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Epstein and Prince Andrew accuser says she has days to live after bus crash.
(www.theguardian.com)
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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. Generally if you're 4 days away from dying of kidney failure you have encephalopathy from uremia so bad that you're not going to be making coherent social media posts. 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:
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.
Maybe she holds beliefs that say no to doctors.