In Loving Memory of Timothy Houdek, October 22, 1969 - January 8, 2013
My awesome dad: Harry Houdek, September 8, 1933 - November 20, 2013
Words can't convey how much I miss you both. RIP with love.
the sad part of all this, the mother truly believes that GOD will spark her brain and she will awake from sleeping. or something along those lines. its very sad the mom cant accept the truth.
Quite frankly, I'm surprised that Jahi's family haven't been taking pictures and parading them to the press. I know they say they have a video of her responding to her mother's voice, but they haven't put it out there yet. I wonder what the holdup is?
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I'm sure it won't be long. That is one of the things about Terri Schiavo's parents that pissed me off the most. I realize that Terri didn't know what was going on, but I thought it was disrespectful for them to be making videos of her to try to prove that she knew what was going on around her. Terri had everything else stripped away from her, they could have at least have given her some dignity by not putting pictures of her in a diaper on national news.
I can only hope that if I am ever in this horrible position someone would have the heart to say "she's gone" and pull the plug.
Yes, I had heard that, too, but wasn't sure whether it was the truth or a rumor. It was mentioned up thread that they were using a suctioning device on her themselves because they didn't think she was getting it done quickly enough with the nurses. There's probably other bone headed things they've done that we just haven't heard about yet.
I had my tonsils out last year. it took me the better part of an hour to eat a little cup of apple sauce - and that was DAYS after the surgery.
how the flying fuck did she eat a cheeseburger in the hospital. water felt like I was swallowing razor blades.
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they got the feeding and breathing tubes inserted.
http://www.ktvu.com/news/news/local/...ise-fun/ncgp7/
a sick feeling came over me when i started thinking about the mom just keeping the child alive for her own selfish reasons.
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Outstanding post Aries- ITA 100%. Yes, denial is a very powerful thing....in the Schiavo case and others along the same lines, there will never be a "miracle". Once the brain is dead, much less liquefied, that's it. A machine pumping oxygen in and out of a shell is not life. As you said, please....let her body go....she and her soul are already gone. How very, very sad. :-(
My mom (an RN) and I were discussing Jahi's case last night- she reiterated to me and I to her, that (God forbid) should a similar situation ever occur with either of us or our immediate family to pull the plug or down the massive morphine. We all have it in written medical directives just to be sure, again, God forbid it ever comes down to that.
Thank you again for your extremely true and very thoughtful eloquent post.
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Casper, I love you so much baby boy... waking up with you in the house is a blessing every day! Thank you for filling our home and hearts with so much love, joy, laughter and ever so sweet Sammy smiles! We belong together! XOXOX
One person whose name is often overlooked in the new reports is her biological father Milton McMath. Seems he received a small settlement from an incident some years ago in which some cops beat the crap out of him and another guy for no other apparent reason other than their being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with this case, but he hasn't had near the media presence as the stepfather.
i was under the impression its the uncle and mom in the media. i havent heard anything about a stepfather.
The hospital has done the smart thing and stayed pretty quiet thru all of this while Jahi's family has made themselves looks like drama queens to the news media. I bet the truth will all come out once the malpractice trial starts. I doubt they much have a leg to stand on. That poor obese and sickly little girl - who shouldn't have had the surgery in the first place until she lost some weight - being fed a cheesebuger right out of surgery?
I've had tonsillitis twice in my life and I remember not even being able to swallow barely a sip of water that whole week I was sick. Luckily my tonsils dissolved and disappeared on their own over the years (much to the amazement of a couple of doctors looking down my throat recently!).
Giving that girl a fuckin' fattening cheeseburger like that was only enabling the problem that caused all this shit to begin with.
And since her corpse can't swallow any solid food anymore, now they have a feeding tube attached to it. Like that will help?
I don't know all the facts of the case. Speculation and rumors are running rampant. Clearly what's gone on since poor Jahi was declared to be brain dead is absolute lunacy. While our emotions can understand any mother wanting to grasp a any chance to get her daughter back, our rational selves understand that it just won't happen. At the end of the day, the biggest tragedy for me is that a sweet little girl went into the hospital for what seemed to be a fairly routine operation, and then died. Nothing can undo that.
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Very well said! I've been fortunate enough to never lose a child and I hope to stay fortunate. I can't imagine the pain, but there has to come a time when this woman tells herself, "She's gone. She's not coming back. No matter what she is hooked up to, all of the things that made Jahi who she was are gone and only her pitiful, sickly body is left." That child is decomposing right in front of her eyes. I can't imagine the horror of seeing that happen. She needs to think about what is best for her daughter and set her own feelings aside.
They are, however, it isn't like they have much of a choice. Due to HIPPA/privacy laws, unless the family were to give them permission to release her medical records, they really can't say much as a matter of legality.
That being said, I hope the family keeps talking and acting like drama queens for the media —give them just enough rope to hang themselves and hopefully they won't get a dime from whatever lawsuit(s) they attempt to bring against the hospital.
As an aside, something that really burns me about this whole shit show is the fact that sometimes people die and it's nobody's 'fault'. This kid was obese, had sleep apnea (which was almost guaranteed to be made worse by being fat) may have had diabetes, and who knows how many other medical problems. They removed the tonsils, but also other sinus tissue meaning this was not your routine tonsillectomy. Even if the doctors did everything 100% correctly, any time one undergoes general anesthesia there are risks and people can die. Add all of the other factors and tragic as it is, she may simply be an unlucky statistic. So many people go in and so many have complications. No one wants to think they'll be the unlucky one and not to sound cold, but... someone has to be...
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I wonder if they did give her a cheeseburger and it ripped the sutures and they're waiting the for the shit to heal? This way they have a lawsuit?
Okay - not to sound tooooooo dumb or morbid, but will this little angel start smelling? I mean like rotting, even with what they are hooking her up to? If so do these parents REALLY want to see that? SMH...
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She probably is already a bit smelly. Apparently the contents of her stomach that have been rotting inside her this whole time are beginning to leak out. Plus, her brain is turning into a liquid and will soon start pouring out of her ears. I am really surprised the body has lasted this long in the first place.
They used a suction bulb on cauterized tissue. STUPID! Just use your imagination...........
I read an article further up in the thread that said the only way they can tell if ripped sutures (from cheeseburger) caused her demise is by an autopsy. They then said the injury would still heal itself in 3 weeks. That's what made me wonder if they weren't covering their asses by keeping her plugged in.
I have no clue? The whole thing is nuts. I just figured they did several things they shouldn't have and the family may just be covering their own asses.
Some court documents:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news...gical-bleeding
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I don't understand how the body will heal itself if it is essentially dead.
That's freakin awesome! I'm not dead, I just need someone to hit reset. Did you work at a DirectTv call center in a former life? Lol
I honestly don't think a clinically dead person's body can heal on its own. If her body is deteriorating and her brain turning to mush, I just don't see how that would be possible.