Word: coma
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SUNK IN A COMA...
...ended up in semistable condition, with tubes running in and out of me, and breathing through a ventilator. In effect, this machine was breathing for me, because my whole body, shattered as it was, couldn't make good on my will to survive. I was sunk in a coma, unaware of the huge efforts the doctors and nurses were making on my behalf. I was oblivious to the presence of relatives and friends. I didn't realize that the woman I love had flown all the way from New York City to be with me--only to find a speechless...
...coma is not to be without some kind of consciousness. Mine was intensely vivid and took the form of a series of hallucinations, from whose grip I could not awake. They were protracted and obsessive dreams that went on for several weeks. To take only one of them: for years I had been struggling with an unfinished book about Goya. Now I found myself in a late 18th century madhouse, clearly designed by Goya himself--I knew that from its gloomy architecture--outside Seville. I had tubes running into my lungs and stomach, which I would have torn...
...which is among the class of so-called "date rape drugs," is a powerful central nervous system depressant. At sufficient doses, and/or in combination with alcohol or other sedatives, GHB can cause seizures, coma and, in rare cases, death. It is rated as a Class 1 agent by the Food and Drug Administration because of its potential to cause serious, life-threatening symptoms and is illegal under the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts...
According to police reports at the time of the incident, however, the first-year student, Scott Krueger, was forced to drink vast quantities of alcohol at a Phi Gamma Delta party. He fell into a coma at the fraternity, and three days, later, passed away...