So, I haven't changed my name here, but I have changed my life. Oops.
paperdol=the bestest babysitter ever.
There's almost no upside to Grace getting a trache (imagine toddler!Noah and toddler!Grace and anything that he might try to shove into her trache.... shudder) except now the tape is off and we can see her whole face.
The hospital won't allow me to get a DNR for her. Legal or not?
I was going to say something earlier about how we had to wake Ellie up when she was very small to feed her, but then I remembered that Noah is a big boy now!
He is. But in terms of adjusted age, he's only 3 weeks.
Spot the phishing expeditions.
What does the sidebar say? Wanna know!
The hospital won't allow me to get a DNR for her. Legal or not?
Hmm. I can see there
might
be ethical grey area, and everything I know about medical law I learnt from ER and the internet, but it seems you ought to be able to do something of the kind.
That's a quandry. I'm guessing it varies state to state. Other than that, I have no clue.
Love Noah's chunky knees.
Brain is bumblebee in a flower garden. Please send smoke or whatever makes bees stop. Can't keep train of thought...oh, that!
handwaves
Devi is posted watch fridge. For 2 hours now. Makes me jumpy.
Hey, Noah's bigger than her.
See? Maddening bee.
The hospital won't allow me to get a DNR for her. Legal or not?
FWIW, the PICU chief here (I was very vague about specifics) called bullshit on this. He said that if the mom judges this to be the best course, her judgment has to be given tremendous weight. Either the hospital should agree, or the neonatology attending should schedule a meeting with her and at least one MD or nurse from every service that's consulting on the baby, to sit down and all talk together about this decision and why they do or don't think it's the right decision at this time. But simply refusing or telling mom she "can't do that" is in his opinion possibly legal but definitely bullshit.
I'm so sorry you and your beloveds are going through this awful wringer.
I don't know about the legality but I hope they took it seriously and provided some real information about why they couldn't do it, instead of brushing off what is a very important request. Call the most important person there that you can get a hold of if they did that.
Random question of the day-- does anyone know how to type an Umlaut on LJ?
Same way you would any special character in HTML, I think.
[link]
an Umlaut
Sorry.
Kat. I am beyond sorry for all the stress and non-cooperativeness you are experiencing.
mac goes in for non-biggie foot surgery early tomorrow morning and we will bein the hospital 1-2 days.
Kat, I'm so sorry all this is happening. I wish the best resolution possible, for all of you, soonest.
My foot-surgery ~ma is strong, so I send some to mac.
