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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]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)97. Horrible decision, but the choice was not between living without limbs or death.
She was at least spared the burden of even briefly facing that decision. If the authorities in hospital and government believed the surgeries could give her child a viable chance at life, his mother would not have been offered this final choice.
The choice was whether to amputate when it was believed by the experts that this last, desperate effort to save his life would fail. She was allowed that choice because she was his mother and for her own sake, so she could know she did everything possible, and she chose the most "humane and compassionate thing she could do for her child."
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10-Year-Old With COVID Dies After Mom Given Choice to Amputate Limbs or 'Let Him Go' [View all]
ecstatic
Oct 2021
OP
I imagine that a close friend or family member would be the one to do that.
NurseJackie
Oct 2021
#55
If the patient is able to make decision then they have to give them the choice
whopis01
Oct 2021
#81
If the treatment is that extreme and the likelihood of survival that low.
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2021
#105
You can't do surgery without parental consent unless you get a court order. Considering the
mucifer
Oct 2021
#9
Yes, as would I. If they said survival was at least 75%, maybe would feel different.
Fla Dem
Oct 2021
#35
I would not like to think that as a Black child he did not get the appropriate treatment.
Fla Dem
Oct 2021
#39
I would never put my kid through that especially with only a 25 percent chance
jimfields33
Oct 2021
#79
But if the grown ups in Texas (and across America) had gotten vaccinated and everybody had ....
Botany
Oct 2021
#43
The only "good" that might come from this tragedy is that maybe when the vaccine is available to ...
Botany
Oct 2021
#45
This is the result of Republicans asserting their rights to be unvaccinated, and Texas is soon to
Doodley
Oct 2021
#10
In Texas, it doesn't matter. The kid was living in a COVID death zone, unprotectable.
lagomorph777
Oct 2021
#26
They wanted to amputate both the legs and the arms. I can imagine living as a paraplegic,
Vinca
Oct 2021
#20
But quadriplegic? And probably dead, regardless? I'd make the same choice for myself.
lagomorph777
Oct 2021
#28
In utero?I'm sorry, but that is such a false equivalency.Plus it is a LONG way from long-haul COVID
Hekate
Oct 2021
#91
Horrible decision, but the choice was not between living without limbs or death.
Hortensis
Oct 2021
#97
If they can interfere in someone else's life and exercise power over them,
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2021
#106
Proves the "life at conception" argument is an excuse to control women's lives.
lindysalsagal
Oct 2021
#36
My heart aches so much for her. The very thought of having to make this choice is making me ill. n
joetheman
Oct 2021
#44
I think she did the right thing. So horrible for them all to go thru something so terrible.
flying_wahini
Oct 2021
#50
Pass gently, little guy, & may Mom find peace. COVID complications are horrific ...
Hekate
Oct 2021
#82
Yeah, it was the right decision. Nothing good about it, though. That poor mother must be devastated.
PatrickforB
Oct 2021
#126