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Virginia Giuffre writes on social media she has ‘gone into kidney renal failure … they’ve given me four days to live’
Virginia Giuffre writes on social media she has ‘gone into kidney renal failure … they’ve given me four days to live’
Since when is renal failure a death sentence? We can keep people alive for decades without even having kidneys with regular hemo-dialysis machines. Kidney transplants are super common too.
I assume there are other significant injuries that aren’t fixable?
I’m sure it was a misunderstanding in education regarding how soon you’d die without dialysis. That or she’s refusing. In truth she wouldn’t likely die in that short of timeframe even without dialysis. But I figure that’s the hard deadline the doctors gave her to decide before she starts experiencing significant problems that may preclude her from changing her mind. I’m not a fan of the fact that even the BBC ran this story uncritically.
I presume it’s 4 days to live without medical intervention. The article quotes her father as commenting:
It could definitely be true that doctors said she’s got 4 days to live … without dialysis. That could have been made clearer in the article. I suspect someone is being a little overly dramatic - to be expected of headline editors and to be forgiven of a recently car-crashed victim of sex trafficking.
It’s an odd story at first read, including this bit:
Maybe she holds beliefs that say no to doctors.
It’s a really really odd story. The article says that the accident was a minor crash, and that her vehicle sustained A$2000 worth of damage.
There’s no way getting hit buy a bus going 110Kph doesn’t total your vehicle. And if it was just a glancing blow, how do you go into renal failure from what’s basically a fender bender? Severe whiplash maybe?
Perhaps it’s just my armchair traffic injury analysis that’s way off base, but it just seems to me like there’s more to this story.