Posted on 01/03/2006 2:43:26 PM PST by cyn
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What wonderful news. This should be a lesson for all to not be so hasty to kill.
Here's another source for this story:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182134,00.html
She is responding to some stimuli and breathing on her own. They won't remove the child's feeding tube, at least for now.
Les,I haven't heard any further, hopefully Theodore R. can give some more details.
Pro-life film producer to speak
From North Country Gazette:
The newest judge in Brevard County has never handled a trial but now she's a judge.
And the judgments she made in her last job have come under review.
Help Wanted: Judge---No Experience Necessary
8mm
Officials first reported changes in Haleigh's condition on Wednesday, a day after the Supreme Judicial Court ruled that the agency had the authority to remove her ventilator and feeding tube.
Monteiro said the state now has no immediate plans to remove her feeding tube, and more medical tests will be performed Thursday. She said Haleigh had responded to some testing on Wednesday but would not specify what the tests or responses were.
When Haleigh was hospitalized four months ago, her doctors said she was in a permanent vegetative state and would die within a few days without the feeding tube.
Some patients with severe brain stem injuries may partially recover from a persistent vegetative state, but they rarely recover fully enough to communicate, feed themselves and live ordinary lives, Dr. Steve Williams, chief of rehabilitation medicine at Boston Medical Center, told The Boston Globe in its Thursday editions. But he said recovery is more likely with children than adults.
Comatose girl breathing without ventilator, more tests planned
8mm
I agree! I think this little girl is obviously showing improvement and since she is they should do whatever they can to keep her alive and help her.
After experiencing my grandfather die I came to a new conclusion about the feeing tube issue. A feeding tube should not be removed in a person NOT DYING. If there is no hope and the person needs to be let go and I mean NO HOPE, than and only than should all life support be shut down.
Food keeps us alive, even for the dying. My Papaw fell unconsious on a Sunday night after eating lots that day. He had a order stating he did not want any life support keeping him alive. He has cancer and was dying and we all knew it was his time.
So, we did not feed him once he went down, but we knew he wasn't going to starve to death as the Hospice Nurse said he has just a few days to life if even that. Of course we put water into his mouth and kept moisturizing his tounge and never once to he appear like the lasck of food was killing him, it was the cancer.
My Papaw died Wed night after the Sunday night he went down. He did not die of lask of food, he died of his cancer. I was there as well as my entire family and we took care of him till the end. Never was he hungry. If we had fed him he might have stayed alive longer because food does help sustain life in a way, but he was going to die with out without it, and he was in so much pain and ready to go.
So, the way I view the feeding tube issue now is that it should never be removed from someone just in a coma, with brain damage, or not dying. ONly the dying who fall unconscious near the hour of their death should be the expception, and that is it!
See, doctors don't know everything!
Thanks for the pings, 8mmMauser. I hadn't heard of "A Distant Thunder," before and I'm glad to be aware of it now.
"You forgot the cherished constitutional right to have your brains suctioned out."
I was discussing this with a friend awhile back. She said God must have needed a lot of little angels in heaven.
I wonder, if in the hereafter, the parents that did this will have to stand face to face with the children they did it to.
As things are usually understood, they will have all eternity to face and regret their evil.
May God have mercy on all of us.
http://www.terrisfight.org/
Ping to my last. I'm on break but let's help roll out the new Terri's Fight Web Site.
Any March for Life threads at FR yet?
bttt
We just moved, so I've been super busy. It's great to see some good news re: Scott Thomas, and little Hilareigh.
I won't be posting too much for now, just wanted to say hi to my friends.
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