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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]wnylib
(22,230 posts)Yes, even quadriplegics can live full and satisfying lives. But this child would also have had chronic kidney disease and eventually kidney failure, plus lung and heart disease and very likely some cognitive brain damage, plus continued possibility of blood clots and strokes as a result of the multiple systems failure that led to the need for a decision. And that's IF he beat the 25% odds.
If his parents are not rich and if they don't have a top of the line insurance policy, the child would probably not have received the follow up care necessary to sustain life, or to treat the multiple system diseases adequately, or provide him with artificial limbs (if possible in his case), or a motorized wheel chair, home hospital bed or any of the other multiple devices, medicines, and home nurses that he would have needed. The child would have vegetated and died young in the end.
She made the best decision that she could in the circumstances.