Monday, May 01, 2006
New Andrea Clark Post on Daily Kos
Andrea Clark has been ill a long time. One of the first "blue babies" saved by modern medical technology, she had some handicaps and heart problems but had a satisfactory life with her knitting and her online friends. But she has the misfortune to live and become sicker in Texas, where hospitals and doctors decide who receives continued life-support under the most draconian "futile care" law in the nation.
Ten days ago an "ethics committee" at her hospital said they would pull the plug on her respirator and dialysis machine despite the fact she was fully cognisant when awake and off of her massive doses of pain medications. Her doctor said this was Andrea's wish but when asked the next day she wrote her sister "I want to live."
Her wishes don't matter.
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