Lots of people that don't have kids don't feel the horror and sadness when they see stories like this. I say that because I didn't until I had kids. Then you've got psychopaths like Mescalito chiming in. As a parent, I don't get past the grief when reading about stuff like this. The money and politics just don't register at all.
I find the attempted intervention by the Italian government (with the Pope and the Catholic church behind it probably) deeply unhelpful though, especially as they're fueling the situation by giving the parents false hope of some kind of miracle.
My two penn’orth, which I have posted before whenever this problem crops up ( and this isn’t the first time).
In 2005 we were told to take my 5 year old daughter Home and make her comfortable. The NHS could do no more to treat her juvenile pilocytic astrocytoma ( brain tumour).
My wife, God bless her, refused to accept this and researched treatments available any where in the world.
The internet wasn’t what it is now.
Long story short we took our daughter to the US for a treatment unavailable in the UK.
A friend paid for the treatment. In NYU medical centre you don’t get through the door without pre payment. They do not take insurance cases.
Amazingly the NHS paid for it retrospectively.
We had our 15 minutes as national news.
My daughter is now 27, has 3 degrees and awaits a training contract to finally qualify as a solicitor.
I find Tony’s post borderline offensive.
The parents of this child merely want to try other alternatives elsewhere and are being prevented from doing so by medics who allow medical politics to overcome basic humanity.
They are not “bed blocking”, the arrogant bastards in charge won’t let them take their child elsewhere.
I don’t know enough about this case, as I suspect every poster on here, to make a judgement.
All I would counsel is take care, sometimes doctor doesn’t know best.
I believe, given these rare circumstances, the parents should be allowed to exhaust all avenues, I think it's mainly down to peace of mind when grieving begins, they want to say, at least we tried everything, however futile, it can make the grieving process a little smoother, having regret added into the mix will only make matters worse.Lots of people that don't have kids don't feel the horror and sadness when they see stories like this. I say that because I didn't until I had kids. Then you've got psychopaths like Mescalito chiming in. As a parent, I don't get past the grief when reading about stuff like this. The money and politics just don't register at all.
Bob Mc's post makes it all the more reasonable, and correct, that every parent should not be expected to accept the opinion of the NHS as being the best one...so whether it is the pope or an expensive surgeon in a different country giving hope, then I'd probably follow the opinion that offered hope, too.I believe, given these rare circumstances, the parents should be allowed to exhaust all avenues, I think it's mainly down to peace of mind when grieving begins, they want to say, at least we tried everything, however futile, it can make the grieving process a little smoother, having regret added into the mix will only make matters worse.
The problem I have is when the Pope & religion get involved, if they are religious, then fine, faith can also help when grieving, but if they are not, this will just add to the misery when given false hope.
So they do put people down like dogs then?It seems that the life support was withdrawn, but the planned injections of Midazolan and fentanyl to end his life didn't happen.
So they do put people down like dogs then?
So they do put people down like dogs then?
No. Having worked in palliative care for longer than I care to remember including HIV(early 90's) and Oncology I can inform everyone that these drugs are only given if the patient is showing signs of distress and to make them comfortable.
The posts from Monkfish are offensive in the extreme.
My posts were in no way meant to be offensive, I stated the facts, nothing more, they intended to end his life with a cocktail of drugs.
they intended to end his life with a cocktail of drugs.
In this country we DO NOT euthanise patients. It is illegal.
If you believe a medical team in the full glare of the media, or not, would do this then you are very ill informed.