RIP Baby Emilio
Little Emilio Gonzales has passed away. He was 19 months old. Thankfully, he did not die at the hands of doctors slavishly following Texas’s Futile Care law. His family, through their lawyer, was able to stop that. Emilio succumbed naturally to the mysterious condition that doctors had diagnosed as Leigh’s Disease. Though I am sure that his mother, Catarina, is devastated at the death of her precious little one, I am sure that she is comforted by the fact that Emilio passed away due to the course of his condition, rather than being murdered by doctors who had decided that caring for him was futile. One positive outcome from Emilio’s plight is that there will be a change in Texas’s Futile care laws that will give families more time to find another hospital and doctor when Their doctor gives up on them.
Goodbye precious Baby Emilio. May you rest in peace.