If I Die: The Most Difficult Journey. Diana K. Sugg.
by Sugg, Diana K; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 64Family. Publisher: Baltimore Sun, 2004ISSN: 1522-3213;.Subject(s): Cancer -- Research | Cancer -- Treatment | Cancer in children | Terminal care | Terminally ill childrenDDC classification: 050 Summary: "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."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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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."
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