Christine Bolden suffered a brain aneurysm while pregnant with twins. They were born early, and then she died (April 20, 2012)
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A 26-year-old pregnant mom from Michigan suffered a deadly aneurysm and was pronounced brain dead last month, but was still able to give birth to her twin boys April 17. What a miracle!
This is a tragic story with a bittersweet ending. Christine Bolden — a 26-year-old Minnesotan, who was healthy and pregnant with twins — was walking with her family last month, when she fell and suffered a deadly aneurysm.
Doctors declared Christine brain dead, but her body remained on life support and housed her twin boys — Alexander and Nicholas — until they were brought to 25 weeks and were incredibly born April 17.
The twins born to Christine Bolden shortly before she died of a brain aneurysm. (April 20, 2012)
“Christine’s grandmother told them not to numb her because maybe when they cut her (for the C-section) she would have felt that, and woke up saying, ‘wait a minute I can feel that! What is you all doing to me!’ But it didn’t happen,’”
Christine’s aunt, Danielle Bolden, told WOODTV8. “God could have took her and the boys. But he left the boys. That’s a miracle.”
She added, “Once the babies were born; that was the end of her.”
The twins were born premature and barely weighed more than one pound a piece. That said, they are expected to live — which is quite the miracle.
Our thoughts and prayers are with Christine’s family, her boyfriend and her three year old son.
Culled from HollywoodLife.
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Simply Cheska..
No ‘moral certainty’ that brain death is really death
ReplyDeleteRome, February 2011: A prominent American professor of Catholic medical ethics says said that there is no ‘moral certitude’ that a patient is really dead when the ‘brain death’ criteria are used. Professor E. Christian Brugger is a Senior Fellow of Ethics at the Culture of Life Foundation. He said that the validity of ‘brain death’ is based on a “scientific premise that such and such empirical indicators correspond to an absence of human life.” In fact, he says, ‘brain dead’ patients on ventilator support “have been shown to undergo respiration at the cellular level… assimilate nutrients… fight infection and foreign bodies… maintain homeostasis… eliminate, detoxify and recycle cell waste throughout the body… maintain body temperature… grow proportionately… heal wounds… exhibit cardiovascular and hormonal stress responses to noxious stimuli such as incisions… gestate a fetus… and even undergo puberty.” In other words, ‘brain death’ criteria are not accurate in signifying that death has occurred, and fail to meet Pope John Paul’s definition of real death as “the total disintegration of that unity and integrated whole that is the personal self.” (Extract from Life Site News http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/no-moral-certainty-that-brain-death-is-really-death-prominent-catholic-ethi)
Dear Ken
ReplyDeleteThanks for this insight. I sincerely did not understand the concept of being brain dead this deep...
Dear Cheska,
ReplyDeleteI rely on the medical experts like Prof Brugger and also Dr. Paul A. Byrne, Neonatologist, Director of Neonatology and Director of Pediatrics, who said: “Brain death was concocted, it was made up in order to get organs. It was never based on science.”
The news pages tell of many so-called "brain-dead" patients who have revived and left hospital alive. Some examples in recent years include: 2011 - Sam Schmid in Tucson AZ, and Madeleine Gauron in Quebec, and Gloria Cruz in Darwin, and 2007 - Zach Dunlap in Wichita Falls TX. More info: http://OrganFacts.net/notdead/