HEY!! So a few months ago (or however long ago it was... I can't remember) I had an idea for a Danny Phantom AU in which Danny was put in a coma in the accident. Since then, I've been researching different things to make this story much more believable and have also been working on a picture for it. Although its going terribly. But! I've managed to write the prologue to this thing and have started chapter 1. I decided I'd let you read the prologue though.
(pssst, I haven't come up with a name for it so if you have any ideas please let me know)
Also, thanks to lexiepiper or Alexis or whatever she's known as on here because she's the one who helped me with the things I didn't understand. You're amazing!!!
When Danny Fenton stepped into the machine his parents had built, he was thinking two things. The first and foremost thought was that he wanted to help his parents. They had looked so disappointed and Danny could tell they were about ready to give up the thing they had pursued their whole lives when it didn't work. They had spent all of Danny's 14 years and then some working on this project. To see all that work go to waste was almost heartbreaking.
The word 'coma' comes from the Greek word 'koma' which means deep sleep.
The second thought was that it was a stupid idea and he should stop. But with his friend's looking to him, waiting to see what would happen, he couldn't back out. So he carried on. Nothing happened in the first few steps he took. He breathed out and glanced back to Sam and Tucker. They smiled at him encouragingly. Sam even gave him a thumbs up.
It may be a transient phenomenon during acute illness or persist in the long-term. Patients in a coma are alive yet unable to perceive or react meaningfully to their external environment. A minority of coma patients may be able to open their eyes occasionally or groan and withdraw limbs from painful stimuli, but those in 'deep' coma do not exhibit these responses.
He looked around the cavern of metal and wires, hoping to spot something that might need fixing. The white and black suit felt too tight and restricting, making it difficult for him to breathe. His foot hit a loose panel in the floor causing him to lose his balance. He placed his hand on the closest wall, trying to regain his footing. A click made him pause and he lifted his hand to look at what it landed on. A green button had been pushed down and was glowing slightly. The word 'ON' flashed up on the small metal panel and a whirring noise began to fill Danny's ears.
If a patient should flatline, measures are taken to bring the patient back. Such measures include CPR and defibrillation, which are the two main ones.
It was slow at first. The whirring sounded like any other machine that was taking its time to warm up. But it soon got faster. He panicked and looked at his two friends who were now calling his name - urging him to return to them quickly. In his haze of panic, he felt his legs begin to move, but slow. Far too slow. The machine started glowing and a wind that came from further in the portal pulled at him. It slowed him down considerably and a green goo-like substance started forming around him, sticking to the hazmat suit and his skin and his hair.
If it takes too long to bring the patient back, it can result in a Vegetative State. If the Vegetative State lasts for 4 weeks and more, it is known as Persistent Vegetative State.
Lightning-like electricity zipped around the inside of the machine. Danny desperately reached to his friends who stood horrified at the edge of the portal, their mouths forming words that he couldn't hear over the wind and energy. Time had seemed to slow down as he was pulled slowly back into the inside by the vortex formed by the wind and goo. Tears welled in his eyes as he screamed in fear, which soon became screams of pain as bolt after bolt of energy struck him over and over. His vision became hazy with the green that swirled around him, the inside of the lab and his friends fading from his view. He screamed his friends' names one last time, his boyish voice breaking with overwhelming fear and pain.
A Persistent Vegetative State can follow a coma. There is loss of ability to think and of awareness of surroundings, but non-cognitive function and normal sleep patterns remain. Although they lose their higher brain functions, other key functions such as breathing and circulation remain relatively intact.
Danny whimpered as his vision faded to black. Unconscious, he couldn't feel the hands that brought him out of the green vortex. He couldn't hear his friends sobbing and calling his name. He couldn't hear the sirens that took him away from his home, or his mother and father calling his name in desperation, or his sister crying and holding his hand and yelling at their parents.
Permanent Vegetative State is when it is thought there will never be any recovery from the condition. The longer the condition persists, the less chance of recovery there will be.
