Sugg, Diana K.,
If I Die: The Most Difficult Journey. Diana K. Sugg. - Baltimore Sun, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 64, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: If I Die: The Most Difficult Journey, Dec. 19, 2004; pp. n.p..
"R.J. Voigt was dying. His doctors knew it. His mother knew it. Even the 12-year-old knew it somewhere deep inside himself. But medicine allows parents and children to hold on to hope for a cure." (BALTIMORE SUN) This article, the first in a series of four, chronicles the struggles of R.J. Voigt and other critically ill children, noting that "every breakthrough, every child saved, creates a burden of expectation that the next child can also be saved. Barreling forward to the next therapy is the norm. Children endure painful procedures that may be futile. Aggressive care buys time, and some cures. But it places the children on a tightrope that gets higher and higher. Many, like R.J., will come to hate the very things that keep them alive."
1522-3213;
Cancer--Research
Cancer--Treatment
Cancer in children
Terminal care
Terminally ill children
AC1.S5
050
If I Die: The Most Difficult Journey. Diana K. Sugg. - Baltimore Sun, 2004. - SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Article 64, Family, 1522-3213; .
Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2006. Originally Published: If I Die: The Most Difficult Journey, Dec. 19, 2004; pp. n.p..
"R.J. Voigt was dying. His doctors knew it. His mother knew it. Even the 12-year-old knew it somewhere deep inside himself. But medicine allows parents and children to hold on to hope for a cure." (BALTIMORE SUN) This article, the first in a series of four, chronicles the struggles of R.J. Voigt and other critically ill children, noting that "every breakthrough, every child saved, creates a burden of expectation that the next child can also be saved. Barreling forward to the next therapy is the norm. Children endure painful procedures that may be futile. Aggressive care buys time, and some cures. But it places the children on a tightrope that gets higher and higher. Many, like R.J., will come to hate the very things that keep them alive."
1522-3213;
Cancer--Research
Cancer--Treatment
Cancer in children
Terminal care
Terminally ill children
AC1.S5
050