"Tinslee has been at Cook Children’s since her premature birth. The hospital said she has a rare heart defect and suffers from chronic lung disease and severe chronic high blood pressure. She hasn’t come off a ventilator since going into respiratory arrest in early July and requires full respiratory and cardiac support, deep sedation and to be medically paralyzed. The hospital said doctors believe she’s suffering."



The poor child and mother

I can see both sides and I completely understand a parent's reluctance to let their baby go.

that she would want her child to have such a brutal, painful, and deteriorating existence.

what it must like to have to make such a decision. No one can if they haven't had to do it.

being in this decision chain. Heartbreaking for all involved. Reminiscent of Terri Schiavo. In that case, I felt the husband had the right to decide (not the parents). In this case, the parents need to make the decision. It's sad that Texas law, a judge and doctors will make the decision for them. Sucks all around.

It's a law from Gov G W Bush days, and the state has removed people from life support whose family wanted more time for their loved one. The cases I remember are another case of a hopelessly damaged baby, an elderly man in a coma, and a young woman dying of cancer (in a religious hospital--Baylor) who wanted to die in her mother's arms, but the hospital wouldn't wait for her mother to arrive from Africa.

I'm not sure the mother understands the pain and suffering the infant is going thru for naught.

But I do have experience with futile care in adults. It is awful and hard on everyone.

But there are situations where continuing care is indeed futile. The patient has no input and the medical professionals and family are left with terrible decisions. I have participated in getting a family to understand that we are not going to heal and not going to get well and leave room. I watched so many doctors and nurses avoid direct questions or give vague answers. I made people cry at times, but I never lied to them. That is an extra level of cruelty on top of what they are having to accept.

People do die from what is wrong with them. A life in ICU is not good for the patient. It is usually painful and messy and none of those treatments are without side effects.

Keeping the facts from someone is cruelty. Helping them to see the truth is the job.

And yes, I understand that some will never accept it even when the medical professionals do their job well.

We’re looking at this for my mother now and are not really satisfied with how general the typical wording is... interested in whether your experience might have given you any ideas about what to specify...?

The supposed Right-to-Lifers did not care when living baby Sun Hudson was deliberately killed because he was an inconvenience to the state back in 1995.

Republican governor, Republican Prez.

Texas Right to Life can put their money where their mouth is to give her continuing care.

"The law stipulates that if the for profit hospital’s for profit ethics committee agrees with for profit doctors, for profit treatment can be withdrawn ..." ...

... "for profit" ...

Just stop.

Your agenda is showing.

as the hospital is a non profit.

Pretty obvious what your agenda here is.

I'm a parent but still can't imagine being such a selfish ghoul that I would allow my child to suffer like that for the benefit of my feelings.