Jahi McMath (13) died for real five years after she was declared brain dead following surgery complications

[*crickets*]

http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-...irl-ventilator

"I let my daughter know, 'You're getting prayers from all over the world, not just in the community, but literally all over the world,'" her mother, Nailah Winkfield, said after visiting with her daughter early Monday evening. "We won't stop -- I believe my daughter is alive.

"I don't care what they say; she's moving. If you go in a room with your child and talk to your child and they respond to you, you're going to believe your child is alive. I'm not trying to hold onto a corpse -- that is a live girl in there."

With the newly-extended order, the family plans to keep Jahi on the ventilator long enough to have her flown to a facility in New York, "an organization that believes in life," according to family attorney Christopher Dolan. The girl's uncle, Omari Sealey, said the family has contracted with an air ambulance to fly her across the country under the watch of a California doctor.

As of Monday, however, officials at Children's Hospital said they had not heard from the facility's medical staff, a requirement before any transfer could take place. Hospital spokesman Sam Singer described paperwork submitted by the family spelling out the girl's transfer as "faulty."

Singer added that doctors would comply with the court orders but added that attorneys for the facility would file motions opposing the family's request "so this tragedy may have a conclusion."

While most medical professionals agree brain death is a specific diagnosis from which no one returns, Jahi's family has been driven by religious faith, and support has poured in from around the country in the hope that she may one day wake up. More than 800 individual donors have given more than $27,800 to an online site to raise money for Jahi's transfer to another facility.

Attorney Dolan said the case was about the family's right to determine what to do with their daughter, no matter what the hospital or doctors want.

"What's important for people to know is that this case is about Jahi, but more importantly, it's about choices," he said. "Who gets to make these choices regarding children and health care and this most intimate and fundamental choice -- will you live or die? This is about choices. No matter how they try to characterize it, it's about empowerment, choices and the rights of people."

Ohhh-kayyyy...so next step would be that while running a code on a patient, the doctors must check with the family before calling it, to make sure they are comfortable with the decision? Where does it end?

What a TERRIBLE precedent this is.

The family's unwavering hope was rejuvenated again Monday, as her grandmother said Jahi has been moving her legs and responding to her mother's voice.

"Jahi is moving when her mother speaks," Sealey said Monday afternoon. "We have video; our attorneys have just produced it to the hospital's attorney. We have a pediatrician who has seen Jahi who has sworn that she is not dead." Sealey told reporters that the family may release the video to the public on Tuesday.

On Monday afternoon, Jahi's grandmother, Sandra Chatman, told reporters that her granddaughter was responding to sounds and touch. "I know we're going to have victory today," said Chatman. "She's moving her body. Her vital signs are good. ... I believe that Jahi can recover."

This is the grandmother who is A NURSE speaking here.