Clearly, Sharon's legacy is in danger if he is merely kept alive as a "vegetable"...another Terry Shivo....in effect.
Stroke patients are very problematic because often they will lose all "higher brain" function, but the lower brain will keep them alive physically....heart and lungs functioning mechanically...with no awareness on the part of the patient.
My advice would be NOT to give Sharon a "trach"...to allow easier breathing...as this would stop the eventual pneumonia from developing...and almost gaurantee a persistant vegetative state.
Once the trach route is taken...along with naso-gastric feeding or a feeding tube into the stomach...these stroke patients can linger for years! And things just get more complicated.
Hopefully, someone in the Sharon family will realize this...and "do the right thing"...and let nature take it's course.
Rather than prolong the suffering of all concerned.
