Bobbi Kristina has been in a medically induced coma for nearly three weeks now – ever since she was found face down in her Georgia home’s bathtub. Her condition hasn’t changed at all, and it’s likely she’ll never wake up, but as her family isn’t ready to give up on her just yet, it became necessary this week for surgeon’s to perform a tracheotomy.
The procedure isn’t an indicator of a change in her condition, however. “She is still critical,” a family source told PEOPLE. “We don’t know what the outcome will be. No one is giving up on this kid.”
“You can’t leave a breathing tube in long-term because it’s an infection risk and can erode through the trachea,” [internist Dr. Levi Benson] says. “[The patient’s] condition is the same; a tracheostomy [allows for] another type of breathing tube.”
“You wait to see if the patient recovers their breathing function and if the patient does not recover, and if you think the patient might need to have a ventilator long-term, then you do the tracheostomy.”
If Bobbi did make a miraculous recovery and wake up, she should still be able to speak since the new breathing tube doesn’t interfere with the vocal cords.
To be honest, I don’t know why they’re putting Bobbi or themselves through this. Then again, if that was my loved one, I don’t know that I’d find it so easy to just say “You know, she’s never going to wake up, just let her go”. I’d probably want to try absolutely everything, too.
Actually, it’s not a decision that is “difficult” or “easy”. First, you have to stop thinking about yourself for 5 seconds, so that naturally lets Bobby Brown out of the picture. When the doctors have told you that the person is brain dead, their organs are failing, it shocks the hell out of you at first. Then, you go over to the bed and look at them right in the face. They don’t look like the person you loved…because they aren’t anymore. Regardless of religious belief, that person is GONE and you’re looking at a dead body that is being made to mechanically function. It’s very sad that this girl died, but she is past any suffering and putting off the funeral won’t make grieving any easier.
i really can’t blame them for trying to do everything. what would you do if it was your child?
i know a couple who have kept their son who was in a coma alive for 40 years.
i hope they can find peace.
A tough call all around and none us can say much–what do we know what is happening? My opinion is to have everyone say goodbye and have a ceremony to remove life support. The whole family can stay there while Ms. Bobbi Kristina travels home to her Mommy and Lord. I went through something similar (grandfather) to this after 9/11 (okay so it WAS 9/11) (we first took him off life support on the 11th and the hospital (loopholes in their plans) put him back on. So we had to do it all again on the 12th. After he finally passed I actually had to go into the autopsy room and make an official identification. It was so stupid and caused us nothing but grief, but he passed and we could start to focus on his life and not his death.