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In reply to the discussion: 10-Year-Old With COVID Dies After Mom Given Choice to Amputate Limbs or 'Let Him Go' [View all]calimary
(81,988 posts)What kind of life could a previously normal and active ten-year-old expect to have with multiple amputations? One amputation? Perhaps of a leg? Id imagine the mom would have sadly and reluctantly approved. I know from 40+ years of personal experience (not me but someone near and dear) that a leg amputation, at least BK (below the knee) need not hold anybody back.
But more than that? A second limb? Thats awfully hard. Although people do recover and carry on. Max Cleland lost both legs and an arm in Vietnam. He went on not only to recover but thrive, even campaigning for, and winning, a seat in the United States Senate. He became an inspiration and a role model for pretty much everybody, about pretty much everything. Lost re-election to an able-bodied waste of turd manufacture (Saxby Chambliss) who had no business even being in the Capitol building, much les in Senate chambers. On two legs.
But ALL FOUR? Max Cleland was at least old enough to have served in the military. Hed enjoyed a normal non-handicapped life into adulthood before calamity struck.
But THIS kid? Could he have made an adjustment this big? Had he been into sports? Was he physically active?
What a nightmare for that mother. And how does SHE adjust to this? A decision SHE had to make. Every mother expects her kids to outlive her. A little bit of her, deep inside, will likely always be at war with herself over this, for the rest of her life. And there will be people who cant - or worse - wont understand. I feel so bad for her. It hurts me just to think about her and where she is in a moment like this. Her sons suffering is over. Hers has just begun.
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