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Sep 09, 2013 News
By Romila Boodram
Imagine waking up in an electronics store and you realized that there are a lot of deals to be made. So you start ordering a computer monitor, a battery back-up system, cables, and then the counter assistant, all dressed in white, like a nurse, tells you to go back to sleep.
So you go back to sleep and when you are awake again, you realized you are in a hospital and there was never an electronic store but the equipment you were seeing are all tubes, cardiac monitors, ventilators, feeding and suction tubes, which played a part in keeping you alive when you were in a coma.
This was the experience of 63-year-old Earl Inniss of Mabaruma, Region One, who underwent two surgeries at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC)-one for the removal of a blockage in his intestine and the other one for the removal of his (ruptured) appendix.
The dual surgery landed him in a coma and he was hospitalized at the health institution for almost two weeks.
In a recent interview with Inniss, he related his life and death experience, while at the same time thanking the doctors and the nurses of the GPHC, who he said were by his side throughout his entire ordeal.
According to Inniss, it all started on August 09 last while he was at home in Mabaruma.
“My belly started hurting me bad and I couldn’t bear the pain so I went to the Mabaruma Hospital and they gave me some pain killers and sent me home.”
Inniss added that as soon as he reached home, the pain “attacked” him again, so he revisited the hospital and he was admitted there for a few days. He related that when he was hospitalized at the Mabaruma Hospital, he kept crying out for severe belly pain but an X-ray was never administered to him to determine what was causing his discomfort, even though the facility has an X-ray machine.
“They keep giving me pain killers and they didn’t try to ascertain what was causing the pain and they have an X-ray machine and they have electricity so I don’t know what they are doing there.”
He added, “When I went home from the hospital for the second time and after talking to some friends, I decided to come to Georgetown to seek further assistance. So I booked my ticket and I travel to the city,” Inniss said, while adding that he was a bit skeptical to go the GPHC because of the negative comments he heard from different people.
He stressed that after landing at the Ogle Airport, he made his way to the hospital where he was seen by a doctor, and after taking an X-ray, he was advised that he had a blockage in his intestine which in future, can cause slow poisoning.
“They prepare me for surgery and after surgery then they realized I had a ruptured appendix and I had to do another surgery,” Inniss revealed.
Following the second surgery Inniss developed a breathing problem, and subsequently fell into an unconscious state.
It was then he was taken to the hospital’s Intensive Care Unit, the ward where patients are all connected to machines.
Inniss was not responding for approximately six days and after regaining full consciousness, he was transferred to the facility’s High Dependency Unit. He spent a total of two weeks in the hospital.
The elderly man explained that while in the ICU, his only means of communication with his loved ones was through his tears. “I couldn’t move but I knew that people were around me and I knew they were crying but I couldn’t react. I could only cry.”
“I could tell that there were persons in front of me but I didn’t know anyone and I can remember hearing them telling me that everything is going to be alright and I was just crying.”
He added that on the sixth day, when he first regained full consciousness, he thought he was in an electronics store, shopping for various items.
“I can remember opening my eyes and seeing all the batteries and so in front of me and then I was ordering things and the nurse came to me and tell me to go back and sleep.”
According to the Mabaruma man, hearing the words “everything is going to be ok” was the biggest joy in his life. He could not stop thanking the doctors and nurses at the facility. “I want to thank Dr. Amir and all the doctors and nurses for being by my side every moment. There was not a time when I raise my hand and someone didn’t come to me.”
Inniss is now recuperating at his sister’s home in Georgetown and is due for one final check up before he returns to Mabaruma.
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