Fish Oil: Treatment for Brain Injuries?

(CNN) Time seemed to slow as Marjan Ghassemi saw her 17-year-old son, Bobby, lying in a hospital bed after a car crash.

He had a thick band of gauze wrapped around his head and a tangle of tubes protruding from his body. A hole was cut into his windpipe, and the hollow-sounding hiss of machines helping him breathe filled the room.

At that point, there was no telling whether he would live or die, but Marjan was determined not to cry.

From day one, when we got there, I didnt want him to know we were crying, that we were upset, she said. I wanted all positive energy in the room.

I went in his ear and said You fight your way and come back to us.

It was March 2010. Bobby Ghassemi had been driving fast along a winding road in Virginia when his car barreled off the road. By the time paramedics arrived, he was in a coma and barely alive.

For all intents and purposes, he was dead on the scene, said Dr. Michael Lewis, a physician who later advised the family. Im looking at the reports, and they report a Glasgow Coma Score of 3. A brick or a piece of wood has a Glasgow Coma Score of 3. Its dead.

Ghassemi was airlifted to a hospital. For the first three days, it was touch and go.

Ghassemis brain was so engorged, doctors needed to relieve the pressure by taking out a portion of his skull. He also had what is called diffuse axonal injury: bleeding that suffused nearly every part of his brain.

His doctor said to me, Listen, he has survived. It is a miracle that he lived, that he made it, Marjan Ghassemi said. If he comes out of the coma I dont know if hes going to be a vegetable for the rest of his life or whether hell remember anybody.

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Fish Oil: Treatment for Brain Injuries?