Gary Coleman's wife resisted giving him emergency aid..

[HipChick]

She had a history of violence against him...if the roles were reversed I'm sure people would be looking sideways at him...Apparently she had no actual POA, they were actually divorced back in 2008..this is getting weird...

http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/celebrity.news.gossip/06/02/gary.colman.wife.resisted.giving.aid.ppl/?hpt=C2

Gary Coleman's panicked wife initially balked at helping him after he suffered an apparent head injury that left him bloodied, according her 911 call.
Shannon Price, 24, tells the operator that Coleman was stricken while preparing her something to eat the evening of May 26 downstairs in their Santaquin, Utah, home.
"He just got home, I heard this big bang, I went downstairs. Blood everywhere," she says. "I don't know if he's okay. I'm not down there right now because I have a fever, if I get stressed out I'm going to faint."
Price says, "He fell. His head is bloody. There's blood all over the floor. I don't know what happened." The operator asks, "Is there any way you can go down there at all?" Price replies, "I'll try, I don't know, I mean..."
When the operator asks if anyone else is there who can go downstairs, Price says, "No," and adds, "I've just been kind of sick. I don't want to be traumatized right now."
Price then is heard saying, "Gary, are you okay?" and telling him, "Stay where you are" and "Don't move, Gary."
The operator asks Price to tell Coleman to put pressure on his own wound. "Gary, you have to put pressure on your wound," Price is heard saying. "He's lethargic, I can't really help him. I just need help quick."
The operator says help is on the way. "I just can't be here with the blood," Price says. "I'm sorry, I can't do it. I can't. ... There's blood all over and I can't do anything."
Price then says, "I can't drive" because she's been sick with a fever. "I can't do anything right now."
The operator asks Price "to at least give him a towel" so Coleman can apply pressure to his wound. Price replies, "Yeah, I'm just panicked. I don't know what to do ... I just don't want him to die. I'm freaking out."
Next, she's heard telling Coleman, "You have to put this on your head ... Keep pressure on this, okay, hold this." She tells Coleman, "You need to sit down. Sit down! Gary, sit down!"
People.com: Lawyer says Coleman divorced in 2008
She tells the operator just moments before emergency crews arrive: "I'm gagging, I got blood on myself, I can't deal."

[Bluebear]

1. She sounds like a real mess. "I've just been kind of sick.'I don't want to be traumatized right now'

Who the hell does??

[Warpy]

4. Not everybody is equipped to deal with an emergency

Some people do freak out and some people do faint at the sight of someone else's blood. Scalp wounds are very bloody, profusely so.

She didn't balk at getting him some help. She just couldn't do it herself and it seems he was postictal, so he couldn't do it, either. It's unlikely that pressure on an external wound would have made any difference in the outcome since the hemorrhage was internal.

A lot of people flip out in an emergency, which is why we clear the room in the hospital if we're working on one.

[hlthe2b]

6. true, that....

No matter how infuriating it is to see some panic at the slightest provocation, people do differ in their ability to react.

[Bluebear]

7. Sorry, this is more than freaking out. Her whole exchange sounds self-absorbed.

"Sorry, I just don't want to be traumatized now, I've been sick" is not the same as freaking out over the sight of blood!

[Warpy]

10. I've heard a lot of people freak out in an emergency

and the most amazing things come out of their mouths. It's overwhelming stress. I don't fault her for that.

I couldn't believe some of the stuff that came out of my poor dad's mouth the day my mother died, for instance.

I'm not judging her except to say nursing is probably the last profession she should ever consider because she's not equipped to do it. However, I don't see anything different from any other freaked out person I've ever seen.

[Bluebear]

11. I have to take your word for it. Florence Nightengale she is not :)

[tavalon]

22. I actually convinced a friend of mine to become a nurse even though

she hated the site of blood. I told her she would get used to it. She scrubs for heart surgeries now. But people who have never seen it close up and personal have many ways of freaking out and this is just one of many.

