2-Year-Old Passes Away After Hospital Fought to Stop Treatment
Please join us in praying for the Camp family after their 2-year-old daughter, Annelise, passed away this week.
The young girl nearly drowned on Memorial Day and landed in the hospital with a serious brain injury.
Immediately, doctors wanted to give up, stop treatment, and declare her “brain dead.”
Annelise wasn’t brain dead (she responded to light, she could digest food, and her body functioned and responded), but Texas law put all the power in the hands of the hospital.
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A court order in May protected her from harmful brain death tests, kept her ventilator on so she could breathe, and gave her family more time to find a different facility to care for her.
This victory gave the Camp family two extra months with Annelise and provided her a chance to recover from her injury. We were honored to stand with her family to ensure her life was not cut short by doctors rushing to declare her “brain dead.”
Still, this loss is heartbreaking.
Her grandfather wrote:
“The Psalms say, ‘the days of our lives are in His hands.’ What great promise, comfort and hope those words are to any Christian while facing the death of a family member… especially a young child as she was.”
“Thank you all for your prayers. Not only for her, but for her dear family: Johnston and Joy (her parents), and for her siblings, too.”
Please continue praying for this family as they grieve over their beautiful girl.
State laws that don’t protect patients end up worsening tragedies like Annelise’s initial accident. The Camps hope to fix the problems in our legal and medical systems so that future patients have a better chance at recovery and Life.
LifeNews Note: Kim Schwartz is the communications director for Texas Right to Life.
