Another family cries for help: Marine veteran Michael Shomate ruptured a brain aneurysm and suffered cardiac arrest on May 26, and was declared brain dead less than 24 hours later.
(Even the American Academy of Neurology’s brain death guideline says you must wait at least 24 hours after injury to declare brain death.)
According to his wife, he is now being denied treatment even though he still has vital signs:
“My husband was in full recovery mode after the aneurism and three cardiac arrests with his body returning to normal levels. Now they are just letting him sit there with no treatment because they said you can't treat a dead body.”
Dead people don’t have vital signs — Michael Shomate is critically ill, but he is not dead.
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Doctors want to perform a brain death exam on Annelise Camp. Part of this exam is the apnea test, in which Annelise will be disconnected from her ventilator for ten minutes or more and observed for spontaneous breathing.
The apnea test, part of the American Academy of Neurology’s (AAN) brain death examination, can increase brain damage and entails significant risks.
The apnea test is unverified, and even the AAN Guideline states that there is a lack of scientific evidence to support the recommended parameters of the apnea test.
In describing the parameters for the apnea test, the Guideline states: ��Selection of targets for this challenge is arbitrary because no scientific data demonstrate specific PaCO2 above which medullary chemoreceptors would prompt respiration if they were functional.”
Dr. Alan Shewmon has published multiple cases of patients who failed to breathe during their apnea tests, but then began breathing after their support was withdrawn. Thus, the apnea test does not reliably achieve its goals.
In addition to being scientifically unverified, the apnea test is risky for a patient not yet known to be brain dead.
The Guideline lists the following risks of the apnea test: hypoxemia, hypotension, arrhythmias, pneumothorax, and hemodynamic compromise with cardiovascular collapse requiring cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
These types of complications are extremely detrimental for a neurologically injured patient with tenuous cerebral blood flow, and can cause further brain damage.
Incredibly, despite these risks, the Guideline states, “clinicians do not need to obtain informed consent,” for the apnea test except as required by local jurisdictions.
The apnea test has no benefit for the patient, does not accomplish its purpose, and can only cause harm —including brain damage and death. No patient with a neurological injury should have to undergo this unethical test.
@manateenative2 Almost all of my taxes are made up of school taxes, so the calculator they showed was incorrect. That implied that the whole of my taxes would be reduced. Not cool
I never pat myself on the back… but I will for this. I am the man who caught them cheating in the California Mayor race.. Yup, that was me.
And I’m damn proud of it. 😁
🖕 you Gavin Newsome.
https://t.co/8JLbLmZYaQ
Texas Children’s Hospital need to be stopped. I can’t count the number of stories that I’ve heard over the years of what TCH has done to try and destroy lives all so that they can harvest more organs to make more money.
Laws in Texas and across the United States need to be changed to stop the perverse incentive to extract organs from children that want to live.
Now the parents are being threatened with CPS, acc to a close first-hand source. You cannot despise these people enough. Raise your voice - help save the life of a two-year-old girl. Stand up for the rights of every parent. Do not let them get away with murder. #releaseannelise
Is Texas Children’s Hospital going to kill this child as retribution because they are angry at AG Ken Paxton for successfully blocking them from doing trans surgeries on children?
This tiny little girl has shown some signs of recovery nearly drowning on Memorial Day and multiple doctors agree the hospital needs to give her time for the swelling on her brain stem to go down - but the Hospital is pushing to do a brain function test and wants the family to donate her organs. Debra Sukin is the President & CEO. She will not let this child be transferred to another hospital - she is blocking the parents from fighting for the life of their little girl and violating their religious belief in the sanctity of life. The parents got a temporary restraint order against the hospital to give jen time & a radical Progressive judge blocked it & gave the hospital the right to do the brain function test now before she has had time to heal.
There are TWO other Texas hospitals in the area standing by ready to take this child. How can anyone let Texas Children’s murder this little girl?
Please share, please raise your voices, please do anything you can. #releaseannelise
Of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence, Abraham Clark may have paid the highest personal price. Almost nobody knows his story. Buckle up.
He was a New Jersey farm kid considered too frail for farm work, so he taught himself math, then surveying, then law. He never got rich from it because he kept defending poor farmers who could not pay him. His neighbors called him "the Poor Man's Counselor."
In the early hours of July 4, 1776, while Congress debated independence in Philadelphia, Clark wrote a letter to a friend with one of the most chilling lines of the Revolution: "Perhaps our Congress will be exalted on a high gallows."
He signed anyway.
Then the British made it personal. Two of his sons were officers in the Continental Army, and both were captured. They were thrown onto the prison ship Jersey in New York Harbor, the deadliest place of the entire war. More Americans died on British prison ships than in every battle of the Revolution combined.
One son got it even worse. He was locked in the dungeon and given no food except what other starving prisoners could push through the keyhole of his cell.
The British reportedly offered Clark a deal: renounce the Declaration, switch sides, and your boys go free.
He refused.
Here is the part that breaks me. Clark sat in Congress through all of it and never once brought it up. No special pleading, no favors. Congress only found out through other channels and threatened retaliation against a British officer, which finally got his son out of the dungeon.
After the war, he kept choosing the little guy. He fought for debt relief for struggling farmers and refused to support the Constitution until he was assured a Bill of Rights would protect ordinary citizens.
