Charlotte Wyatt
This is the kind of thing that makes my stomach turn.
It had been an enormous fight,and she had made such improvements it was hard to see in the happy, responsive baby the same infant the doctors had characterized the year before as deaf, blind, with no hope to ever leave her plastic box or get any better, and in constant pain– the baby they had decided was better off dead.
She had proven them all wrong, and on Christmas she came home for the first time unattended by any but her parents.
NOBODY has the right to say someone is “better off dead.” I am so pissed I can’t even write.
I’ve worked with thousands of these kids and I can say, without any hesitation, that every single child had a life worth living; they laugh, they smile, they cry, they touch, they communicate (not always with a voice, but they communicate). They learn to compensate for their disabilities and it’s amazing to watch how they manage. Often these kids grow up to be so much stronger, emotionally, than any of us could ever hope to be. And they don’t live with horrid pain and discomfort. THAT is such a LIE. And every doctor knows it. Charlotte deserves to live.
Charlotte now has a viral infection and her condition is worsening because she is not being treated:
Charlotte’s viral infection is worsening, and in an emergency injunction Justice Hedley has ruled that she should be allowed to die. The Wyatts are pleading for their daughter, and Charlotte is fighting for life– why can’t she be given the chance she so desperately needs?
Pray, hope, whatever, for Charlotte’s life. If this was your child, wouldn’t you want to fight for her life? How would you feel about a judge deciding that you shouldn’t try to save her?
WHAT THE HELL?
Update: This, from RightGirl in comments at Raven’s post:
The feeling in countries with “free” healthcare is that Charlotte is better off dead because we don’t want to pay for her. The same reason I can’t get an MRI in Toronto, or my uncle can’t get chemo in Montreal, Charlotte isn’t allowed a chance because she is a high-cost, low-yield patient. The doctors aren’t looking at her with doctors’ eyes; they’re looking at her with administrators’ eyes.
SICK.
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Alabama Improper says:
OK, obviously I have not been following this story. What in the hell is her life doing in a judge’s hand in the first damned place?
mech says:
Amazing how things change over the years. When I was in high school I joined a trip to DC and got to debate a similar Supreme court case before an auditorium of fellow students. The doc wanted to do a minor operation to let the baby live, the parents wanted to let the baby die. I argued on behalf of the doc and baby, won the agreement of the audience and found that the Supremes voted the same way in the actual case. Life is not always easy, but it is precious.
Alabama Improper says:
Just to let you know I did go to the link and read the bio on the little girl. But I still don’t understand how it got into a judge’s hands. Baffling.
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Juleni says:
Thanks Beth for writing about charlotte. I’ve been hoping that the word about her would get out more, since I heard about her around the time that we were fighting so hard that last fight for Terri S. My hopes are that she will get to go HOME to her MOM and DAD!! And that it will happen SOON! Sicko doctors….