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To: abstracTT
i also think that the family should let go,

After two weeks???? It would be a different story if he were declared brain dead, but just "the doctors don't think he will recover" is not nearly enough (not that I think anything short of that could be) for the court to order removal from life support.

At the end of September my cousin suffered a massive stroke during surgery and the doctors didn't expect her to survive. After about two weeks they told my aunt & uncle that she would go into cardiac arrest from the brain swelling and they wanted them to sign a DNR. They refused.

It is now almost 3 months later. In that time she has been weaned from a respirator, has partial movent in her limbs and just last week she spoke for the first time since the stroke.

Doctors are not God and two weeks is a ridiculously short period of time to decide to give up hope.

marinamuffy

26 posted on 12/19/2007 8:41:32 AM PST by marinamuffy ("..pacifism ensures that cruelty will prevail on earth." - Dennis Prager/ www.gohunter08.com)
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To: marinamuffy
My ex-father-in-law suffered a series of strokes during open heart surgery to repair a ruptured aneurysm on his heart. After the surgery he lay unconscious for over 3 months.

The decision was made to wean him from the respirator and place him in God’s hands.

Within a few weeks he was awake and began a recovery. Although he never fully recovered, he recovered enough to live out another 8 years of active life. His main trouble was a speech impediment.

2 weeks is too short a time to decide it is hopeless, by the information given in the article.

103 posted on 12/20/2007 1:21:07 AM PST by DakotaRed (Support Duncan Hunter, Not who the media says is best.)
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