I'm wondering if the fall was actually caused by something else, such as an aneurysm or similar, and the fall is being blamed when it was a consequence and not the cause.
Time will tell.
From what I understand of the way thissort of thing can happen - it sounds like they got appropriate medical help to her as soon as possible, as soon as it became apparent there was even the possibility of her needing attention. The usual strategy when there has been a brain injury causing the brain to swell, is to put the patient in a drug-induced coma, because it slows down brain swelling. If they do that, they keep the patient "under" for more than just a few hours or a day; they wait for a lot longer, to give the brain achance to begi to heal. They only give a prognosis when the patient has been brought round, often a week or more later, and they can actually measure how the patient is going.
So for them to have taken her off life support so quickly, tells me that their every effirt simply wasn't working, or wasn't enough because there were other unforeseen problems (such as a catastrophic bleed, or massive oxygen deprivation due to occlusion or out of control swelling).
I dare say we will eventually find out, after a post mortem report is issued. There would be no reason to keep it quiet; any information provides knowledge.
I do find it hard to accept that such aserious accident can happen on a bunny slope. Of course it CAN happen, and obviously something did happen here, but I do wonder if there was another problem complicating things so badly for her, poor darling.
A friend of mine died in her early 20s, of a brain aneurysm. She was at home with her kids, had recently had her fifth baby and just separated from her husband, so was very stressed. her parents were at her house helping her with some chores and she said to her mother suddenly, "Oh, my head!" and just dropped. They called the ambulance and she was on life support for about 12 hours, but as far as they could determine later, she was actually dead before she hit the floor.
Sometimes an aneurysm can go that quickly, sometimes it can leak for a while and then let go. And sometimes a mild bump can be enough to trigger it to go.
Another friend was a builder, he was working on a roof when he fell and was killed. However, the autopsy showed that he didn't slip, he actually had a heart attack while on the roof and was probably dead before he fell. He also had lupus, which they think predisposed him to the heart problems.
Sometimes the answer isn't as simple as it first appears.
In this case - for them to have decided so soon to take her off life support, I think it must hve been more than a simple fall.
Marg
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