Laela
Sidestepping the "lynch mob"
I've been having a great Sunday ... 
But I just got off the phone with mom and I'm a bit sad.
My older sis is an RN in another state who takes care of disabled children who are wards of the state. I'd recently visited sis and met these precious lambs..one of them, a young girl who can't breathe normally without dribbling. Her body is twisted and she can't do anything for herself. She was the victim of shaken baby syndrome when her mother abused her as an infant. It hurt my heart to see young children live like vegetables, but my heart is also soothed by people like my sis and the nurses who help her with these children 24/7.
Last night this little girl died. What makes it worse is she's what they call DNA ... if something happens to her, she can't be revived. So when the paramedics came, they started to take action but when they read her chart, they stopped and put away their equipment to LET her die. I was like WHAT?! Jesus. I can't in good concsious just let a child die ... but that is the law.
My heart goes out to my sis and those nurses I've met, for all the care they've has put forth for this child whose own mother didn't want her.
Please keep children like this little girl in your prayers. She never lived a normal life. She never got to sit on daddy's lap. She couldn't even tell them when she was in pain. I sometimes take for granted that I can walk, talk, breathe and for some of these children, it's a blessing that they can do anything that we sometimes take for granted. This really hits the PAUSE button for me.
I am comforted in knowing this child is at peace and in a better place. May she rest in peace.
But I just got off the phone with mom and I'm a bit sad.
My older sis is an RN in another state who takes care of disabled children who are wards of the state. I'd recently visited sis and met these precious lambs..one of them, a young girl who can't breathe normally without dribbling. Her body is twisted and she can't do anything for herself. She was the victim of shaken baby syndrome when her mother abused her as an infant. It hurt my heart to see young children live like vegetables, but my heart is also soothed by people like my sis and the nurses who help her with these children 24/7.
Last night this little girl died. What makes it worse is she's what they call DNA ... if something happens to her, she can't be revived. So when the paramedics came, they started to take action but when they read her chart, they stopped and put away their equipment to LET her die. I was like WHAT?! Jesus. I can't in good concsious just let a child die ... but that is the law.
My heart goes out to my sis and those nurses I've met, for all the care they've has put forth for this child whose own mother didn't want her.
Please keep children like this little girl in your prayers. She never lived a normal life. She never got to sit on daddy's lap. She couldn't even tell them when she was in pain. I sometimes take for granted that I can walk, talk, breathe and for some of these children, it's a blessing that they can do anything that we sometimes take for granted. This really hits the PAUSE button for me.
I am comforted in knowing this child is at peace and in a better place. May she rest in peace.
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