Brought By San Diego Top News Examiner. December 21, 2013
The tonsil surgery tragedy following a routine tonsillectomy to cure a 13-year-old's sleep apnea has a mom fighting for her daughter. As of Friday, the tonsil surgery tragedy is playing out in the court. "This child is warm. She is soft to the touch. If you rub her foot, her foot curls in, The mother has yelled in her ear, and the daughter has lifted up her arms," says the 13-year-old brain-dead girl's family attorney, according to a Dec. 20, 2013, NBC Bay Area news report.
On Friday, a judge ordered a temporary restraining order to prevent doctors at Oakland Children's Hospital from taking 13-year-old Jahi McMath off life support. However, during Friday's hearing, Jahi McMath's family and doctors agreed to consult an independent neurologist to further examine the brain-dead girl and to determine her condition. Until then, Jahi McMath is to remain on a Ventilator and will continue to receive intravenous fluids.
"I won't let them take her to the coroner's office," says Jahi McMath's mom about her brain-dead daughter. "They owe her another chance."
When Jahi went into the hospital on Monday for her Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy to cure her sleep apnea, doctors told her family that this would be an "in and out procedure."
However, about 45 minutes after having had her tonsil surgery, the already alert, talking, and eating a popsicle 13-year-old girl began bleeding from her mouth and nose while in the intense care unit. "It was normal," said one of the nurses.
When Jahi's grandmother, who is a nurse at another hospital, asked several times for a doctor, she was given a bigger container instead so that Jahi could bleed into it. According to court documents Jahi ended up suffering a heart attack, "fell into a comatose state," and was declared brain dead by doctors at the hospital.
Jahi's uncle told the Daily News that doctors at the Oakland Children's Hospital said that they wanted "the body" out of the hospital room as soon as possible because the 13-year-old was "dead, dead, dead."
"In the meeting we requested a feeding tube and they told us "we don't feed the dead," Omari Sealey told the News late Thursday after the distraught family had a meeting with the Dr. David Durand, the hospital's head of pediatrics. "They didn't refer to her as a patient, they called her a body". It was by far the coldest and most heartless meeting we have had."
During Friday's hearing, Jahi's mom pleaded to the Judge to have compassion for her daughte's tonsil surgery tragedy. "She is alive. I believe in God and that He can heal all. God created Jahi. He can save her. Help me, please".
OMG I am never gonna let my daughter undergo a tonsillectomy ever?
She was supposed to have one in the near future.