So very sad and tragic. Desperate parents trying desperate measures for their little boy's life.
Well that was a nice comment to start off with...
His Youtube plea is so heartfelt, and who is to say whether he may not be partially right. The UK medical authorities and the doctors in question will be scrambling embarrassingly over this if it turns out that there is real merit in Proton beam treatment but that the UK hospitals are just behind the times on this and draconian.
So ironic though that he says they did what they did because the hospital was, allegedly, threatening to bar them from the ward. He refers to the fear and stress of being under such a 'cruel' and unquestioning system, that they couldn't stay under it and had to get out to give their son the love he needed in his darkest hour of need. Most JW's cannot see the awful irony in this, in the parallels to the JW's merciless and cruel disfellowshipping and shunning policy of family who question and conscientiously dissent from certain teachings of JW's, that prevents children from being with parents and vice versa, etc.
I can't help but wonder if the distrust and lack of respect re blood transfusions that the Watchtower Society has cultivated in the minds of JW's has somehow rubbed off on these parents attitude in not trusting the UK medical authorities on the best treatment for their son.
I have to strongly disagree. We are in the UK and took to son last year to hospital as his wrist was sore. He was carefully examined by a pediatrician and we were told it was growing pains and we could go home. I could see my wife didn't agree so we requested a second opinion.
Only after the second opinion did we find out that he had an infection in his wrist bone, which required an immediate operation to drain the infection from the bone or else his hand would not have grown any more.
Post op they had trouble finding a vein in his foot for the antibiotic feed. Over and over again I held him screaming as they repeatedly stuck the needle in. Eventually I demanded an alternative. I quoted a famous quote "The definition of madness is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results". So they gave us oral antibiotics (takes longer) and guess what, he was home that day and is now fine.
But had we taken that first pediatrician's steer we would now have a child with a withered hand.
During the whole time in hopsital (and with both my childrens births) I was up and down corridors chasing for Doctors and nurses. I love the NHS, it is a marvellous instution, but the staff are incredibly overworked and mistakes do take place. And be under no illusion that money plays a part is what treatments they prescribe.
And why havn't these parents used this as an opportunity to preach about the Bible's resurrection hope? Didn't Paul say in scripture that Christians do not grieve as the rest do because of the resurrection hope? Yet these JW parents are acting more desperately than any worldly parents usually would.
After all, if their boy needed an emergency life-saving blood transfusion to cure his brain tumour, wouldn't they refuse to consent to that in the belief they will see him again soon in the resurrection?
Incredibly insensitive comment at this time.
The WT are heartless bastards, with screwed up beliefs, but let's not stoop to their shitty levels. We don't know what treatments that the family would be prepared to accept. In the UK JW kids will immediately get made a ward of court and get blood, so the Hopsital Liason Commitee's advice is to accept the blood. So this just isn't an issue over here. I know this from a HLC member's converstaion with me during the above stay in hopsital.
But the video clearly shows a family looking for treatment, not wanting for their child to die. So comments about preaching about their resurrection hope is utterley inappropriate.
