Questions are being raised about the case of a 36-year-old Ontario woman who died of liver failure after she was rejected for a life-saving liver transplant after a medical review highlighted her prior alcohol use.
  • theluckyone@lemmy.world
    16·
    2 个月前

    Second paragraph in: 'However, documents show the Alcohol Liver Disease (ALD) team at UHN rejected her in part because of “minimal abstinence outside of hospital.” ’

    The article quotes Dr. Jayakumar making a general statement regarding alcohol diseased livers, but the University Health Network declined to comment on Amanda’s specific case outside offering their (patronizing) condolences.

    Feel free to quote the article and back up your statement.

    • exanime@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 个月前

      “minimal abstinence outside of hospital.”

      This means she kept on drinking while not hospitalized

      The rest is standard boilerplate, they can’t speak about her detailed case in public

      • theluckyone@lemmy.world
        12·
        2 个月前

        I’m sorry, maybe I’m just daft this week, but I missed the concept “the doctors believed her liver is so far gone, a partial would lot [sic] work” in that.

        I quote: “Huska, he said, stopped drinking as soon as she was diagnosed with Alcohol Liver Disease on March 3 and had also registered for an alcohol cessation program to begin once she was discharged.” So where does the article state she kept drinking while waiting for the transplant?

        • exanime@lemmy.world
          3·
          2 个月前

          I’m sorry, maybe I’m just daft this week, but I missed the concept “the doctors believed her liver is so far gone, a partial would lot [sic] work” in that.

          This was posted like 5 times and I assumed it was the same article… I’ll find the link to the original one where they detailed this. In any case, she was not eligible because she was likely to go back to drinking and ruin the new liver…

          So where does the article state she kept drinking while waiting for the transplant?

          I never said that… what the article says is that she was an alcoholic since late teens and was never able to stop. She literally only stopped drinking after she found out she was going to die, and that was only like 3 months. She tried to quit before but never succeeded… that tells you she was a super high risk of relapsing

          • theluckyone@lemmy.world
            11·
            2 个月前

            “This means she kept drinking while out of the hospital”, which directly contradicts the statement by the boyfriend saying she stopped drinking.

            Everything else is like, your opinion, man.

            • exanime@lemmy.world
              21·
              2 个月前

              Stopping to drink for a few weeks after you realize you are about to die from drinking… doesn’t really make a difference here. Unfortunately, she was an alcoholic for most of her life and, before diagnosis, did not show any capacity to quit

              So, even if she did stopped drinking 100% after May… it was just too late

                • exanime@lemmy.world
                  2·
                  2 个月前

                  It’s literally what the article said… she stopped drinking after diagnosis

                  Here, second hand from her partner (my emphasis)

                  Her partner Nathan Allan says he and her physicians petitioned four times for permission to get her a transplant, the only treatment that would possibly save her life. ->Huska, he said, stopped drinking as soon as she was diagnosed with Alcohol Liver Disease on March 3<- and had also registered for an alcohol cessation program to begin once she was discharged.

                  • theluckyone@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    2 个月前

                    I’m not debating that she stopped drinking after diagnosis. I’m debating the rest of your opinion: "Stopping to drink for a few weeks after you realize you are about to die from drinking… doesn’t really make a difference here. Unfortunately, she was an alcoholic for most of her life and, before diagnosis, did not show any capacity to quit

                    So, even if she did stopped drinking 100% after May… it was just too late"

                    So again, please back your statement up with a direct quote from the article. I’ll wait, but excuse me if I don’t hold my breath.