hospitalized in acute phase for an accident that threatened my medula.

REMEMBER- with anoxia, you have the path of the carotid artery that is principally effected.

LOOK UP IN GOOGLE IMAGES: "watershed, anoxia" You will see what brain regions get HIT hardest.

NOTE- the frontal and prefrontal are not hardly hit!!!

This seems like being emprisoned in my body AND KNOWING IT! when I think about prefrontal functions. BUT-

It also is a huge potential still intact:

TO CHOOSE, TO BE AWARE, TO PAY ATTENTION.

So I have a client who suffered the same insult. And he is hospitalized, and as his mom spent the 6 months that it took to talk the hospital into allowing her to use EEG NF at his bedside (which causes huge artifact BTW). I made a series of visualization scripts audio recordings together with music that he enjoys. I made other recordings that described the anatomy of the brain. I recorded other stuff about Brain Plasticity. All with nice musical backgrounds and some binaural beats. MOSTLY guided imagery for him to

1- GET HIS WILL UP TO HEAL HIMSELF

2- HAVE A VOICE ANCHOR TO KEEP HIM CONCENTRATED

3- GIVE HIM EXERCISES!

In a separate email, I'll send you a short example so you get the idea. His mom put it on his ipod and he listened every day.

He's doing better than they said he would.

It's VERY GOOD SERVICE!!!

Anoxia is very hopeful in my mind. Patience with the acute phase. If the hospital won't let you go now, you can go with EEG NF later.

Best,

Help Needed: Anoxic Brain Injury

Hello group,A wonderful very dear friend of mine has been taken to intensive care after his heart and respiration stopped last night. We aren't sure of the extent of the brain injury yet, but the doctors are highly concerned that the damage is very severe, and he is beyond any chance of survival, since his heart stopped for a good amount of time (at first it was thought to be 4-5 minutes, but possibly much longer).I'm writing to ask if anyone has any suggestions, links, or leads for helping his recovery. Are there any experimental treatment protocols that can be tried, neurotherapy or otherwise? I am guessing the first hours and days after injury could be a crucial time theraputic help. Or is this, as the doctors are suggesting, just a horrific waiting game? I'm assuming this is beyond the domain of anything I could do with normal neurofeedback, otherwise, I'd be over there with my Pendant trying to convince everyone to let me give him a TLC Assessment!My wife is at the hospital with him and friends in Wisconsin, and I dont have 100% of the details. It was discovered he has an irregular heart beat. He is intermittantly responsive and unconscious, and can't breath on his own without a trach tube. When he comes to his movements are uncoordinated and "infant-like". We are waiting for the results of the MRI and echocardiogram, and were told the extent of the brain damage would be known over the course of the next few days.Although he is not in a coma(?), I'll contact Sara Hunt Harper and Margaret Ayers for their advice. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for any advice you can provide.Carlcarlcarlbrahms

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Thank you all for your help. I've gotten so many wonderful suggestions to help aid in my friend's recovery, we've definitely got our reading cut out for us..

Great news: Jack (my friend), now has a temporary pace-maker and his condition seems to be stable and dramatically improving all the time!

The doctors have gone from being fairly certain about there being very little chance of his survival due to his heart failure and extensive brain damage just 1 day ago, to now being optimistic: They've removed his breathing tube, are lowering his sedatives, and he's now able to speak and recognizing some of his family members. Probably thinking he was at another soiree, surrounded by family and friends, he looked around his intensive care room and said: " Oh my, this is a very nice bar! "

Thank yous from all of us,

-Carl