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Family of Oakland Girl on Ventilator Furious After Meeting With Hospital Officials (Tonsil Surgery)
Contra Costa Times ^ | 12/20/2013 | Kristin J. Bender, David DeBolt and Katie Nelson

Posted on 12/22/2013 4:26:20 PM PST by nickcarraway

The family fighting to keep a brain-dead 13-year-old girl on medical support through Christmas blasted administrators at Children's Hospital Oakland on Thursday evening, saying that hospital officials told them in a private meeting that the girl had to be taken off her ventilator "quickly."

"They said, 'What don't you understand?' She is dead, dead, dead,'" said Omari Sealey, the uncle of Jahi McMath, the Oakland teen who has been kept alive by machines since complications from a tonsil surgery last week in a case that has brought national attention and prayers from social media users around the world. "They just kept referring to her as 'a body.'"

The family's attorney, Christopher Dolan, said he will head to court on Friday morning to seek an injunction to halt any hospital intervention. Hospital officials have not given a timeline to remove the girl from the ventilator, he added

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"They keep saying she is 'dead, dead, dead' and I am hoping the courts will say 'no, no, no,'" Dolan said in a Thursday night news conference. "We just saw her; she is a beautiful young lady. She responds to her mother's touch. She is warm."

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Jahi had tonsil surgery to help her with sleep apnea, weight gain and other health problems and began bleeding from her nose and mouth and experienced cardiac arrest later that night.

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(Excerpt) Read more at contracostatimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: california; jahimcmath; medicallynching; oakland; obamacare; omarisealey; racisthealthare; thankyouobama; whopaysforhercare
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To: Mears

It is amazing to think how tonsils used to be removed for no reason whatsoever. I still have mine and have had no problems, I was born during that period when tonsillectomy was considered the thing to do but my parents didn’t go for it.


101 posted on 12/23/2013 10:06:50 AM PST by RipSawyer (The TREE currently falling on you actually IS worse than a Bush.)
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To: beelzepug

I know the sore throat and “brick on my head” feeling of exhaustion often. CPAP doesn’t look like much fun.


102 posted on 12/23/2013 10:17:06 AM PST by Myrddin
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To: RginTN

Good for you. Europe is beautiful...


103 posted on 12/23/2013 10:23:49 AM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: editor-surveyor

99% of appendicitis can be eliminated by high colonic irrigation.

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there is nothing like a high colonic with appendisites to rupture the appendix.

And if you are suggesting prophylactic high colonics, well, to throw your argument back at you: you have some sort of problem with God’s design??


104 posted on 12/23/2013 1:08:49 PM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: Chickensoup

Nonsense flows freely!

Irrigation removes the infection.


105 posted on 12/23/2013 1:16:46 PM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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