Prolonging suffering in family members seems to occur most often in uneducated families in my experience. We try and explain the statistics, the likely outcome, but for some reason family members always think paw paw “is a fighter” and “miracles happen” so their neurologically devastated family member will DEFINITELY pull through this unscathed.
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Prolonging suffering in family members seems to occur most often in uneducated families in my experience. We try and explain the statistics, the likely outcome, but for some reason family members always think paw paw “is a fighter” and “miracles happen” so their neurologically devastated family member will DEFINITELY pull through this unscathed.