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I've often wondered, but never had a platform to ask...the pro-life religious wing-nuts preach ad nauseum that God and Jesus are the only entities who can decide if someone lives or dies, that God has given life etc...so how do they rectify that when a body is being kept alive solely by man-made scientific machinery? Surely if you're going to leave a life in the hands of God, you'd switch all machines off rather than artificial life-giving measures? A ventilation machine is the opposite of allowing God to do his thing, surely? This child would've been buried back in 2013 if they'd left it to God.
I find religious people very confusing.
I guess as long as the machine is supporting pro-life ideology it's God's will that it be kept on. I don't get it either. It's not God keeping the plug from being pulled.
Jahi is a fundie's dream. It's proof to them that braindead doesn't mean dead. Too many people think that they are experts on a subject because they know how to search on Google. They think doctors don't know anything because they saw "proof" of something else on some whackjob's blog.
Now I saw a comment on that Dr. Bastard site (pretty sure that was it) that about something being seriously wrong with Jahi's eyes. I'll have to keep looking for it since it wasn't in the entry I thought it was. But it stated that they were always covered in many pics due to this and that there weren't going to be any new pics of Jahi. Like others have said, I think it's more along the lines of the eyes making it very obvious that Jahi is dead rather than the eyes being rotted away or anything like that. I think all of the more recent pics were actually older, right? When people stop taking pics of their miracle brain dead family member you know something is off.
Here's something interesting.
http://www.docbastard.net/2017/04/j...showComment=1498526773754#c266444091608865799
A former caregiver already commented on the menstrual story going around. She said no way and it was fake information. It stemmed from Jahi losing fecal waste through every orifice because of her insides slowly breaking down and liquefying. It was brownish in color and was seen on the bottom sheet where she was lying. If that family wants to believe something bad enough, they'll create something out of nothing. The caregiver also stated there were numerous no pest strips hanging and windows were always kept open due to the smell. this was in the early part of 2014. I can't even imagine what her body smells like now. Also? there is no way in HELL that family could or would get the death cert reversed. It won't happen./ the ONLY time a DC has been reversed is when a missing person who had been declared dead, suddenly shows up. Honestly, I'm sick of the McMath debacle and wish the scam fam would go away.
So the period is more than likely something else entirely. Just because Jahi had breasts before her ill fated doesn't mean she was menstruating. I had well developed breasts about a year before I started my period. She was also overweight so that would have added to the size of already developing breasts. Now we have no way of knowing. But Mama Nails acted as if it was Jahi's first period. But who knows. The mother is a scam artist. Although I don't doubt that part of it is due to dealing with guilt and the trauma of losing her child.
I looked up neuro breath because someone here mentioned it. According to this post it's due to enzymes in the brain breaking down and giving off a bad smell.
http://allnurses.com/neuro-intensive-care/neuro-breath-972276.html
I was looking for anything on Neuro breath when I came across this thread from a few years ago. Most of what I read seemed to deal with just adequate oral care, but I believe there's something else going on with patients who have brain damage. This is what one of the posts said:
I asked a Neuro Sergeon about this bad breath. This terrible breath seems to even smell similar. I said that it was terrrible even after repeated episodes of oral care. We've tried everything. The best for decreasing the smell and also aids in the repair of oral trauma is a 11 ratio mixture of NS, Peroxide and Cepecol. Anyway this doctor explained the breath problem. I don't know if he was giving me a load of BS but, his story sounds plausable. He said that it was an enzyme given off by trauma or injury to the brain. This enzyme's effect was like the "fruity" breath given off by diabetics. Only this enzyme produces rancid breath. I however, haven't found data to back up his claims.
In my experience the odor coming off of neuro patients (those with brain damage extensive enough that they are comatose for several days, typically intubated, probably have SAH, IPH, shearing injuries, GCS typically 4-8, posturing, probably enduring a swelling phase so they're on hypertonic saline or mannitol, maybe have an EVD) smells the same across the board. It's the same smell regardless of any demographic and it tends to come on around day two or three and gets worse after a day or two. I hear that hunting dogs are trained to find their game/target based on a smell/odor given off by the injured target. Maybe the brain gives off some enzyme when it's injured. The other thing I've noticed, but haven't followed up on it, is that those with the smell tend to have poor prognosis. I would love to be able to follow up on my patients that get the smell, but don't end up dying (not a very large percentage) and see how their lifestyle progresses after the ICU. I know it's a very subjective assessment finding, but I feel like it could almost be used diagnostically. We could talk for hours about proper oral hygiene, but over the last seven years I haven't found that oral care, regardless of how vigorous and complete it is and regardless of the cocktail of cleansing agents and good smelling fluids we use, makes any difference at all. At best it only temporarily masks the smell. Thoughts?
Oral care does nothing to halt neuro breath because it's not an oral health problem. If there's flypaper up in Jahi's room then it's possible that this enzyme tells insects that there is a corpse in the area. I hope that Jahi is at least being cleaned properly to prevent an infestation. Even living patients can end up with maggots because their bedsores aren't properly cared for.
It looks like there's really no way to get rid of neuro breath. Nothing gets rid of the smell. It just masks it.
Now I've noticed something on the legs crossed pic.

What are those pink things in each of her hands? At first I only saw one and thought it was a stuffed toy. But there are two and they look like rolled up hand towels. It's abnormal for someone to sit up like that grasping a rolled towel in each hand. So it looks like the towels were used as a sort of mold to shape her hands so they'll look less limp. As you can see this pic doesn't show Jahi's head, which I doubt she's holding up at all. Is that cord from headphones or is it one of the machines? She has headphones on in one of the other pics.
Here's another pic where her hand is on something rolled up. Like a plaster cast or that stuff you can get at a pharmacy that's used for wrapping a limb that's sore. The sticky disposable stuff. Not the Ace bandages. Maybe that's what those hand towels are in the other one?

I think that without some kind of mold to shape them, Jahi's hands are fixed at a certain pose. Objects are being used by Mama Nails to pose Jahi's hands. Many other hand shots show her hands propped up on manicure accessories or towels. When they aren't you get this:

The hand looks different when a cylinder isn't beneath it. Try to make your hand bend like that. It is not very comfortable or easy. No child who is alive would have hands bent like that. Even the Hartley girl's contractures look more natural because it's something that's seen in living people with neurological problems. Jahi's feet are bent in a similar way.

I'm not an expert but that doesn't look normal to me. The whole way the foot is bent just looks like wrong. Not like a normal person would do if they had their foot hanging off of a bed rail. There's no way she'd be able to get up and walk like that. But Mama Nails seems to post like she's going to get up any minute.
I'm wondering if her nails are always painted or tipped with fakes because they are blue underneath from lack of oxygen.