I can tell you, from personal experience, and one of the first signs of my ex's dealings back with the JW's...we had our son in for minor surgery, and the question came up for blood, he snatched the paperwork away from me and put NO on the form. I lost my mind, I told him he didn't have the right to make that decision without me, and who was he to decide whether my son had blood to save his life or not? Up until that moment, he had no interest in paperwork, making the appointment, etc...not until they came to that part. It took the doctor, the head of the hospital, etc to come in there and inform him that the minor surgery involved would more than likely not involve blood. As it was, I demanded new paperwork & signed it myself. I don't friggen think so!! Anyway, he'll make sure they refuse any transfusions. Self righteous bunch of.......this all just makes me ill.
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JW Baby
by Seeking Knowledge inmy ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both jw's).
turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice.
it's the rh factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this.
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Can anyone help me? Loved one being torn away
by heart broken ini am not going to divulge any names or contact details as i do not what this being taken much further.. i will cut to the chase, i have fallen in love with a jehova's witness.
i am not a jehova's witness... can you see where this is going?
i have been told that her being in love with me is strictly against jw "policy"... now, i have been scowering the net for days now, becomming increasingly insomniate and i have to admit, i have found nothing to support this warning.
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Sorry to hear that Heartbroken...but at least you found it all out before you got married and/or had children.
Chin up, you'll find someone who will make you happy and hopefully will have beliefs you can both live with.
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JW Baby
by Seeking Knowledge inmy ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both jw's).
turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice.
it's the rh factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this.
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Forgot to add: She was told by her doctor that they are to have no more children. Apparently before she became pregnant with this one, she had suffered a couple miscarriages, which the RH factor increases with each pregnancy, so she KNEW the consequences.
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JW Baby
by Seeking Knowledge inmy ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both jw's).
turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice.
it's the rh factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this.
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From what I understand, when the offer was made for the shot, she refused it based on her religion. She was crying at work for about a month afterwards, tormented no doubt, but continued to refuse the shot. We all hoped for the best, it's not the baby's fault of course. It's tragic at best. I don't know if the baby is doing good, or what his outcome is, but I will know more today I hope as I must deal with the ex in picking up my son. Needless to say, this has brought some issues to the top in our custody case.
Thanks for the info everyone, I was hoping for better news.
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JW Baby
by Seeking Knowledge inmy ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both jw's).
turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice.
it's the rh factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this.
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agreed. It's sad to know that maybe they could have prevented this....they did at least know it was a possiblity...their mindset will never cease to amaze me.
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JW Baby
by Seeking Knowledge inmy ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both jw's).
turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice.
it's the rh factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this.
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My ex's wife just had their new baby (they are both JW's). Turns out that the baby has been born with blood poisoning, an underdeveloped liver and severe jaundice. It's the RH factor problem, she was warned, and refused the shot she could have taken to possibly prevent this. Anyone have any experience in this happening?? They currently have the baby under "light therapy" for the jaundice, but what about the rest? My heart dropped when I heard this news. Poor baby.
SK
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I Love It When The Words Are Wrong..
by Englishman inmy old boss was forever going on about us being careful "not to set any presidents".. hl's friend's ex-hubby needs some surgery on his knee to have "his cartridge removed".
she's signed an affy-david as part of the divorce process.
meanwhile he spends his time in night clubs watching the cadbury.. jenny, the pub's landlady, took the quiz a couple of weeks back and questioned us about "far from the maddening crowd".
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How about "it's a MUTE point" instead of a MOOT point!! that one drives me crazy..
Another is more of a typing issue....."tomarrow" and "congradulations" ERG......
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Postal Worker--joke--please don't be offended!
by Seeking Knowledge injust to put you in the christmas spirit.
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Just to put you in the Christmas spirit:
There was this fellow who worked for the post office who's job it was to process all the mail that had illegible addresses. One day a letter came to his desk, addressed in a shaky handwriting to God. He thought "Oh boy, better open this one & see what it's all about" so he opened it & read:
"Dear God,
I am an 83 year old widow living on a very small pension. Yesterday someone stole my purse. It had $100 in it, which was all I had until my next pension check. Next Sunday is Christmas and I had invited two of my friends over for dinner. Without that money, I have nothing to buy food with. I have no family to turn to and you are my only hope. Can you please help me?"
The postal worker was touched, and went around showing the letter to all the others. Each one of them dug into their wallet & came up with a few dollars. By the time he made the rounds, they had collected $96. which they put into an envelope & sent to the lady. The rest of the day, the postal workers felt the warm glow of the kind thing they had done.
Christmas came & went, a few days later another letter came from the old lady to God, all the workers gathered around & read it:
"Dear God,
How can I ever thank you for what you did for me? Because of you gift of love, I was able to fix a glorious dinner for my friends. We had a nice day and I told my friends of you wonderful gift. By the way, there was $4 missing, I think it must have been those thieving bastards at the post office"
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Postal Worker--joke--please don't be offended!
by Seeking Knowledge injust to put you in the christmas spirit.
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Postal Worker--joke--please don't be offended!
by Seeking Knowledge injust to put you in the christmas spirit.
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