If I were to ask you, "what is your quality of life?", what would you say? Would it be fair if I answered that question for you? Or, how about someone you have NEVER met makes that decision after reading some "facts" about you? Who do you think has the right to say if your life is worth living or not? Apparently a team of doctors and surgeons and 1 rather annoying nurse practitioner.
As I said earlier in the week, the transplant team was going to meet and talk about Graham and see if he would be a candidate for a 2nd transplant. Graham has 3 concerns that were brought against him: 1) He has drug resistant bacteria in his lungs (which he had during the past transplant) - so next, move on....2) His circulatory system on his left side is completely blocked (again, this was there the 1st go round) - moving on...3) His aggressive and quick rejection has no "research" or "known success rates." So they decided, that if they do a 2nd transplant on Graham, the chances of him coming off the vent would be low and he'd die within a year...this would be a "bad quality of life."
Graham's current quality of life in 1 year...dead.
So YOU TELL ME - what quality of life you are looking for Mr. Drs? A life that you decided wasn't worth a shot at? A life that you believe that one would rather sit in a morphine state and wait to die than go out with a fight? BS! I know for a fact that you have given transplants to patients that have an even slimmer chance of living. I know that you have transplanted patients that have already lived full lives and raised their children and walked their daughters down the aisle, and they didn't make it because their bodies gave out. I would love for them to look at my daughter in her eyes and tell her that her Daddy's life if not worth another shot.
OH...But on the news tonight, congratulations Baylor, you successfully transplanted 15 patients in 1 day.
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