Posted on 03/15/2005 4:12:28 PM PST by RobertP
Houston Mother Loses Fight To Keep Baby On Life Support Baby Sun Born With Fatal Genetic Disorder
POSTED: 11:23 am EST March 15, 2005 UPDATED: 6:29 pm EST March 15, 2005
HOUSTON -- A critically ill baby at the center of a lengthy court battle died Tuesday shortly after being removed from life support at a Houston hosptal.
A judge in Houston on Monday lifted an injunction the mother had won that prevented doctors from halting the care they believed was futile.
Sun Hudson was born with a fatal genetic disorder.
Wanda Hudson unsuccessfully fought to continue the medical care for her 5-month-old son, Sun. The boy was diagnosed with a fatal genetic disorder that left him with a tiny chest and lungs that were too small to support life.
Texas Children's Hospital said it was "deeply saddened" to report that Sun Hudson died from the affects of a lethal and incurable genetic deformity.
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Are you always this disrespectful of what is so obviously a sad case for all concerned?
Would you respond to my post #9?
O'Reilly interviewed Wanda Hudson a couple of weeks ago. Tragically, the baby was born with a disorder that he had no chance of surviving. It was very obvious that something is "off" with the baby's mother - like she is living in some parallel universe NOT caused by the truly surreal horror of her baby's condition. Even her attorney appeared to be embarrassed by some of the strange things she said.
I have compassion but lets don't get carried away. The baby was terminal. She has to accept that he was not going to get better.
Have mercy! This is a mom who will never have the comfort of knowing that her baby knew he was loved! My prayer is that the baby boy will know it and carry that with him forever.
Sounds like mom was schizophrenic( sp?)
And you may well be too if you ever walked in her shoes.
Perhaps so. But note that she was a bit off even before the child was born.
Something is not right thats for sure. It's not even clear that she would have been able to raise a child had he been born normal.
No.
Do you have a cure for vacuity?
I don't want to euthanize you.
My comment is in #2.
Look up the word inured.
The attitudes expressed on this thread bear my comment out.
Except one fellow was pretty honest making the case that he is scared somehow maybe the baby will cost him some of his money somehow if they don't make it die as soon as possible.
He had priorities.
I'd pray for a miracle first....there is NO way I'd leave my baby hooked up like that....if The Lord didn't heal him...then I'd unhook him and let him return to heaven.
Just hearing a few sentences leads me to believe that this mother has a mental illness. Schizphrenia causes people to live in a unreal world.Our adopted daughter's bio mom is Schizo and she doesn't talk coherently most of the time.
Are you sad?
I'm not sure who this "fellow" is you are talking about. But they are not making it die, they are allowing nature to take its course. Even the Catholic Church understands the difference, you would do well to learn.
Just a gentle reminder that until you are actually are in the situation, you never know where you may be led.
No. Do you have a cure for vacuity?
I wish I could help you out with your vacuity problem. Your responses certainy indicate that you have a severe case of it. You refuse to tell us whether you have a cure for the child's condition and whether, in your opinion, the baby boy should live until he is braindead on the end of an airhose, which is the end to his life that you seem to have preferred.
Not overwhelmingly, no. But I am not one of the "concerned" as I am in no way connected to this case.
I am, however, disgusted at your complete lack of perspective on this situation and your resulting disrespect for the caring doctors, nurses, and others who have poured blood, sweat, and tears into this case, and bent over backwards to do the right thing---even going so far as to contact 40 other hospitals to find one who would take the child and continue the life support (none would) and paying the mother's legal bills.
They take no joy in seeing this child die, as nature guaranteed would happen.
Apparently you've decided to just blast away today at people who probably are in agreement with you on most issues. This case has nothing to do with "disrespect for life." All these people you are responding to in such a juvenile fashion have a great respect for life. Why don't you just try to defend your point?
I understand that and I certainly do have compassion for the mother. We all have a tendency to react to the sadness of the inevitable with disbelief and find it difficult to accept what is true. I daresay there are few of us here who have not been forced to accept the inevitable death of a loved one. However, what I am saying is that it "appeared" as though it was not the baby's impending death, but something else that was causing the mother's inability to comprehend the circumstances. Just my observance, that's all.
That's what I think.
My twin daughters almost died when they were infants. However, they were fighting a virus. One of them was on a ventilator for a week.
The other one was on a ventilator for a whole month. At one point, they thought she might need to go on a heart and lung machine.
They survived and are 8 years old. One of them has brain damage caused from the doctor's over correcting her sodium level. She was on the ventilator a week. She's actually doing well considering. She just has speech problems.
The one that was on the vent for a month is doing great. We're pretty sure she is gifted, and she will go far in life.
Of course, we also had insurance that paid for the hospital bills.
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