I blogged two weeks ago that Isaiah May was having to fight for his life, both in the hospital and at the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench. And he’s only 3 months old.
Last Wednesday, Justice Michelle Crighton decided to set back the decision of whether to remove the child from the ventilator until February 19th. The family had asked for a not-unreasonable delay of 90 days. That was apparently 60 days too many, to deal with this life and death issue.
As previously mentioned, Isaiah’s parents received a letter from the hospital informing them that the hospital had unilaterally decided to remove Isaiah from ventilation support on the basis that he would never recover from the severe lack of oxygen he experienced at birth.
However, Isaiah has been proving the doctors wrong by gaining weight and moving.
The 90 days the parents requested would have provided time to monitor Isaiah’s growth and report it back to the court in order to justify (I hate using the word, but this is what it has come to, unfortunately) Isaiah’s life.
While the lawyers for Stollery’s Children Hospital state that they sympathize with the family, they hope the matter will be resolved within 30 days.