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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2647306" data-attributes="member: 372207">Hi [USER=581217]@MiyaKimH[/USER] , What a horrible situation you're both in, I'm so sorry.It may be he needs the ventilator still because of the underlying illness. And this may be why he's being kept sedated (unconscious) for so long.In bad cases of covid, patients sometimes needed to be kept sedated for over a month before they recovered enough to be woken up, and I hope something like this is what's going on for your boyfriend.DKA is usually quickly treated, but it is a hard blow to the body, and even in healthy people it can mean a long hospital stay. Coupled with the underlying flu I can imagine it's harder to recover.There are definitely cases where people recovered from such a coma! If the coma is caused by the medication, to give his body time to heal, a coma can be a good thing. And the sedation part sounds like this is what's going on, not a spontaneous coma, except for when he first fell unconscious due to DKA.No-one here will be able to predict the outcome, or how long it will take him to recover from both DKA and the infection. But the little you know sounds like he's being cared for very well.I wish you both all the best, big hug for you!</blockquote>

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