Thursday, September 27, 2012

There was a very sick two-year-old girl in the hospital.  No one was certain exactly what was going on (b/c they can't test for much), so they were treating her with several antibiotics hoping one might be appropriate.  She was in respiratory distress and they put her on CPAP (best they could do b/c can't intubate).  Her parents were sitting there looking sort of almost numb and I so wanted it to end well for them, this little girl, this family.  Anyway, she made it through 24 hours until last night when the hospital lost power and it didn't occur to anyone to turn on the generator.  She died within an hour.  Just like that, dead.  I'm told her chances were pretty poor regardless of the generator incident.  Either way, I can't get my head around some of this.

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