Are you kidding me?

[Ema]

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you have a good point...I am not going to pretend to understand the decision they made, all I can say is that if it was my child I would likely do the very same thing the parents are doing too. I can understand where the hospital officials are coming from, but from a parents perspective, I could care less about their point.

When my little sister, She was 7, Passed away, it was at the hospital, we knew it was coming, but It would have been so much better if she had been able to do it at home, in her favorite spot in the sun room where she loved watching the birdies eat and do their thing.

either way this is just a really sad situation which ever way you think about it!!

 

[arabianequine]

I believe you can ask to be moved to a different hospital too. Why don't they ask for a move to one in the US or where ever he was getting care at before?

 

[Ema]

they just did that and now looks what is happening...I am a proud canadian but I sure don't agree with this at all, In fact having been raised in windsor I know which hospital this child is at, and 3 of my friends work as security staff, one of them is my Dh best friend and she has refused to work this assignment. Said she had a big issue in which they are conducting themselves and either they reassigned her to a different floor or desk or she would stay home and take up her complaint with the union. they placed her on desk duty.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/02/23/windsor-baby-joseph-security686.html

 

[mom'sfolly]

The other point is that this child hasn't been in the hospital for just a few days or even a few weeks. This kid has been there since October, progressively losing brain function. The baby cannot breath, swallow, see or hear. He is not going to get better and go home. The parents know this, the doctors know this and the hospital knows this.

I don't know where I would be if this were my child. I don't think a 13 month old baby who hasn't been home in over four months is going to miss the experience of being home to die. Being at home to die is for his parents, not for him. It does not ease his passing or comfort him. Any comfort would come from his parents being with him when he passes. No one has said or implied that this would not happen in the hospital. It may seem impersonal and cold to the parents, but I don't think it makes that much difference to a child who has spent 1/4 of his life there.

Again, I don't know what I would think or do if it were me. I hope that I'm never in the position to make such a decision. The decision for me, if I were in this family's place, would have been to never have another child after the first on died.

 

[JustAChickenLittle&More]

Yeah, this is crazy! One of my friends had her son in the hospital with an upper respiratory infection. She wanted to discharge him because they weren't doing anything. They told her if she did it against the doctors advise, they would have to call social services.

 

[redhen]

Why wont they let the father be alone with his child??

 

[PepsNick]

No way did I click on the link. So depressing.

This is just sick... To the doctors... Off with your heads.

 

[gamebirdsonly]

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That figures......................

......FOX..........

It still does not make sense..... A trach is a pretty simple operation, you or I could do it.

I feel for the family.. Too bad they have to be subected to the international spotlight with the FOX political propoganda machine....

ON

I'm sure all the other news channels do political propoganda too.

 

[cassie]

Sorry. I agree with the government and the hospital on this one. What can possibly be accomplished by keeping this kid hooked up on life support? What? He isn't going to recover. Ever. And keeping this, for all practical purposes, dead baby breathing is squandering resources that could spent to treat someone who can be actually be helped. Continuing to treat this baby is doing no one any good, least of all the baby. If the parents were wasting their own money, that would be one thing. But they aren't. They are using taxpayers' dollars on a lost cause. No matter how much time, effort, and money are spent, this kid isn't going to get any better. If you spend enough time in the neonatal wards and the ICU, one thing becomes crystal clear. There are a lot worse things than dying. A lot worse.

 

[chickened]

If the government woud stay out of healthcare completly this would be a decision made by who it shoud be made by... THE PARENTS. Obamacare anyone? On the other hand when you progressive liberals give all your rights to the government and in turn the government if footing the bill the government must look out for what is in the best interest of the government or in America "the people".