Posted on 04/29/2011 10:10:02 AM PDT by wagglebee
Baby Joseph is home, and apparently not as unconscious as the London hospital representative stated. From the story:
Baby Joseph napping at home in his crib on Easter Sunday is all the proof his father needs that his Ontario doctors were wrong. Only months ago, the fate of 15-month-old Joseph Maraachli was a question mark. Doctors at London Health Sciences Centre in London, Ont., sought to take the infant off life support as he battled a progressive neurological disease. But on Sunday, the round-cheeked baby was home in Windsor, resting in a cradle packed with plush toys. Now and then he opened his eyes or wriggled a little, or moved his arms beneath father Moe Maraachli’s occasional touches and kisses. When Maraachli held out a finger at one point, Joseph’s own stubby fingers curled around it.
Love. Comfort. Touch. These are important to every baby.
Joseph’s father wants answers:
“I feel victorious,” Maraachli said, smiling broadly as he stood by Joseph’s crib. “I feel I won and my baby’s alive.” But he’s also been left with questions about why he and wife Sana Nader had to go to the U.S. for help. “That’s what makes me mad,” he said. “Why I have to travel to St. Louis?”
That’s a good and important question. Joseph clearly was not on the verge of death when the hospitals wanted him off life support and refused a tracheotomy. The tracheotomy obviously provided him great benefit, and in fact, is apparently a normal palliative procedure in cases such as this. Indeed, he’s off of machines and home where he can die peacefully in his own time.
So, why was Joseph and the family treated so badly? Why did the family have to go the USA to obtain proper care for their baby? Will Canada Medicare pay for the procedure that so clearly should have been provided to Joseph in his home hospital?
Don’t expect answers to come readily. I have noticed that when a case goes against what the futilitarians predicted, they generally hide behind closed doors–until the next time they boldly assert that wanted, efficacious treatment for a dying or profoundly disabled patient is “inappropriate.” That shouldn’t be allowed to happen. The Canadian authorities should investigate.
Perhaps a good place to start to right the wrong would be a sincere apology from Joseph’s doctors and the hospital administration to the family.
Unfortunately, people who aren't dying are killed every day because their families are pressured by death mongers.
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Some doctors and hospitals are as evil as Dr Jack Kevorkian.
Welcome to Obamacare. The new senior care will be loading up infirm people with Morphine until they die. Think of all the research money that will be saved by discontinuing the development of medical procedures, equipment and medicine to prolong useful lives. On the other hand, it will also mean more unemployment. But then who cares, right, we have to “make room” for more “people of color” who want to leave their craphole countries and come here for a better life.
Exactly ...I watched the Canadian “hospice” put my Dad “to sleep ..I believe intentionally .. .
Exactly ...I watched the Canadian “hospice” put my Dad “to sleep ..I believe intentionally .. .
Correct me if I’m wrong and please understand that I am sympathetic toward the child in this instance.
If the information I once saw on a thread about this child and his siblings (at least once of whom has already died from the same neurological disorder), this couple insists on reproducing even though they both carry the gene for what is going to kill Baby Joseph.
Setting aside your sympathy for the child (and children), don’t you think that these parents should be called out for having children, all of whom have or will contract this neurological disease?
I had a brother who married this woman and the two children they had had severe neurological problems. The daughter lingered in her crib, never sat up, and died before she was two years of age. The son, now grown, never walked and is mentally retarded. At least they had the good sense to quit having children.
We are not suppose to question the verdicts of the state authorities.
don’t worry, this statement is actually coming true.
Put “is correct” after “...disorder) in the second paragraph.
I can understand the cost pressures on hospitals. But that really doesn’t explain what the Canadian doctors tried to do in this case. All the parents wanted was to give the child a tracheotomy—a simple and relatively inexpensive operation—and send him home to die in peace, if that was what God intended.
I don’t see why it would have cost the hospital any more to do that, than to keep him there without food and water until he died, presumably of thirst.
It would seem that their motivation was that they wanted to kill him before he escaped their clutches. And I’ve seen that too often among some doctors—not all, thank God—in these days of the culture of death.
so quit blaming hospitals...
While on the other end of the age spectrum.....
Avoid morphine if at all possible.
The increasing doses are themselves, fatal, irrespective of the underlying illness.
End stage awareness is critical to prayer, reflection, repentance, and communication with loved ones.
Don’t talk to me about pain and suffering.
I’ll accept anything on this side of the veil in preference to the other side.
If you’re from the no consequences crowd, don’t bother.
In the case of Baby Joseph, the hospital was emphatic about not giving him care and even went to court over it.
that usually doesn't happen unless its a long hospitalization where further care is thought to be useless...
What the hospital THOUGHT turned out to be wrong.
so quit blaming hospitals...
They were WRONG, why not blame them?
So, you’re saying that one dead sibling, one deathly ill sibling, and a healthy one is OK. One out of three ain’t bad. If that’s the way you see it, who am I to complain?
Then this couple is making good reproduction decisions.
That's not what I'm saying at all.
Here is what YOU wrote in post #9 (added emphasis is mine):
Setting aside your sympathy for the child (and children), don’t you think that these parents should be called out for having children, all of whom have or will contract this neurological disease?
What you wrote is patently false.
Then this couple is making good reproduction decisions.
Where would YOU draw the line?
Do you support full-scale eugenics?
If you would stop parents from having a baby who may or may not have a neurological disorder, why not stop parents who might have a baby who would develop MS, muscular dystrophy, a heart murmur, diabetes, near-sightedness or any number of hereditary conditions?
Where PRECISELY would you draw the line?
Every time I see this little boy I tear up and want to run home and hug my kids.
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