Boy, 13, wakes up a day before doctors end his life support...

[aaronleland]

US boy awakes before doctors pull plug

A 13-year-old boy in the US state of Alabama regained consciousness just after his parents signed the paperwork to donate his organs.

Trenton McKinley suffered severe brain trauma when a utility trailer he was riding flipped over and fell on his head in March.

Doctors told his parents he would not recover and that he matched with five children who needed organ transplants.

A day before his life support was to end, Trenton showed signs of awareness.

The teenager suffered seven skull fractures in the accident in Mobile, Alabama.

According to his mother, Jennifer Reindl, Trenton has since undergone several craniotomy surgeries, suffering kidney failure and cardiac arrest.

At one point, Ms Reindl said, Trenton died on the table for 15 minutes, after which doctors told her he would "never be normal again".

Ms Reindl told CBS News that she agreed to sign the organ donation papers when she learned her son's organs could save five other children.

"We said yes, that also ensured that they would continue to keep Trenton alive to clean his organs for the donation," Ms Reindl said, recalling how her son regained consciousness in March.

"The next day he was scheduled to have his final brain wave test to call his time of death, but his vitals spiked so they cancelled the test."

Amazing story. A day away from having the plug pulled on him, and two months later he's recovering, and already speaking to the media.

 

[there4eyeM]

Would it be a very perverse person who asked how the other five children are doing?

 

[aaronleland]

Would it be a very perverse person who asked how the other five children are doing?

Oh, they must be pissed.

 

[del]

hard to believe that medical care is a little iffy in alabama

 

[RodISHI]

Texas has a stellar reputation on medical care too! Well if the parent has a gun.

‘Brain dead’ son enjoys Xmas after dad armed with gun refuses to let medics end his life

The Pickering family from Texas is celebrating a miracle this Christmas, which so nearly did not happen. With doctors about to turn off a life support machine keeping George Pickering’s son alive, a desperate and armed George intervened, determined his son would live.
This year has been an eventful one for George Pickering II and his son George Pickering III. George Jr. has made a full recovery after being in a coma. With doctors set to turn off his life support machine, his savior proved to be his own father.

Upon hearing that doctors had given up hope, a drunk and armed George Sr. marched towards the Tomball Regional Medical Center in Houston, Texas, determined to make sure his son was given more time to make a recovery, even if it meant he would spend time in jail.

George Sr. barricaded himself inside with his 27-year-old son as he managed to hold off police, before something amazing happened.

 

[aaronleland]

hard to believe that medical care is a little iffy in alabama

They interrupted the kid in the middle of doing jumping jacks to tell him they had to pull the plug on him.