After about three consecutive weeks of praying, shouting, grieving, wrangling and weeping over a 13-year-old declared brain dead after a tonsillectomy, things were relatively quiet on New Year's Day regarding the life and death of Jahi McMath.
The family attorney, Chris Dolan, tweeted out that there was not much to report, other than he was "burning up the phones" trying to find a doctor to perform a "tracheostomy in high-profile case is very difficult."
He added in an interview: "If this damn hospital would just 'trache' her we would be on the way to a facility that will provide world-class innovative treatments of the type being given to Prime Minister (Ariel) Sharon in Israel." Sharon has been in a permanent vegetative state since 2006 after a stroke, but his brain shows "robust activity" in response to pictures of his family.
Dolan's reference to "burning up the phones" means that he is trying to find a longterm care facility who will take Jahi.
The owner of a traumatic brain injury center called "New Beginnings" said she would take Jahi, even though the eighth grader was declared dead following a Dec. 9 surgery at Children's Hospital in Oakland to cure her sleep apnea. Dolan had also identified an unnamed center in Arizona he was trying to work with to accept Jahi.
#Wow, what can I say? Jahi is in my prayers......
#Wow, what can I say? Jahi is in my prayers......
Lord, we ask that you lay your healing hands on this little girl in Jesus Name. Amen
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