DVT On Arrival ?

[cojones]

12-01: Woman who fell into coma in Bangkok flown to Dallas

By KATHERINE SAYRE

Felicia Shankle Rogers arrived by ambulance flight Tuesday morning in Dallas after slipping into a coma during her honeymoon in Bangkok last month.

Rogers, the daughter of Longview ISD's Assistant Athletic Director George Shankle and his wife, Mary Shankle, was comatose state after suffering a stroke. The $130,000 flight brought her to Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, where she is listed in critical condition.

The Shankle family had been appealing to the Longview community for help with the expensive medical flight back to Texas. George Shankle said Tuesday that a local businessman who wished to be anonymous offered to cover the costs.

Felicia Shankle Rogers, a copyright lawyer for a Chicago law firm, graduated from Longview High School in 1995. She married Roy Rogers on Oct. 23 at the Tyler Rose Garden, then began a two-week honeymoon. The couple had planned to spend one week in Bangkok and another week in Hawaii.

Shankle said his daughter had complained about a leg cramp shortly after getting off the long flight to Bangkok. Doctors in Bangkok told the family that the cramp was probably a blood clot that broke loose and traveled to her heart, causing the stroke.

Dr. Gary Tunell, Rogers' neurologist at Baylor University Medical Center, said that while he couldn't comment on Rogers' condition, in general, patients who have been deprived of oxygen to the brain or blood flow to the brain for more than five minutes usually have irreversible brain damage.

"And if this person doesn't improve within a matter of days, like three days or seven days, if someone has been in a coma for more than a month, the likelihood of any recovery is less than 1 percent," Tunell said.

[FreedomDude]

Stretch those legs, indeed!

3 days ago, I flew from Tokyo to Detroit. The woman sitting next to me NEVER got up from her seat a single time!! I go bonkers if I don't stand up at least once every couple of hours.

[ProfessorFart]

Don't they have decent hospitals in BKK????

[LaoPo]

Don't they have decent hospitals in BKK????

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There are VERY good hospitals in BKK.

The question is, who made the decision to fly her

back to Dallas-USA (such a long distance) in such

a bad condition in the first place?

Look at www.bangkokhospital.com just to name

1 of the very best hospitals in the Far East!

[LaoPo]

Stretch those legs, indeed!

3 days ago, I flew from Tokyo to Detroit. The woman sitting next to me NEVER got up from her seat a single time!! I go bonkers if I don't stand up at least once every couple of hours.

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I fully agree with you!

Everybody knows that you dehydrate during a long flight and become almost

paralyzed.

Also, everybody knows that you have to 'stretch' your legs and bones.

Also, you have to drink LOTS of water.

Every year, a number of people die after long-haul flights; so if you sit-sit-sit

and never get up, the chance your bloodstream 'protests' and will cause problems,

who is the one to blame?

[ProfessorFart]

The question was tounge in cheek Lao Po!!

I too was surprised that they flew her back to the US in such a state when there ate world class hospitals in BKK!!

[LaoPo]

The question was tounge in cheek Lao Po!!

I too was surprised that they flew her back to the US in such a state when there ate world class hospitals in BKK!!

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Thanks Prof! maybe combination of different factors:

1. panic of the newly-wed husband

2. panic back home about "3rd world country hospitals"

3. bad advise of the USA Embassy

4. under-testimated the situation.

poor girl, poor husband, poor family, poor thinking about insurance....

[waldwolf]

For info, there are several insurance policies one can purchase which cover ALL costs to fly you to the hospital of your choice, worldwide, in a medically equipped and staffed aircraft.

Policy Cost:

Currently less than $200 (US) per year for an individual or under $300 (US) per year for a whole family. (Same coverage for 7, 14 or 21 days of travel starts at $69 (US).)

Two companies* offering such coverage:

MedJet Assistance

Travel Guard International

* As recommended by Peter Greenberg, "The Travel Detective" (bio here) (Peter owns a home BKK)

Everyone, regardless of age, is subject to DVT's resulting from long flights. A few years ago the then U.S. Vice President Al Gore suffered a DVT, following a long flight in Air Force 2. (Having personally suffered 5 DVT's, 2 in left leg, 3 in right, I can confirm the're no picnic.)

You'll find more info on DVT's here