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She is NOT controlling her heart. It's being kept in a functional state with mechanical and pharmaceutical assistance. It that were stopped her heart would stop as well.
Also she was not young and healthy. She was obese and had a rather complicated surgical procedure not a routine tonsillectomy as reported in the media.
Agreed. If she were healthy, the doctors would not have risked her life with a complex, high-risk procedure. Remember, the ICU admission was planned before the surgery. It was expected that her recovery would not be easy. Basically, the physician concluded that she would be at greater risk if they had not proceeded with the procedure.
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Originally Posted by Sommie789
...After year , it does not look like she is getting any better.
Nope, she's sill dead. Conditions such as this do not improve.
How long will this go on? Until her poor body is twenty ? Thirty? Forty ?
My grandma in law was kept alive by machines and feeding tubes ( in what had to be abject misery ) for the better part of six years. This child is brain dead. How much longer does this family need before they can let go?
Local news is saying that the family is finally filing a lawsuit against Oakland Childrens Hospital for the "botched surgery"--didn't the surgery go fine and everything was great until her family started feeding her hamburgers and she started bleeding?
They're saying that she's still in the New Jersey apartment on a ventilator.
Local news is saying that the family is finally filing a lawsuit against Oakland Childrens Hospital for the "botched surgery"--didn't the surgery go fine and everything was great until her family started feeding her hamburgers and she started bleeding?
They're saying that she's still in the New Jersey apartment on a ventilator.
How can they sue when the child is still in limbo? It seems they are claiming they didn't know their daughter had other options, like being placed on a diet. I find that hard to believe.
How can they sue when the child is still in limbo? It seems they are claiming they didn't know their daughter had other options, like being placed on a diet. I find that hard to believe.
Legally she's in limbo. The parents can't sue them for killing her, because they say she's not dead. They can't sue for her care, because the State says she's dead. She is in limbo.
do you have a source regarding the hamburger thing? i would like to read about that, if it is true.
Go back and look toward the start of the thread and you'll see it. She was in recovery when a family member, who is a nurse somewhere else, fed her. This caused bleeding. This was not going to be an easy recovery to start. She was a very unhealthy, obese, child who needed surgeries related to those conditions. There was a planned ICU recovery period so I'm positive the parents were made aware of the possibility of death. It sounds horriable but I think they are looking to blame someone else, rather than themselves. If she had a healthier lifestyle she wouldn't have required the surgery to begin with.
Legally she's in limbo. The parents can't sue them for killing her, because they say she's not dead. They can't sue for her care, because the State says she's dead. She is in limbo.
No she's not in limbo. A death certificate was issued in CA.
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