article_snippet: A mother has described how A mother heard a doctor asking A mother about switching off A mother life-support as A mother lay in a medically-induced coma after collapsing from a rare condition.
article_snippet: A mother recalls A mother ruling out ending A mother life – despite a previous conversation when A mother said A mother wanted to die if incapacitated permanently.
article_snippet: I was aware of conversations around me,’ A mother said.
article_snippet: The most frequent one was being turned in the bed.
article_snippet: A familiar “ready, steady, turn” would come from the nurses.
article_snippet: The most alarming was between a doctor and husband John enquiring as to my wishes being kept alive on a ventilator and that a doctor and my husband were unsure whether my mental ability had been impaired due to lack of oxygen while a doctor and my husband were attempting to restart my heart.
article_snippet: Starting again: A year on from A mother near-death experience
article_snippet: There was an agreement that I should continue to be kept on a ventilator to give a chance for an MRI scan to be done to see if I had any brain function.
article_snippet: ‘I was not even responding to a basic reflex test, which is why the doctor thought I was not going to have a chance of recovery.
highlights_snippet: Heard doctors ask husband John for permission to switch off life support .
  
highlights_snippet: Has something similar happened to you or a relative?