Tonsillectomy leaves girl brain dead -- Jahi McMath's simple tonsillectomy had gone all sorts of wrong, leaving her completely brain-dead but the mom of the 13-year-old student continues to fight hoping that a miracle will soon occur.
Last December 9, Jahi McMath had entered Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland in hopes of treating her sleep apnea through a tonsillectomy. But complications from the simple and routine procedure had forced McMath into cardiac arrest soon after her surgery.
She was declared brain-dead approximately three days later.
Jahi has been the focus of the legal and medical battle between her attending physician and her parents. Jahi's supervising physician at the Oakland Center claimed that "absolutely no medical possibility" that Jahi will wake up, according to an official declaration from the court. However, Jahi's mother has taken the battle for her daughter's life to court and recently received a court order for her daughter to continue being supported by a ventilator for the next week while her doctors continued performing diagnostic tests.
Nailah Winkfield, Jahi's mother, shared her gratitude over being granted an opportunity to get a second opinion and said she has no plans whatsoever to give up the fight for her daughter's life.
"I'm her mother. I'm going to support her. It's my job to do it. Any mother would do it," Winkfield shared to CNN in an interview. "I just want her to have more time. There are so many stories of people waking up in her situation."
Jahi's family members claim that physicians are being careless and callous with the 13-year-old's treatment. They also shared that they are looking forward to celebrating Christmas in the Oakland Center with the young girl.
"This gives us the opportunity to spend Christmas with Jahi here at the hospital and possibly bring in the New Year with her as well," remarked Jahi's uncle Omari Sealey in an interview with KGO-TV in San Francisco.
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