.if you keep this girl on a vent, you'll have to provide round the clock nursing/resp therapist..
.you'll have to treat many pneumonias...she'll have a catheter so her skin doesn't break down from being incontinent.
..then she'll get urinary tract infections and she'll need more antibiotics...antibiotics which will probably have to be given IV which means she'll probably have to have a permanent PICC line or port.
..think of all the labs that will have to be run..
..think of tube feedings and excoriation around the rectal area from that...
think people...
..is this what any of US would want?....I wouldn't wish it on my worse enemy...not even bammey boy...
Absolutely. Life is more than a blip on a heart monitor.
In the catholic hospital the discussion is about prayer and compassion. It is not about futile efforts to satisfy the need of a grieving parent.
What people forget is that it’s about the patient, not the parent.
Miraculous recovery stories have so many un-published issues that it is downright cruel to suggest them to parents in this situation.
If there are three opinions (usually that’s the number) who say a child like this is dead, they are dead.
Without knowing the particulars the best that any of us can do is pray for the parents. The child is already with God.