White cap: Information Marianne is a 79-year-old woman with hemorrhagic stroke. She has been placed on a respirator, unresponsive, pupils dilated and non-responsive to light. Physician recommends surgery to remove blood clot but does not offer much reassurance that she would recover function. She has no advance directives. Husband wants to try everything, but children believe she would not want the surgery and a poor quality of life, which they agree is the likely outcome.
Michael Schiavo stated that his wife would not have wanted to go on in a persistent vegetative state, yet he waited a long time to make that claim; thus, he could be said to have ignored his wife's wishes and violated her autonomy for many years. Terri Schiavo's parents stated that even if she had had a living will, they would have ignored it. Under cross-examination during trial, her parents also stated that they would have amputated all four of her limbs and sought open-heart surgery if needed to keep her alive. Again, this sentiment represents a clear violation of the principle of
Immediately after Emily developed the measles. Her mother was unable to care for her because she had to protect herself the new baby from the disease. Emily didn’t recover from the disease as expected. She became thin and withdrawn, even more than she was before. Upon recommendations, she sent Emily to a convalescent home where she could be better cared for.
In the beginning of the book, when Dave talks about when the family was once good, he calls his mom, “Mom”. He later on calls her “Mother” when she becomes abusive. He does this because he became distant from her when the abusive started. He didn’t feel safe referring to her as mom anymore because she wasn’t the nurturing mother that she once was. Before the abuse, Mother would’ve done anything for her family.
Terri Schiavo entered a persistent vegetative state in 1990 and would end up spending fifteen years of her life there. Doctors saw no hope for Terri and Michael, her husband, claimed it was his wife's wish to not be kept alive. Michael wanted her feeding tube removed, but Terri’s parents refused to let that happen. They hoped everyday that their daughter would somehow recover. Eventually, a bill was passed by George W. Bush, which gave hospitals the power to remove patients from life support.
When a child has a sickness that can lead to death and there is no cure, a mother would do anything in her will to help even if it means having another child. Parents were given the power to choose between several embryos, giving life to only one thought to be the best match. Parents can pick if they want abortion or not, so there is no reason why parents should decide if they want another child conceived or not. Donna Zammits gave birth to another child to see if the newborn would have the matching bone marrow needed to save her son. Turns out that the new born was not a match .Donna was disappointed at first but was still happy that she had a new addition to the family.
Hannah begs you to keep this confidential and not tell anyone especially her daughter, who she sees regularly, as her daughter will be very angry. Bi) How would you explain the term ‘confidentiality’ to Hannah? I would explain to Hannah that I do respect her wish to keep this information ‘confidential’, however due to the nature of the information she has divulged, I would have to inform management as she is putting herself at risk by throwing her medication away. This is not following her careplans and the medication has been prescribed to her for a reason and due to her regularly becoming ‘confused’ we cannot be sure that she is fully aware on what the medication is for. I would explain that we can keep certain things confidential such as opinions and beliefs but if information effects their received care or personal wellbeing/health then I have a duty of care to act upon this but only on a ‘needs to know’ basis.
One thing throughout the movie that irritated me was Peter’s parents trying to pressure Nita & Peter into trying to get the Heather the cochlear implant. She should have respected their decision. They did do research and met with families and came to the conclusion that it was not the best interest for them or for their daughter and the grandparents should have respected that decision. I feel like there is no right or wrong in these kind of situations. Pardon my language but it’s one of those damned if you and damned if you don’t situations.
When Barbara found out she was pregnant another time, she felt an abortion would be the best decision because she had little money to support her and her son already, and her mom said that she would not help her daughter with to have another baby. Barbara went through with the abortion, and even though she was set on the idea we could see that she was going through both physical and emotional pain both during and after the procedure. The story of Imaculee was also another insightful story. In this novel we learn that Imaculee was a young girl when the genocide in Rwanda broke out. The Hutu people were killing the Tutsis just because they were Tutsi.
The doctors couldn’t seem to make it stop are make her all better. She was ready to go, give up, but as a family we keep holding on not understanding her wishes of let me go this is horrific on my mind, body and soul please free me. All of the morphine and manmade medicine was doing her no good the pain was still persevering through. Definitely she wasn’t eating drinking are even trying to communicate any more. She had lost her will to go on with life.