[tavalon]

21. In a Monday morning quarterback sort of way, I see what you're saying

but as a nurse who used to work ED trauma, this isn't that unusual, she was just an especially verbal in shock person. But, while it is kind of Fristian, it sounds to me like she was shocky and on the edge of panic. Thinking very poorly and talking to damn much.

[Roon]

9. I have had two people die in front of me

both times i panicked and stepped aside and let someone else do the CPR. I studied CPR and know how to do it, but when it comes down to it, I can't. One of the few things I don't like about myself.

[Warpy]

12. I've seen seasoned nurses freeze during a code. We just

shove them out into the hall to talk to the family about what's going on while those of us who aren't frozen do our jobs.

It happens. Don't worry about it.

[tavalon]

23. Been there, done that

I even froze once early on.

[Roon]

24. liaison

Now that I can do.

[tavalon]

20. Some people handle it better than others

She was panicking and not thinking straight but she was talking, unfortunately and every stupid thought she had came out of her mouth. I don't hold it against her. I've seen this kind of behavior from people in shock way too many times.

[edbermac]

2. I have had suspicions about this.

When it first happened, it said he'd had an 'accident' and they would give details later.

Why? Just come out and say what happened. He slipped in the shower, fell down the steps, whatever.
Sounds like someone was taking time to get their story straight.

I hope the cops look into this.

[hlthe2b]

5. while his parents were estranged from him, to not even call them?

that is what got me wondering...

[hlthe2b]

3. well that is a contempt-worthy exchange...

I don't know what happened, but this would be one woman, I would have no desire to ever meet.

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. She's young

[Bluebear]

13. Here's the actual 911 call: she couldn't even comfort him!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2t3ncpyRb8&feature=player_embedded

[sabrina 1]

14. He might have had a seizure and fell and hit his head. He had

had seizures before I read somewhere.

As for her behavior, I can understand it to an extent. I was with someone I care a lot about when he started throwing up blood and then passed out. I ran to the phone and was afraid to go back in the room as I was afraid he had died. I was sitting on the floor crying airc. I think it is shock. The dispatcher kept asking me if he was breathing and I was peeking into the room afraid to go over. I did manage to do so while the dispatcher talked to me and was able to tell her he was breathing. He revived before they got there and I was so relieved. The Emergency crew arrived fairly quickly and I was never so happy to see anyone in my life.

It doesn't mean people don't care, she did call for help, but it is frightening to be in a situation like that especially if you never have been before. And if you've never seen anyone die. I was not proud of myself though. And she is probably not either right now.

Unless there is something else we don't know of course.

[Ex Lurker]

15. context is important

and if it's true, as was said upthread, that she had a history of violence against him, that provides a context to her 911 call that wouldn't be there otherwise.

[sabrina 1]

16. True, that would change things.

[Nailzberg]

17. It's actually not uncommon.

My dad was a fire captain with paramedic qualification, 33 years of service. After retiring that job he worked as a 911 operator, where he also certified in Emergency Medical Dispatch, which means he could provide medical instructions to callers. Many people cannot handle the stress of trauma situations, and despite instruction from an EMD dispatcher, most folks freeze up or crumble in this kinda situation. I don't blame her for resisting aid, it is a common fault.

[EFerrari]

18. It must be a trait that people either have or they don't.

I can do emergencies fine. My mother, who is generally much more resilient and inventive than I am, can't do them at all. Weird.

[Politicalboi]

19. So blood everywhere

A big bang, a wound in the back of his head, and she never thinks that maybe someone else might be in the house? I think she did him in. I may be wrong, but I hope the police asked her a lot of questions. And she was the one who pulled the plug on him too. I wonder how long between the time she pulled the plug and when the police questioned her.

[Catherine Vincent]

25. From what I've seen about this chick,she doesn't have a lot of sense

I really don't know what Coleman saw in in her. But to each his own.