Re: [QUAD-L] Suffocation

[Eric Olson]

Not the same.  If you were able to tell someone you couldn't breathe, you were still breathing.  Your diaphragm was still able to force air up out of your lungs and across your vocal cords.  Your respiratory function gradually got so poor that you weren't able to remove enough CO2 from your bloodstream to stay conscious.  With a sci you go from normal breathing function to nothing instantly.  S. Dial wrote: Yup, when I became stricken with TM I kept telling the nursing and respiratory staff I couldn't breathe but they refused to believe me (cuz my color was good??) until I died and they had to resusitate me then put me on a vent that I stayed on for 6 months. But, the actual dying part wasn't so bad I just got very tired of struggling and simply lost conciousness and poof I was gone.   Steph