{"id":3967,"date":"2012-01-11T12:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-11T12:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3967"},"modified":"2012-01-11T14:05:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-11T14:05:21","slug":"not-dead-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/?p=3967","title":{"rendered":"Still Alive."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dear\"<\/a><\/p>\n

You might have noticed this same picture up on a tribute post for T’s grandmother. Well. This past weekend T’s grandmother was in the hospital and pronounced dead … but she wasn’t, and isn’t. She’s very much alive, no thanks to the medical world.<\/p>\n

(What kind of a doctor pronounces someone dead, leaves them alone and naked in a room, only to discover that they’re alive hours later? Dead … except so not much<\/b>. How does one make such a mistake?)<\/p>\n

T’s grandmother is elderly, yes, had been ill, yes, but dead? No. She survived infection, hospital stays, and the unspeakable lack of care she received (and no, idiot doctor, we don’t want to put her onto morphine – she’s alive, please stop trying to kill her).<\/p>\n

One could wish<\/i> that T’s family were just a bit litigious, if only so that this doctor would feel some wrath in the form of a lawsuit. Or suffer some consequences of some<\/i> kind. Something, because nobody should be pronounced dead when they’re still alive. Families should not have to grieve, and then wonder if they’re right to hope that the grief is not necessary. Which brings to mind the question of how often this happens. (Can somebody make such an egregious mistake and keep on practicing medicine?) The woman is over 80 years old and certainly didn’t deserve to be abandoned without food or comfort for the hours that she was.<\/p>\n

But, the family is not vengeful, and everybody’s just happy to have Dear back. This is the important part…<\/p>\n

-D<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might have noticed this same picture up on a tribute post for T’s grandmother. Well. This past weekend T’s grandmother was in the hospital and pronounced dead … but she wasn’t, and isn’t. She’s very much alive, no thanks to the medical world. (What kind of a doctor pronounces someone dead, leaves them alone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hobbitsabroad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}