The mother thinks her daughter’s heart attack was caused by her “abuse” of highly caffeinated items to assist fuel her twice-daily workouts.
“I was taken aback. Barranon recalls, “I knew I detested [energy drinks], but I had no idea they could be fatal.”
She was staring while her eyes rolled back when she was out with friends. When they discovered she was having a heart attack, they mistakenly believed she had had a stroke.
When the ambulance arrived, it was unable to intubate her. Her brain was damaged as a result of her prolonged oxygen deprivation.
She never woke up throughout the three hours they spent working on her. When the neurosurgeon arrived, he assumed she was under the influence of narcotics, had been “roofied” (spiked), or something.
She never came out of the ten days she spent in a medically induced coma.
