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« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2008, 07:32:55 PM » |
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Oh my, that is a sad story, but it sounds like she did not let her disability limit her. She also managed to inspire others during her life...what a tragedy that they could not get a generator going. I can't imagine lying there and how she and her family must have felt as she suffocated. My prayers for her family!
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« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2008, 07:42:52 PM » |
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OMG! How horrible! You would think that emergency services could have found one somewhere!
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« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2008, 08:24:26 PM » |
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Wow! That is so sad - that story made me cry.
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« Reply #4 on: May 28, 2008, 08:28:27 PM » |
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Wow!  I feel like such a whiner! Thanks for that story Julie!  |
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« Reply #5 on: May 28, 2008, 08:49:58 PM » |
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That is a sad story.....but a bit unbelievable!
Really, in this day and age why she couldn't have another form of ventilation? We have thousands of people that live everyday at home on home ventilators! A spinal deformity would not have affected home vents with back up batteries!
Her death is a tragedy and her doctor or whoever decided that an archaic iron lung was a suitable form of treatment should be sued! This was preventable!
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« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2008, 02:56:24 PM » |
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Sassy C, I appreciate your perspective from a nurses point of view. I didn't even think about that. How sad that she lived like that and didn't have to.
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« Reply #7 on: May 31, 2008, 11:18:06 AM » |
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Thanks SassyC. That's what I thought when I read this story.
Also, I can't figure out why someone in the family hadn't thought about the possibility of a power failure and had a generator hooked to the house. Given the situation, that would have been one of the first things I did.
I also am amazed that in all those years they never had a power failure until now.
Sad.
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« Reply #8 on: May 31, 2008, 11:26:09 AM » |
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LJ, I thought the same thing you did. As a matter of fact, I was surprised anyone would be in an iron lung, I thought those things were not used anymore.
Sassy, good point! I don't know enough medically speaking about the effect of a spinal deformity on the use of a ventilator. But since you do, it seems like this woman was not receiving the care or quality of life that she might have for so many years.
Tam, I also wonder like you, why emergency personnel could not have found a generator to save her life.
All the above being said, I still marvel that this woman was able to accomplish all she did and that she did manage to make the best of a bad situation!
Sad, sad, story! And sad that a power outage took her life, when she had already overcome so much adversity!
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« Reply #9 on: May 31, 2008, 08:52:56 PM » |
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I guess I was a bit shocked and angry when I first read this story....but bottom line is she's dead....that cannot be changed and focusing on the "what ifs" is unproductive. Lipstick you are a wise women to praise and look for the positives in this story. Despite the hand she was dealt she did accomplish great things!  to that and to her! |
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