My Baby Brother....

Cole passed away Sunday morning, May 10, 2009. It was unexpected and without warning! There is a lot of people asking what happened....so instead of fighting the tears and repeating the horrific experience that my mother and family went through, here it is in a short version. Saturday morning my brother Cole was complaining of chest and back pain. He then went to a chiropractor for the back pain. After arriving home the pain had escalated. He was at this time vomiting and nauseated. My mother then took him to the Emergency Room around eleven in the morning. They ran a number of tests including cat scans, urine, and blood tests. The conclusion at the end of the first ER visit was that he was probably passing a kidney stone. He was sent home with pain and nausea medication. Saturday evening around nine my mother took Cole to the ER the second time. The pain was not letting up and the medication was no longer having an affect on the pain. He was in the ER for three more hours before they admitted him. He gradually got worse through the night, so they did a scan of the fluids in his body using that dye which they did not use in the first scan. This is when they found pools of blood internally and the doctors say that his aortic valve had burst or leaked and he was bleeding internally. This was around 630 Sunday morning. By the time they had found the problem it was too late to life flight him or prep for surgery. They could not stabilize him enough to do either. He went code blue at 8 am Sunday morning. He had no previous heart conditions. Everything that could go wrong did. It was a shock to us all.

Cole's Obituary can be seen at www.flammfh.com