The parents of a mentally disabled girl have had a Seattle hospital give her treatments to keep her child-size so that she’ll be easier to care for.
Nine-year-old named Ashley recently completed 2 1/2 years of treatments.
The treatments included a hysterectomy, the removal of her breast buds, and a course of estrogen.
KING-TV reports the treatment was approved by the ethics board at Children’s Hospital. Dr. Benjamin Wilfond said the hospital agreed to the treatment to benefit the child.
She has a severe brain impairment called static encephalopathy. She can’t walk or talk. She’s fed through a tube and has the developmental ability of a baby.
Ashley’s parents bring her to Children’s Hospital every three months so that doctors can monitor her height, weight and estrogen levels.
She’s 4-foot-4, weighs 70 pounds and doctors believe she is almost done growing. Without treatments doctors believe she would have grown to 5-foot-5, 125 pounds.
That would have made her too heavy for her caregivers — her parents and grandmother — to lift, move and bathe her.
Is that actually legal? To be honest I would have rather put her to rest than to strip the little that’s left of her.
April 2nd, 2007 at 5:35 am
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i am sohail ahmad khan from pakistan i need help for my mentely dis able child if you give me help for tretments i am very thanks full to you
sohail ahmad khan
September 22nd, 2007 at 8:42 am
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