When a family member is sick, all we want to do is make them feel better.
When it’s a child especially, nothing else matters in the whole world until they get well. We comfort them and seek medical help as quickly as possible.
My granddaughter, Haley, did not have a good day from the time she was 4 years old. She labored to breath, struggled to sit up for herself and could not swallow even one piece of candy like other girls her age. Haley had a progressive and undiagnosed neurological condition which finally ended her life at age 10 last year.
Continue reading: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2011/11/05/after-daughters-medical-ordeal-call-to-fight-health-care-rationing/
Dr. Mark Mostert: Killing For Organs
There is little doubt that successful organ transplants make miracles out of miserable lives. Quality of life increases and patients are able to return to a fairly normal life. A parent survives to see kids get married. A child is gifted with a bright disease-free future.
A sibling receives an organ from a brother or a sister. When it all works properly the feel-good stories are hard to miss. However, there are many other stories that end in loss as significant numbers of people on donor lists die before a match is found or before they have moved up the list enough to be considered. (continue reading ...)
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/killing_for_organs.html