Energy drink leaves man with hole in his head.

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  1. Chinatown

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    A mother of one is speaking out after her husband's energy drink consumption nearly cost her family everything.
    Endres Photography[/a]'s Facebook page, a woman named Brianna described the heart-wrenching battle that she and her husband Austin ended up having to fight while simultaneously preparing for the birth of their first child.
    "Being pregnant is supposed to be one of the most amazing journeys you will ever embark on," Brianna wrote. "You're creating a new life. You are experiencing unconditional love for someone you have not even met. Austin and I were so excited to meet our little boy. To bring him home. To be a family."
    Amid her soon-to-be growing family's bliss, Brianna said she received news from her mother-in-law that would leave her whole world "shattered within hours."
    "I still remember my mother in law waking me up that morning. 'Austin had an accident' she said. All I knew was that my husband was in the hospital. The worst part? I didn't know why," Brianna wrote.
    "After a two hour drive to the hospital, I learned that my husband, the father of my child, the person I am so deeply in love with, had had a brain hemorrhage. Why? The doctors concluded (after running his tox screen and ruling out drugs) that this horrible event was due to his recent excessive energy drink consumption (a habit he had built when he started working longer hours and commuting)."
    Before the family could process was happening, her husband was in an operating room undergoing a life-saving procedure.
    "Surgery was already in motion... and after an agonizing 5 hour wait, we got to see him. But while everyone was focused on the almost unrecognizable face hooked up to all sorts of machines and tubes, all I could see was his parents. I saw the light leave his mother's eyes as she saw her motionless son laying in that hospital bed. I saw his father break down crying as he held onto his wife. They didn't know if the life they created together would even wake up. Watching this family- my new family, who I have grown to love and be a part of, be so shattered and broken...that is the worst feeling I have ever felt."
    The next day, Brianna said her husband was already undergoing his second round of brain surgery.
    "Following this were strokes, seizures, swelling, and more things we weren't prepared for," she wrote. "There was a moment, sitting by his hospital bed, just praying he would be okay, that I knew I would never give up on him. No matter how messy our life would become. I was going to be by his side through all of it. After two weeks of living in a hospital, wondering if he would survive or be taken from us, we made our way back home. The time had come for me to deliver our baby."
    "I'm not going to lie to anyone, it was so hard. I had planned on Austin being a part of this huge moment," Brianna continued in her emotional post. "Being by my side. Holding my hand. Being there to cut the cord. Being there to welcome our son into the world. It didn't feel right... But a beautiful miracle happened as I delivered our son. Austin woke up."
    The new mom said that for about a week after her husband woke up, she was not even able to see him.
    "I thought about him every day. I cried as I looked at my child who looked just like his daddy," she wrote. "When the baby was only a week old, I left him with my in-laws. I knew I needed to see Austin."
    "I needed to tell him that our baby was here. To tell him how much we needed him. Weeks went by. We chased him all over the state as more operations and procedures were ordered. I saw him every chance I got. At a little over 2 months old, our son finally met his dad. A day I wasn't sure I would ever see. That was the day that my heart gained some of its happiness back."
    But although Austin was finally able to return home to his loving family, Brianna said the struggle did not end there.
    "Our life isn't normal. There are doctors visits and hospital trips- so many that I loose count. But we are here. Fighting," she wrote. "I wake up every day to take care of our beautiful little boy and my husband. I prepare the meals, do physical therapy, speech therapy, and occupational therapy. I help him with personal hygiene. I help him walk. I help him with every aspect of his life. And in between these tasks I take care of our very busy eight month old. It is hard, and I am tired, but we make the most of it. He isn't the same man I fell in love with, but I still fall further everyday, We are fighting to help him recover. To make his life better. One day we will get there. Until then, I will never give up on him. Because love is selfless, and I love him more than life itself."
     
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  3. x1Heavy

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    It is heartbreaking with some of these stories.

    The one thing no one ever talks about is the financial destruction these medical expensive things impose onto a family trying to have children.

    I hope that the hospital wrote off the billing which has to be extremely large with many zeros. Maybe just maybe Daddy will be around a while to raise that child. And it will be worth it.

    I fail to see where the energy drinks come into play, if it is already toxic enough to cause a doctor concern in tests, they should ban the #### things. ( I am a former caffinee pill popper, by the box of 40 count, 80 count...) if life is so stressful you have no time for sleep and rest and fill yourself with energy this and pill that to stay awake, it's going to kill you that much faster.

    Now that would wasteful don't you agree?
     
  4. VIDEODROME

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    Aside use as an energy drink, I found Monster Energy or Venom to be addictive when I finally caved in to try them. I haven't had either in a few years, but honestly part of me still loves them and wants one when I see them in the store. My mouth is watering just thinking about it as I type this.
     
  5. doontoonkc

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    I work in the medical field. This story is not true and the photoshop photo is a HOAX.
     
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    I work in the medical field. This photo is a photoshop hoax and this is NOT a true story.
     
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  7. Chinatown

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    I've seen that guy's picture before. The other picture I saw said he lives in Florida and was injured in some type of incident.
     
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    Does kind of look like this guy.

     
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  9. Chinatown

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    It's a cheap fix really;

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  10. x1Heavy

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    I recall this particular situation. Only because of the extent of his higher motor, emotional functions that have occupied that space in his brain... It's years ago.
     
  11. Chinatown

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    Maybe he played too much soccer.
     
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