by Adam Mint on Thu 27 Jul 2017 - 0:41
Thought a lot before I started this thread, a very sad affair...
So why did I.
Me and Annie watching news about two weeks back, was when courts had agreed with hospital it was a lost cause but an American doctor thought he had an answer...
Annie says to me what do you think, I say pull the plug,,, she calls me a murderer,,, I say no, the kid is brain damaged, blind, can't move, can't feed, I say a machine is keeping the kid alive, no one is sticking a knife in the kid killing it, it's not murder,,, she disagrees and asks what would I do if it was my kid, I say pull the plug,,, even bigger argument now, me arguing the kid has no life even with ongoing experimental medicine,,, I'm still being called a murderer...
I relay this to her, my first marriage, sons born many weeks premature, little yellow thing in a fish tank he was, doctor pulls me aside soon after birth and says to me don't leave the hospital, I knew with the look on his face what he meant,,, wife gets out of hospital a few days after birth, son doesn't, we lived for day/weeks wondering what outcome would be, he got out of hospital after about three weeks, 100% OK...
Annie says what would you have done if he'd been brain damaged, I said pull the plug,,, I'm called a murderer again,,, What life would there have been for my son, tubes in and out of him as he had in incubator for the rest of what sort of life, and the torment for the parents...
We, me and Annie still disagree on this one as the TV case still goes on,,, please do not think I have no feelings for those involved but if it was not for very hi-tec medical kit this baby would be long gone...