Basically, this happened in 2011 but this question still bugs me.
My sister was 8 years old (right after her first communion), when she got extremely ill. She began to have seizures and doctors found no conventional medications were working. She was rushed in an ambulance and went right from the Trauma unit to the ICU, after having worked on her for quite a while. She was intubated and was placed in a medically induced coma. She was seizing almost continuously for 3 weeks. Then they found a medication called "Lidocaine" which ended up working, but not before severe brain damage.
My sister was completely healthy and normal before, but afterward, she couldn't speak much (only several words), couldn't read, couldn't write, amongst other things.
My main question here is: Is my little sister currently in heaven, is she trapped in the disabled body, or is she gone forever? :'(
BTW, she was an extremely sweet, kind little girl unlike my other sister.