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As you can imagine this was a total shock to my family. My dad administered CPR until paramedics arrived. He was revived by paramedics after four shocks from a defibrillator. He spent a month in Baptist Hospital. He was put on a ventilator when he arrived at the Hospital. He was unconscious and sedated throughout his hospital visit. He was also placed on a feeding tube. The second week of his hospital visit he acquired Double Pneumonia because he threw up after his sudden death. He then had a fever of 106.5 for about two to three days. He had to be put on cooling blankets and rubbed down with cold cloths. Also while all of this was going on, his intestines slowed down and caused him not to have a bowl movement. The doctors said that since he was on so much morphine it had caused everything to slow down. He was scheduled to get a tracheotomy but his fever wouldn't go down. The next day his fever started to go down and as they were taking him down to get the tracheotomy his heart rate dropped down to 10. Both of his lungs collapsed and chest tubes were administered. That happened on a Wednesday and by that Saturday he had worked himself off of the ventilator. The doctors then diagnosed him with Long QT Syndrome. From there he had horrible hallucinations but he recovered in about a week. The next Thursday a defibrillator/pacemaker was surgically placed in his chest. Over Jason's hospital stay he lost about 40 to 50 pounds. When he checked out of the hospital he weighed around 240 pounds. It has been about 5 months since this whole experience happened and it has changed his life (and my entire family's) forever! He has not been shocked by his defibrillator yet but he lives in fear of the day that he is. Jason has gained all of the weight back and I am going through counseling to overcome my anxieties/sleep problems, which were caused by my brothers whole experience. I honestly feel that our entire family needs to go through counseling because this has been so traumatic. We are also having genetic testing done to determine if I could have Long QT syndrome. My brother's story is so inspirational. He is definitely a walking miracle. I just want to show people that Long QT Syndrome can strike at any time and I just hope that people realize how precious life is! There was an article published in the High Point Newspaper this summer about my brother if you would like to look for it. Thank you so much for taking the time to read my story. I just hope that his story can help others! Melissa Ashe |
I would really like to add my brother's story to your website. His
name is Jason Ashe and we live in Trinity, North Carolina. He is 22
years old and before May 2, 2006 was in perfect health condition. He
played football ever since he was little and even played college
football. He is an avid deer hunter and goes hunting as much as
possible! He has never had any health problems and has always been
seen as a strong young man. He weighed about 280 pounds and was
planning on going to try out for a semi-professional football team.
He experienced sudden death on May 2nd, 2006.
