[8mmMauser]

Close to home:

The uncle of our very close friend, also a close friend of ours slipped a few days ago while climbing a ladder on the side of a house. Part way up, his foot went through the rung and he fell backwards striking the back of his head on the cement below. He got up dazed but functioning fine. Family called EMT and they transported him to a hospital for observation. (They thought...) They knew a blow like that and concussion could cause serious problems once swelling set in, but held no further worries. Uncle was strong and in good health otherwise and showed no other effects than being stunned by the injury.

Our friends have always held great faith in doctors as if they were gods, a faith we lost many decades ago. They would never question, just would trust. Here is how their trust was rewarded:

Obviously, he needed care and observation, but someone on staff decided he must be sedated and he was put under. Right away, most all body functions shut down, kidneys, etc. Soon they did a tracheostomy. All was to no avail. The hospital staff declared him beyond help and recommended he be taken off life support. They will do that today. Our friends now in sorrow are also in rage at why he was sedated. They have no response from the hospital yet, but finally they suspect their blind trust is betrayed.

We will find more details as the days pass, but so far that is all we know.

Although they are aware of our own attitudes and even about this thread, when pressed they still placed blind total faith in the medical help. No time or place now for "I toldjaso's", just prayer.

So many of us have been conditioned to accept medical authority as power from Heaven. It paves the way for acceptance as if we were sheep. We are thankful our own blind trust shifted to wariness many decades past.

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[Lesforlife]

Prayers for your dear friend.

We really need to help the Schindlers begin founding medical safe houses!!

The pace with which this death train is racing down the track is
frightening.

If we can't fund safe houses yet, we need to put our heads together and
locate hospitals which uphold the Hippocratic Oath so that patients can
be removed from organ harvesting mills and be sent to faith based,
care giving medical facilities.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Just damn : (

Prayers sent up for your friends uncle, and your friends. You wouldn't happen to know the medication used to sedate him? Back in '93, my mom had a masectomy, and complained that the nursing staff was screaming at her. They obviously gave her too much anesthetic, but her mind went south soon after that.

Sedation shouldn't shut down your organs. It's too bad they couldn't have gotten a blood sample, but like the rest of us, they trust the hospital : (