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March 12th, 2008 at 4:36 pm

Continue to Pray for Baby Charlotte

in: Announcements.

A long time ago, I posted a post about a little baby in the UK who may become a victim of the UK’s socialized medicine and euthanasia through the use of a court order “Do Not Resuscitate” medical order. Here it is again…

Charlotte Paige Wyatt was born after an emergency caesareans at 26 weeks, three months early on the 21’st of October 2003 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Porstmouth, England.

At birth she weighed only 458 grams, and was barely five inches long. She was immediately put in an incubator, and it was three months time before Darren and Debbie were able to hold her.

But Charlotte improved excellently, and by July of 2004 she was eating from a spoon, and required hardly any oxygen. At this time, she could see and hear without any problem.

St. Mary’s hospital then decided that it was time to move Charlotte out of the intensive care unit, and into the children’s ward. Almost immediately, she got a blood infection, and started needing more and more oxygen. Then the day came when her parents were rung up and told that Charlotte’s lungs had collapsed, and she had been put on a ventilator.

Thrice Charlotte was put on a ventilator, leaving her in September needing an oxygen level of 100%. The doctors at Portsmouth then decided that she would never recover, she would be always blnd and deaf, in constant pain, and unable to communicate for the rest of her life. They urged Mr. Justice Hedley to allow them not to care for her if she would need to be ventilated again. Her parents felt she was a fighter and should be given every chance, and they pleaded for her right to life, but the medical establishment was all on the other side. The Judge decided in favour of the hospital.

After the Judge decided that she did not have to receive aggressive care, most Doctors thought that Charlotte would die within few months– during the winter, from another infection– but she did not die, and instead prospered. Slowly, slowly she started getting better. She started being able to respond to her parents again, to laugh, to cry, to smile, and now she can see and hear. She also has started to be able to take food by mouth again, when they place small amounts on her lower lip. Her lungs have grown stronger, and now she needs only 45%, instead of the 100% she had needed last autumn.

In the middle of March, her parents went again to the Judge, and asked him to rescind his order, telling him that their daughter was no longer in constant pain, and was no longer unable to respond. The Judge “was pleased” with Charlotte’s improvements, but listened to the hospital, which said that they were not good enough to warrant resuscitation if she got sick again. He did however say that he would hear them again after Easter.

On 21 April, the Judge again decided against removing the Do Not Resucitate (DNR) order from Charlotte, a decision her parents will appeal to the Appeals Court, and, if necessary, the European Court.

Many times Charlotte’s parents have asked for her medical records, and their attorney has also, but so far to no avail. The hospital, defensive after being shown wrong in so much of what they said, is unwilling to give any information that might show how they have failed.

But Charlotte is still fighting for life, though her case in the English Judiciary does not look hopeful.

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