11 Year Old Responds To Stimuli

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Guess maybe doctors are wrong again about a person being in a vegatable state???
God Bless her!
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foxnews.com/story/0,2933,182134,00.html

SPRINGFIELD, Mass — Doctors say new tests are needed on a severely beaten 11-year-old girl, who officials said was responding to medical stimuli and breathing on her own a day after Massachusetts’ highest court ruled the state had the authority to remove her from life support.
Denise Monteiro, a spokeswoman for the state’s Department of Social Services, which has custody of Haleigh Poutre, said doctors will perform more tests “to see what the movements mean.”

She would not say how Haleigh was responding or to what tests. The girl has been in a coma for four months and thought to be in an irreversible vegetative state.

LOVE THIS QUOTE:

One of Strickland’s lawyers said Wednesday he wants more time to decide whether to bring the case before a federal judge.

“This is exactly the point we were trying to make. What’s the rush? Just give her a chance,” attorney John Egan said. “Medical science is not that certain. We would hope the whole process will slow down, and everyone will step back and end the compulsion to end her life.”

Haleigh’s doctors have said her brain stem is damaged and she would die within a few days without a feeding tube.
 
Many prayers going up now for this sweet, innocent child. My goodness, it has only been 4 MONTHS–not 4 YEARS!!! What is the hurry to end her life? Perhaps someone would like to adopt her, as she is now an orphan. I’m glad John Egan has some sense and compassion for this girl.:crying:
 
She is fortunate that her father’s defense needs her alive.

If she were another Terry Shiavo or they wanted her organs for transplant she would be long gone.

That is why I will not agree to organ donation.
 
I will pray for this little girl that has seen more trouble in her young life. I know God is watching over her, and I pray that His will be done, and not the courts rule be done.
 
Yes, I’m praying too for Haleigh; we should remember to pray for her mother and abusive stepfather too as they both seem to be in more danger of death than the child: a death that never ends.
 
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Rosalinda:
Yes, I’m praying too for Haleigh; we should remember to pray for her mother and abusive stepfather too as they both seem to be in more danger of death than the child: a death that never ends.
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If I read the story correctly, her “mother” commited suicide shortly after this incident. Her birth mother was an abusive wretch to her child, and her birth mother’s sister adopted Haleigh.

What a wretched bunch of adults.
 
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Giannawannabe:
Many prayers going up now for this sweet, innocent child. My goodness, it has only been 4 MONTHS–not 4 YEARS!!! What is the hurry to end her life? Perhaps someone would like to adopt her, as she is now an orphan. I’m glad John Egan has some sense and compassion for this girl.:crying:
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I’ll do it, in a heatbeat! I’ll adopt her, no problem. I don’t care what her problems are or what future problems she may have.
 
Some news on the case:
Panel Will Review Case of Girl in Massachusetts Euthanasia Fight
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
January 24, 2006

**Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) – **Governor Mitt Romney yesterday announced that he will put together an independent panel to investigate the case of Haleigh Poutre, an 11 year-old Massachusetts girl who is at the center of a euthanasia battle similar to that of Terri Schiavo.

Poutre was beaten into a coma by her adoptive parents and was placed into state custody. State officials pressed for and won a case, over her stepfather’s objections, to have Poutre euthanized.

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Haleigh’s doctors have said her brain stem is damaged and she would die within a few days without a feeding tube.
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Wouldn’t that happen even if she wasn’t brain damaged???
 
Mom of one:
More good news about her conditon! She is responding more and has been moved to a rehab center.

boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/01/27/girl_with_damage_to_brain_is_sent_to_rehab_center/
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''I wouldn’t give up before a year," said Dr. Douglas Katz, medical director of the traumatic brain injury program at Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital.

Katz said many patients in a minimally conscious state can track movements with their eyes and even pick up objects. But only when they begin to pick up objects and use them appropriately are they believed to have gained a higher level of consciousness.

GIVE UP ON HER??? She is repsonding yet they are still talking about her as if she has no hope for a normal life…UGH these type of doctors need to get out of the profession if they have no compassion and no hope for their patients…
Beckers
 
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Haleigh’s doctors have said her brain stem is damaged and she would die within a few days without a feeding tube.
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You don’t have to be brain damaged to die if you don’t receive food and water.

Wesley J Smith says:
"She will be reexamined to measure her current apparent responsiveness.

But be warned: Just because she may be conscious, that does not mean she won’t be dehydrated to death. Conscious cognitively disabled patients are dehydrated all over the country."
wesleyjsmith.com/
 
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