I doubt that they'd survive without medical intervention; could Gwen technically just file a do not resuscitate or whatever and stop taking them for their various treatments that keeps their tiny nervous systems revving and let them pass away without getting arrested?
I doubt it at this point. Likely when first born, she could have said she wanted them to have just comfort care and no interventions and the hospital would have gone along.
But for whatever reason, that didn't happen and now she has to live with the consequences. They get PT too.
Sure, if one of those kids have a heart attack she can say no more treatment and invoke a DNR. But she's put feeding tubes and other interventions in place and she can't just stop feeding them 15 years after the fact, that would be murder.
Now....murder of what? Not much it appears to me, but they are breathing, pooping (obviously) one eats on her own and while nobody could say they are thriving, they have some sort of lives. I have not seen how much brain each girl actually has so it's hard to say what's in there but sure doesn't seem like anything and from what I've seen, less than any animal.
But, can't take it away because you are tired.
I am not going to go so far to say this mother doesn't love these kids. I think she does. I don't think she sees them the way we do, and the way the medical profession does. She interprets reflexes as personality, etc. I imagine it's the only way to make a life out of this terrible situation, and the asspats also keep her going.
I think though, that she could have told her story without disrespecting the humanity of these girls and without disrespecting her son's privacy. (That letter never, ever should have been posted) She could even have placed herself as the hero and still honored these lives. But I think she missed the mark with the poop stories, funny costumes, etc.
I've not read the whole blog. I have watched most of the videos and read some of the posts and I think what she puts forth as humor is not really. Maybe I'll change my mind when I read more. There are people who need to know what it's like because they just had a kid with this condition, and what impression does she give? Not a good one, at least on first glance.
Same to dad too, but he's not the one blogging and initiating it.
