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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In your posts, it is, it seems.
The point is, they contacted 40 other hospitals to see if any of them disagreed with their position that further life support would be pointless. According to Texas law, if even one hospital would continue treatment, they must do so too.
Survival in this life?
Inured is such a wonderful word. Ancient, short, sedate. Language is fantastic in that words, 6 letters, two sounds, can mean so much, describe in those sounds something we all know deeply, we all can be and are inured of something at some time.
Nothing I am saying is juvenile, nor inappropriate given that each of my posts except the first is a response.
Some times it is time to write an essay and some times is is time to push ourselves.
Not to be inured.
Yes, Boardwalk, survival in this life.
Our severly disabled granddaughter had a DNR placed on her chart after they brought her back the second time. Her poor little body had tubes in every orifice, and wires hooked to many machines surrounded her little bed. It was right or fair for her to have to suffer so much.
There comes a time when you place them in Gods hands and trust his will be done.
Well, let's see, either they keep the child sedated for that entire time, or it would suffer that entire time.
The child was dying, tallhappy. You want to help the mother? Help her deal with the grief, not live in a fantasy world.
Why so little patience? I guess the mother was somehow defective, as I read here, so she had to be put in her place.
Are you suggesting the mother has unlimited power to dictate a child's medical care?
As I said before, this child would actually be in considerable physical pain if it were not sedated. I would go so far as to say that her decision to continue treatment is tantamount to abuse. Now, if a mother physically abuses her otherwise healthy child, we're supposed to let her?
And let's look at it from the doctor's perspective. Are you saying that a doctor must perform whatever treatments he is asked to perform, and is being paid to perform, no matter how unethical he beieves them to be? If I walk into a doctor's office and tell him to amputate my gangrenous leg, (when it is obviously not), and I hand him a wad of cash, is he obligated to do it?
You are correct. Texas has a very strict procedure set up for cases like this, that is designed to keep medical decisions out of the courtroom while at the same time preventing hasty and negligent decisions. The law states that if the hospital can reasonably believe that any other hospital in the state would continue life support, they must do so, too. By contacting those 40 hospitals they were demonstrating that the medical community was in unanimous agreement.
You change your stories as you go along.
It isn't about the Mother, Tallhappy. It's the baby that matters in this case. He was not going to live because of his birth defects. The machines only put a pause in the time of his death.
No, she did not.
Well, keep it up, tallhappy, maybe we will become inured to your irrational juvenility.
Not as much unlimited knowledge and power as you.
Inured.
I'd have to cross that bridge if it ever happened.
Sorry, when I talk about her.....
A pity you're arguing out of such ignorance.
I claim no such thing. I do, however, actually have knowledge of this case that you demonstrate quite clearly that you lack.
By the way, that "A pity..." comment was directed at tallhappy, not you.
I always wonder why anyone would commit suicide. They are going to die one day anyhow. Why not just wait?
Why the pell-mell rush? What becomes so all overwhelmingly important about death asap?
The baby's chest and lungs would not grow with the rest of his body. Therefore, the baby would slowly suffocate, even on the ventillator.
Survival in this life is limited for everyone. The question is about afterlife which may be affected by the time spent in this life.
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