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Originally Posted by GraMar89
Rumors are an occupational hazard to the well-known. I know of an elderly lady who nervously believed that we were only allowed to eat Jam Sandwiches. (don't know what you call them but they are a sort of fruit preserves spread on bread)
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The JWs I was talking to are the Watchtower reps who visit door to door. One would expect them to be better knowledged about it than just rumors, and they seemed pretty firm that transfusion makes you ineligible to be a JW. Perhaps it's just the views of the JWs in Saskatchwan/Canada (btw, we also call it jam, or jelly, or preserve...
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If this doesn't give you enough information then I can't say more as these forums are for discussing factual medical information. People aren't here to be preached to but to discuss salient medical matters on factual grounds revolving around non-blood medical management.
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True. And I realise now I should not have brought it up here.
Back to our discussion at hand then. Here are the problems I see so far with this case:
a) they did not receive treatment of iron or EPO or blood thickeners following their birth;
b) they did not start a regime of blood-collection to allow self-transfusion once problems developed;
c) hyperbaric treatment seems impractical since if their condition worsens it's difficult and time-consuming to get them out of the hyperbaric chamber and into the OR, as well they can't be in such treatment while in the OR itself (I'm unaware of OR-sized HB chambers in BC...); and
d) their condition was severe anemia (half the hemoglobin count as normal), and appeared to be quickly worsening.
I'm working under the assumption that the infants were fine when released from hospital, and problems were only noticed when the first one died. (Otherwise they would likely have been kept in neo-natal rather than sent home...) And that their condition was worsening quickly enough to prompt the judge to make the error in law that he did (not allowing a hearing) before issuing the emergency seizure order (perhaps the 2nd death convinced him that something was seriously wrong considering their condition on leaving the hospital, unsure at this time)
Are there any treatments that would have dealt with the issues listed above?