Bobbi Kristina Brown has been in a medically induced coma at an Atlanta hospital for almost three weeks and little has changed with her condition. The only daughter of Whitney Houston and Bobby Brown was rushed to the hospital on Jan. 31 after she was found face down in a filled bathtub at her Georgia home.
She was immediately placed on a ventilator and put in a medically induced coma as doctors tried to access the severity of her condition. According to People magazine, doctors performed a tracheotomy on Bobbi Kristina earlier this week to relocate her breathing tube.
Family sources told the magazine that the procedure was "normal" but necessary so she didn't develop an infection.
"The tracheotomy is a different place for the tube to go," the source said. "Everything else remains the same. It's a waiting game. The family is hoping and waiting."
"It's a normal procedure to have the tracheotomy because if you have a breathing tube down there for a long time, it can cause an infection," the source added. "She is still critical and we don't know what the outcome will be. No one is giving up on this kid."
Bobby Brown has denied numerous reports that he was planning to remove his daughter from life support and instead asked everyone to continue praying for her recovery. The family source told People that the tracheotomy made everyone in the family aware of just "how serious this is."
"Even if she wakes up, there's a possibility that this could do some damage to her vocal chords, I hear," the source said. "This is happening because there are no other options. If there was another way, Bobby would do it."
According to NBC News, doctors want to remove Bobbi Kristina from her coma but they first have to slowly stop administering the coma medicine. Earlier Thursday, reports surfaced that the 21-year-old's boyfriend, Nick Gordon, was begging the family to let him visit with Bobbi Kristina. The family banned him from Emory Hospital, where Bobbi Kristina is fighting for her life, because he reportedly got into a fight with several family members.
"Nick has been trying, privately, to do everything he can to see Bobbi Kristina cooperatively," a statement from his lawyers Randall Kessler and Joe Habachy read. "He has respected the family's wishes, and for that reason alone has not returned to the hospital and risked a public confrontation. But he desperately wants to be with the one he loves and continues to hope that his request will be granted."
