You Have 10 Days

You Have 10 Days

You Have 10 Days

Texas Baby's Mother Fights for Son's Life After Doctors Give Up Hope

Austin, TX (LifeNews.com) -- A 23 year old single mother in Texas is holding on to hope that she can find another medical facility who will take her disabled son for treatment after doctors at an Austin hospital gave up hope. The case is the latest in Texas to involve a futile care law that gives families just 10 days to find a facility that will care for their loved ones. Catarina Gonzales' son Emilio is just 16 months old but he is plagued by Leigh's disease, an incurable disorder that causes the breakdown of the central nervous system. The disease will inevitably take his life, but the youngster is still alive and his mother believes he's entitled to appropriate medical care and attention until then. However, doctors at the Brackenridge Children's Hospital are planning to take Emilio off of life support and now Gonzales has just 10 days under state law to find a facility to care for her baby boy before the hospital makes the final decision. "Some days he will hear you, some days he won't," she told KENS-TV about her son's condition. "He's not completely brain dead." To help her case, Gonzales has turned to attorney Jerri Ward, who has been instrumental in helping families of patients such as Andrea Clark who have battled the futile care law. "The fact of this matter is, even if this progressive disease will cause him eventually to die ... He's not dead yet. Dying is not being dead," Ward said.
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