Let me preface this thread by stating a few things:
1. I'm not posting this thread to bash certain religions, I'm posting to vent, gain understanding, and get a variety of views.
2. Whatever your belief, please respect the beliefs of others.
That said, I admit to not understanding how parents can stand by and watch their child bleed to death.
Teenager, throwing up blood for 2 days, H & H 6.1 and 17.0. Platelets 14. WBC 1.0. Pancytopenia. A religion that does not allow blood products or transfusions. Essentially we will be watching this patient die. As the majority of us know, some fresh frozen plasma, units of packed cells, the ability to SAFELY do an EGD and the patient would be discharged home in about 2 days.
Instead, in 4 hours when the next CBC was done, the Hgb was down to 5.8.
I overheard the attending doc asking the charge nurse to assign a "kind" nurse as this was a "difficult" case. I felt that was unnecessary, because as hard as it is for all of us to watch this, we still treat the patient and family with compassion.
My main point: I'm hoping someone could explain to me, how in the world can you stand by and allow your child to die?
Harsh question, and I'm sure an age-old question, but I do not and can not understand it.
