Sunday, 23 November 2008
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Rudeness
If you haven't noticed I am someone who is strong and grounded in my faith, it is very important to me as is praying and relying on God for things. Recently an older lady in my church who is also friends with my family had a familly health issue, her great grandson was born way prematurely. Of course his lungs haven't believed right, he is 6months at this point, he was doing very good until a few weeks ago. We got a call for the prayer chain that young Brayden had taken a turn for the worse and the nurses where telling the family to take the baby off the respirators and "just let him die."
Well being believers in God and having faith seeing how far God has brought this little baby so far, the family said "no we have faith that God would heal him and if it is in his will God would take him." The nurses called them so many rude things one of which being inhuman because they kept him on teh respirator. Then another nurse had the audacity to say "take him off the respirator and then see what your God will do." I couldn't believe it when my friend told us this! I was furious that a medical professional would say something like this to a grieving family who are praying for the safety and health of this young child.
Well we heard yesterday that the baby is doing better. All of his vital signs are back. He is breathing on his own with the help of a trac that they put in this week. He is doing a whole let better and of course we attribute that to our prayers and faith in God. If the family had taken the respirator off, the baby well would have died too early it seems. Prayer is a powerful thing and so is faith. But even if you don't have the same faith as others, or you don't believe what they do. I still think it is wrong to criticize them for it and say rude things. I would never imagine telling someone of a different faith they are wrong, inhuman or say something like "take him off the resporator and see what your God will do." that is just so inconsiderate and rude and so many other things I cannot think of.
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Comments (4)
That was rude. No one should have their beliefs mocked like that, especially not in such a stressful situation.
It's incredibly out of line anyone in a medical professor to be so cold-hearted as to practically force the family to kill their child that way. I'm glad that family perservered and kept their faith! ^_^
Fortunately those nurses were at least taken off the ward where the baby was and we're not sure how far else the repremand went.
*HUGS* and prayers for the baby.Â