Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Teen wins fight to refuse transplant

Hannah Jones, 13, is not afraid of dying – she is afraid of spending her remaining days in a hospital bed.

Hanna Jones was diagnosed with leukemia at age 4. Doctors later found a heart defect. In eight years, she has had chemotherapy and nearly a dozen operations. She denied a heart transplant that could save her life because she doesn't want to risk spending the rest of her life in the hospital.

If I where her I would accept the heart transplant in hope of living longer. But at the same time I can see where she is coming from in a sense that it would suck if you had to be in the hospital all the time you wouldn't have any freedom.

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