Monday 29 April 2013

BLOOD TRANSFUSION...WHAT IF YOUR LIFE DEPENDED ON IT?

So i met a patient one time who had a baby and lost a lot of blood. Prior to her surgery she signed that she didn't want any form of blood transfusion because of her religion. she was a witness and it was against her religion. And then the doctors managed and did everything the could and kept her as healthy as possible to keep her PCV normal and all that but then she had some complications and then she needed  to be transfused.
   Her husband refused,her pastor refused,they said it was seriously against their religion and they were going to pray and God was going to revive her. She was dying and the doctors were running out of options because they had used all forms of blood ex panders and all that.

 When she became conscious she was visited by the doctors to make a decision. she refused. she said if God wants to take her life this way then so be it. The doctors and nurses told her to think about her baby and her other kids,she still refused.
  After a few days she was looking so pale and couldn't even efficiently breastfeed her child her husband decided to go against religious beliefs but she refused. After a few days she died. It became a controversial discussion amongst patients,relatives and health workers. So many cultural and religious beliefs makes us take some decisions that might just endanger our lives... Be it that you found yourself in this woman's position today what would you have done?

4 comments:

  1. I admire her a lot, her bravery.... She has very strong beliefs and stood by them even when she knew she was dying...she trusted God to heal her. ♍Ɣ dad was told he needed a blood transfusion late last year due to leaking valves in his heart... He also refused but it wasn't due to religious beliefs...at the end of d day, he was healed....I also read that there could b a lot of risk involved with blood transfusions...

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  2. Yh! Its always cool to follow our religious beliefs,but I'd say its not fair too to lose one's life cos of one religious beliefs,this is the 21st century merhn!!! Such stuff shouldn't happen again.that's my own opinion anyway before I get flogged outta this blog.

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  3. I wud damn all beliefs if my life depended on it!afterall som of dis beliefs were handed down2us without strong reasons&proofs of where&when it was adhered2 to back it up.

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  4. The Bbible says "listen to the advice of your doctors, for God gave them the knowledge." Blood of a human, screened of all infections, and yet one refuses...ignorance.

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