Geezzz, May God heal her and restore her health....
Even if Bobbi Kristina Brown
comes out of the medically induced coma she was placed in after being
found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home in Roswell, Georgia, the
chances are overwhelming that she will never be the same again.
“It really sounds like a complete
recovery would be almost impossible,” said Rachael Ross, family
medicine physician and recurring host of syndicated series “The
Doctors.”
“Just based off my own personal experience and my own clinical experience, it really sounds bad,” Ross told TheWrap about Brown’s condition.
The 21-year-old daughter of Bobby Brown and late singer Whitney Houston
was reportedly placed in a coma and connected to a ventilator after
being discovered face-down in her bathtub on Jan. 31. Ross said doctors
would have placed her in a coma to give her brain time to heal, with
hopes that neurological function would return as the patient regains
consciousness.
“If the brain is doing no work —
it doesn’t have to metabolize anything, it doesn’t have to think — then
what we can do is, we can prevent [her brain] from swelling any further,
and we can potentially buy her some time and let it heal up,” Ross
offered.
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| Bobbi Kritina and late mom, Whitney Houston |
According to Ross, Brown has now
reached a point where, if a patient still “basically shows no brain
activity,” doctors typically begin to discuss taking the patient off of
life support.
“Generally speaking, if someone
stays in a coma longer than anywhere from two to four weeks, that’s a
bad sign,” Ross explained. “We consider that a decline where we as
physicians are talking to the family about withdrawing support.”
An attorney for Bobbi Kristina’s father, Bobby Brown, denied a report on Monday that
the family intended to remove her from life support. Ross said it’s not
uncommon for family members of patients on life support to resist
ceasing that support.
“What happens, as you can
imagine, this is your loved one, and you maintain hope,” Ross said. “You
keep thinking that a miracle could possibly happen. So a lot of times
it’s really hard to get the family to turn off and withdraw support.”
In such cases, Ross noted,
doctors can petition the hospital’s ethics committee, presenting their
data to make a case to withdraw life support.
Bobbi Kristina’s family has not
responded to TheWrap’s requests for comment on her condition. But Ross
said they still have reason to be hopeful. “Miracles do happen every
day,” she noted.
One factor that, perhaps
ironically, could help the celebrity offspring achieve that miracle
— the presence of her boyfriend, Nick Gordon. Brown and Gordon’s
relationship has been marked by controversy, and Gordon has reportedly been barred from visiting her in the hospital. But his reported banishment could be a mistake, Ross cautioned.
“I would venture to say that it’s
counterproductive,” Ross said, “particularly when it’s someone that
they love. There are plenty of studies that show that positive energy
and people hearing music that they love, hearing the voices of loved
ones, is an important part of recovery.”
Should Brown emerge from her coma, Ross said, she has a long road to travel on the path to wellness.
“If she does come out of it and
she does survive, I think that her quality of life would be severely
changed. She would probably have to relearn a lot of the functions that
she used to know, like talking, walking,” Ross told TheWrap.
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| Kristina and boyfriend, Nick Gordon |
While Ross explained that it
“would take anywhere from six months to a year or so” for Brown to
regain full functionality, the duration of her recovery would largely be
dependent on her mindset.
“If Bobbi Kristina was depressed
[in the period leading up to the bathtub incident] … then she’s going to
have a hard time learning everything, because she’s going to come out
of it and still be depressed,” Ross offered. “Whereas if she comes out
hopeful, and is ready to just survive and really live, then she’s going
to have an easier [time] of it.”
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