by Azlana » Wed Mar 23, 2005 6:06 pm
My grandma's best friend Jeanette is like family to us; she didn't have any kids so we were like her grandkids. Yesterday she had an aneurism and is in the hospital on a feeding tube. The doctor said there isn't a real chance of recovery and that surgery on the elderly is generally unsuccessful. It's sad because her husband was at her bedside last nght and said "c'mon baby, wake up we gotta go home", but even he understands that she doesn't have a chance. Thankfully, she had a living will stating that should something like this happen to her, she would like to do what the doctor thinks is best. Pretty much my entire family is in the medical field and I believe the hospital staff is removing her feeding tube either today or tomorrow...because it is logical, and it's the right thing to do, and Jeanette was wise enough to have made her own decision about what should happen to her and who should be in control of it. It's really sad, but to say that it's "immoral" to take someone's feeding tube out, especially when they're in a vegetative state for as long as the Schaivo case is totally ludicrous.
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