February 28, 2007

Dead baby comes back to life ... Almost enough to make you believe in God ... 2 week old baby has heart attack ... doctors do all they can but can't save him ... given back to parents so they can say goodbye ... whereupon he starts breathing again ... now perfectly healthy. In other baby news: an unexpected side-effect of viagra That's enough baby news: Ed
posted by dickdotcom 17 years ago
  • Both links lead to the same article. It's a good article, though. I can't begin to wrap my head around how it must feel to have that second chance with your child.
  • Must be a miracle baby coming back from the dead. Couldn't be slap-dash, over-hasty doctors... could it? Is this the only time this has ever happened, or have a number of babies ended up in the morgue ('done all we can here') while still actually viable if the doctors weren't eager to get on to the next case. I see the parents, pathetically, are grateful. Shouldn't they sue for being put through hell and having their baby's life risked? Or am I a litigious doctor-hater?
  • No one ever wants to talk about the real issues in a story like this. After half an hour the couple heard the boy cough and doctors started his heart. Now 14 months old, Woody has been given a clean bill of health. Woody was two weeks old before being brought back from the dead and 14 months old after being brought back. His parents clearly made a deal with the devil that would bring him back in exchange for 13 and a half months of his life.
  • He must have been breathing, with just a shallow heartbeat, mustn't he? Because otherwise his brain was without oxygen for over half an hour, and yet there's no brain damage.
  • Almost enough to make you believe in God Or in the incompetence thereof.
  • Is failure to provide the second link the unexpected side effect of Viagra?
  • I would try to find what diskdotcom intended, but I'm not Googling 'Viagra' and 'baby'.
  • Couldn't be slap-dash, over-hasty doctors... could it? Not necessarly. Strange things happen with the human body. I would imagine with an infant, it is possible that all signs of viability could be supressed and the baby still be alive. Lara, babies drowned in cold water can be without air or signs of life for a long time, but I'm thinking in this case they probably had him intubated. Bernockle, dammit use your ellipses!
  • Ellipses?
  • All I have to say is, what a cutie!
  • Ooops sorry - linkage problem - second story was actually linked from the first on the BBC news website so you ain't looked very hard ( a side-effect of Viagra?) but here it is
  • Enough to make one believe in God, you say? Hardly. Anyone with common-sense can see that it was medical science which was the miracle-maker in this case, not some virulently-angry, imaginary white-man, floating in the sky. What's pretty miraculous is how superstitious morons are always quick to credit some unseen God with positive unlikely outcomes, but don't think to blame this same all-powerful God for creating the precarious situation in the first place.
  • Ellipses? OK, never mind, adding part of the previous sentence doesn't invalidate your joke.* But it OUGHT TO! Because you were reaching. Really, really reaching. And I knew what the reporter meant. *and I didn't think of it first
  • Huh? What does a CLS 63 have to do with an Intrepid? Or am I missing something.
  • Trading a baby for an Intrepid is not a good trade...but for a CLS, maybe. Sorry, I was trying to be funny. I promise I won't do that again.
  • The "miracle" in juxtaposition to another news story about a poor black kid who, despite prayers, died from an untreated decayed tooth, makes me wonder how God could be so prejudiced against poor people, whose medical outcomes consistently are worse than those of more affluent folks. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17372104/
  • PB: are you describing me as a superstitious moron? I hope not. BTW I'm about as Atheist as they come ... on a scale between Richard Dawkins (0) and the Pope (10) I'm at 1
  • It's not at all an unexpected side-effect of Viagra - the drug is used for several kinds of cardiovascular problems, including impotence. The anti-impotence effect is a side-effect, really - sildenafil citrate was developed as an anti-hypertension drug, and then it was being tested for its effects on angina when male patients started asking for more... Turns out it's better at treating impotence than other problems, but it can still be useful in some cases, as we see here.
  • MonkeyFilter: it was being tested for its effects on angina
  • Is that your angina or are you just happy to see me?
  • so this would seem to prove the existence of zombies