I got this from the neurologist at my University who has interest in this case because well, brain function is his specialty.
According to him, an infant born without a upper brain, as in hindbrain only will be able to: Smile, wink, breathe, respond to sound, basically *any* automated function caused by stimuli you can do with no functioning upper brain.
Which basically means this woman functions on the level of a goldfish at best.
All the "signs" the parents say prove theirs hope of recovery actually prove just the opposit. -_-
This whole mess is really _really_ sad.
I can't hate the parents for not wanting their child to die. That's got to be on of the hardest things a parent can accept. I can't blame the husband for wanting to respect his wife's husband.
I do think though, that the parent's are only seeing what they want to see and I think it's cruel of whatever doctor's and/or laywers are out there giving them false hope.
I think Congress and our dear president were completely and TOTALLY out of line and Bush's stance on this is totally incosistent with previouses stances on such issues, but of course, the big wealthy doctor's were losing moneys because people wanted their loved ones to remain on life support so he made it easier for doctor's to, in absence of a will, cut said life support over the wishes of family -_-
I say he, technically he was our governor then and Texa govenors are some of the least powerful and most figurehead like, so really more blame probably lies with our legislatures and vice ^^;;;
. . . and seriously, if Bush cares sooo much about human life how about, Medicade, Social Security, Health Care, HMO's, Wellfare, GUN F'EN CONTROL, etc etc etc etc
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Date: 2005-03-22 07:39 pm (UTC)According to him, an infant born without a upper brain, as in hindbrain only will be able to: Smile, wink, breathe, respond to sound, basically *any* automated function caused by stimuli you can do with no functioning upper brain.
Which basically means this woman functions on the level of a goldfish at best.
All the "signs" the parents say prove theirs hope of recovery actually prove just the opposit. -_-
This whole mess is really _really_ sad.
I can't hate the parents for not wanting their child to die. That's got to be on of the hardest things a parent can accept. I can't blame the husband for wanting to respect his wife's husband.
I do think though, that the parent's are only seeing what they want to see and I think it's cruel of whatever doctor's and/or laywers are out there giving them false hope.
I think Congress and our dear president were completely and TOTALLY out of line and Bush's stance on this is totally incosistent with previouses stances on such issues, but of course, the big wealthy doctor's were losing moneys because people wanted their loved ones to remain on life support so he made it easier for doctor's to, in absence of a will, cut said life support over the wishes of family -_-
I say he, technically he was our governor then and Texa govenors are some of the least powerful and most figurehead like, so really more blame probably lies with our legislatures and vice ^^;;;
. . . and seriously, if Bush cares sooo much about human life how about, Medicade, Social Security, Health Care, HMO's, Wellfare, GUN F'EN CONTROL, etc etc etc etc