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I tried to post on the previous thread about Jahi Mcmath and found it closed. Here is the latest news article.

Jahi McMath: New tests may not be enough to declare her alive, experts say - San Jose Mercury News

I believe the only reason this case is so popular is because of Obamacare.

Many people were using this case as an example of a death panel,esp the anchors at Fox News.

I'm very glad that I don't base my medical opinions on anything found via Fox News. Really.

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

Merry Christmas,Jahi

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I don't think she's going to have a Merry Christmas. She is not aware of anything, much less that it's Christmas.

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

Being facetious.I know there is a fate worse then death.

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Specializes in Med Surg, ICU, Infection, Home Health, and LTC.

Thank you. :)

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Specializes in Oncology, Rehab, Public Health, Med Surg.

I find this so sad. Frustrating, baffling, tragic but mostly just so so sad

Time to let her body rest-- all that made that poor child 'her' has long gone on

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Specializes in Med Surg, ICU, Infection, Home Health, and LTC.

I noticed Jahi and her case is reactivated in the news today.

Jahi McMath’s family takes brain-death lawsuit to federal court - SFGate

[h=1]Jahi McMath's family takes brain-death lawsuit to federal court By Jenna Lyons

[/h][h=5]Updated 2:27 pm, Thursday, December 24, 2015[/h]

Amazing how tenaciously this family keeps the case going. I have been where there was a choice to recode my 4 and 1/2 year old son or just let him go and take the vent off. I let his body go, his brain and most organs had shut down and thought it was only right to let his body join the rest of him. It was a heart wrenching decision, But I have not once regretted loving him enough to let him go.

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@CheyFire, I am so sorry about your precious son. No parent should have to go through that.

I can imagine this case elicits some strong emotions on your part. My sincere condolences on your tremendous loss.

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@CheyFire, I am so sorry about your precious son. No parent should have to go through that.

I can imagine this case elicits some strong emotions on your part. My sincere condolences on your tremendous loss.

Thank you, his death is what guided me into nursing.

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I think it's easy to be so definite and sure when it isn't your baby girl in that bed. I would be interested to see how the adamant ones would behave under the same circumstances. I'm sure they wouldn't be standing at the foot of the bed screaming "you're definitely dead" at their child like they're doing on this thread. Attacking her mothers fashion choices is petty at best. I think if this type of thing happens to you coping any way you can is fair. There could be a million answers that no one is interested in because their minds are already made up. Sad in so many ways.

I can answer this entry with 100% of experience. To me it is selfish and cruel to keep your child's body alive because as a parent you can't imagine life without them and your love is not strong enough to let them go. It hurts to give birth, (back before epidurals and fetal monitors and natural childbirth was all the rage) but it hurts like he*l to have them die in your arms. I can feel every tear drop to this day. I can smell the air in that ICU and feel his body in my arms when I close my eyes.

It wasn't my baby girl, it was my four and a half year old son laying in a bed basically brain dead after a 45 minute code that morning in which his brain got very little oxygen. He had pneumonia and his heart and lungs filled with fluid. The nurses and doctors worked to get his body back and they put him on a vent. I watched as his body slowly started shutting down, he seizured most of that day, and when his heart started failing that night the doctors asked me how much intervention should they do.

I was not a nurse. I had never done anything more than use a bandaid at that time. I didn't have a degree in anything, I had a 2 month old baby and a husband who had walked out on me. This was back in the 70's before DNR's were discussed or nurses taught families about the right to die, or hospice was even a known medical word. Even with all I did not know, I knew my son, as I knew him and as a child, was dead and he was gone. I asked the doctor to do nothing, just let his body go on to wherever he was now.

I can imagine standing at the foot of the bed of your dying child and loving him with all your heart, mind, and soul. I cannot imagine demanding that doctors and nurses and the world keep his body alive because you could not bare to let him go. Grief hurts in places most cannot imagine, so deep it defies the language of words. But this woman's inane refusal to let the child "go" is beyond my comprehension.

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Specializes in LTC,Hospice/palliative care,acute care.

Had to bump this,I think of her often

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