In September 1794, at age 68, the self-taught surveyor who outlasted the British Empire died of sunstroke after a long day working on his own farm.
No statue on the National Mall. No musical. Just a small town in New Jersey called Clark, and most people who drive through it have no idea why.
Some men signed the Declaration with ink. Abraham Clark signed it with his sons.
I watched my wife push three human beings out of her body like it was an Olympic event.
One labor lasted over 18 HOURS.
EIGHTEEN.
She wasn’t sipping iced lattes, she was white-knuckling through pain that would make a Navy SEAL tap out and ask for his mommy.
And that’s just the delivery part.
Now she runs a full-contact combat zone at home: chasing a toddler who doesn't stop singing, teaching a 10-year-old multiplication and division, and feeding an 8-month-old who thinks sleep is optional.
She does all that on repeat, every single day, while somehow keeping the rest of us alive and mostly sane.
And what recognition does the calendar give her and many other rockstar moms around country?
One measly day.
Mother’s Day.
Fathers?
We show up, provide, protect, and kill the spider the size of a small dog.
One day.
Father’s Day.
Veterans?
The ones who went to war, saw things that broke their bodies and minds, and came home missing pieces?
They get one day too.
Memorial Day gets a long weekend for the rest of us to grill and forget when we should be remembering, and not stuffing hot dogs down our throats.
We honor our fallen heroes for a three-day weekend max.
Jesus Christ?
One day, even though half the country turns it into a shopping spree with inflatable Santas.
Thanksgiving?
The one day we’re supposed to shut up, sit down, and actually feel grateful for the roof, the food, and the family?
One. Single. Day.
But the LGBTQRSTUVWXYZ community?
They get an entire MONTH.
Thirty glorious days of corporate worship.
Every sports team, every Fortune 500 company, every coffee chain, every candy wrapper suddenly explodes in rainbow.
Your cereal wants to be an ally.
Your gum, your coffee and even your cheeseburger.
They’re not just waving it in your face, they’re selling it, branding it, and guilting you into buying it.
Why do they get 30 days when mothers who literally created life get 24 hours?
Because it’s not about rights anymore.
It’s a marketing racket dressed up as compassion. MA tiny percentage of the population gets turned into a cash cow while the rest of us are told to sit down, shut up, and celebrate or else we’re bigots.
Why?
Because guilt sells.
Fear of cancellation prints money.
Companies don’t actually care about the community, they care about looking like they care while your wife who birthed three kids gets a $6.99 card from Walgreens and a “happy Mother’s Day” text from corporate HR.
Mothers built civilization in the delivery room and the kitchen.
Fathers held the line so the rest of it didn’t collapse.
Veterans paid for our freedom in blood.
Jesus Christ LITERALLY DIED FOR YOU, so you could live forever.
And we give them all one day.
But a lifestyle marketing campaign gets a month because nothing says “authenticity” like Target turning your toddler’s underwear into a pride parade.
Enough.
Give mothers the whole damn month.
Or veterans.
Stop pretending a corporate profit orgy is bravery. Real bravery is pushing a baby out after 18 hours of labor then doing it two more times because you love your family more than your comfort.
That’s not a marketing ploy.
That’s a legacy.
On this night in 1781, one man on a horse saved the American Revolution from losing Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry, and half of Virginia's government in a single morning.
You were never taught his name.
June 3, 1781. The British had chased Virginia's entire government out of Richmond. Jefferson, in his final days as governor, and the legislature had fled to Charlottesville, thinking they were safe in the foothills.
They were wrong.
That evening, 26 year old militia captain Jack Jouett was at a tavern in Louisa County when roughly 250 of the most feared cavalry in the British army came pounding down the road. Their commander: Banastre Tarleton, nicknamed "The Butcher," the man whose dragoons had cut down surrendering Americans at Waxhaws.
There was only one place they could be going. Charlottesville. 40 miles away. And the capture of Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, would be the prize of the war.
Jouett couldn't outrun them on the main road. So he didn't use it.
He swung onto overgrown backwoods trails and the abandoned Old Mountain Road, riding 40 miles through the dark with only the full moon for light. Legend says low hanging branches whipped and scarred his face for life.
Tarleton stopped his men for a 3 hour rest. Jouett never stopped.
Before sunrise on June 4, he came up the mountain to Monticello and woke Jefferson. Then he rode down into Charlottesville and warned the legislature.
Jefferson got out with minutes to spare. British dragoons were coming up his mountain as he left. The legislature escaped over the Blue Ridge to Staunton. Tarleton caught only seven stragglers, one of them a frontiersman serving in the legislature named Daniel Boone.
Paul Revere rode about 12 miles in 1775 and got captured before reaching Concord. Longfellow wrote him a poem and made him immortal.
Jack Jouett rode 40 miles, lost nothing, saved everything, and got a thank you gift of two pistols and a sword from the Virginia Assembly.
No poem. No fame. Almost no memory.
BREAKING: NIH ebola expert ARRESTED by the FBI for smuggling deadly pathogens into America from the Congo
Vincent Munster was BUSTED at an airport with 113 vials containing monkeypox, chickenpox, and human DNA.
93 of the vials haven't even been tested yet......