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Court Sides With Ohio Hospital on Amish Girl Care

An appeals court has sided with a hospital that wants to force a 10-year-old Amish girl to resume chemotherapy after her parents decided to stop the treatments.
The court ruled that a county judge must reconsider his decision that blocked Akron Children’s Hospital‘s attempt to give an attorney who’s also a registered nurse limited guardianship over Sarah Hershberger and the power to make medical decisions for her.
The hospital believes Sarah’s leukemia is very treatable but says she will die without chemotherapy.
The judge in Medina County in northeast Ohio had ruled in July that Sarah’s parents had the right to make medical decisions for her.
The appeals court ruling issued Tuesday said the judge failed to consider whether appointing a guardian would be in the girl’s best interest. It also disagreed with the judge’s decision that said he could only transfer guardianship if the parents were found unfit.
The family’s attorney, John Oberholtzer, said Wednesday that the ruling essentially ordered the judge to disregard the rights of the parents.
Andy Hershberger, the girl’s father, said the family agreed to begin two years of treatments for Sarah last spring but stopped a second round of chemotherapy in June because it was making her extremely sick.
“It put her down for two days. She was not like her normal self,” he said. “We just thought we cannot do this to her.”
Sarah begged her parents to stop the chemotherapy and they agreed after a great deal of prayer, Hershberger said. The family, members of an insular Amish community, shuns many facets of modern life and is deeply religious. They live on a farm and operate a produce stand near the village of Spencer in Medina County, about 35 miles southwest of Cleveland.
“Our belief is, to a certain extent, we can use modern medicine, but at some times we have to stop it and do something else,” Hershberger said in a telephone interview.
They opted to consult with a wellness center and treat Sarah with natural medicines, such as herbs and vitamins, and see another doctor who is monitoring their daughter, Hershberger said.
“We see her every day. We watch her really close,” her father said. “She runs, plays. She crawls up ladders. She’s got a lot of energy, more than she had when she was doing chemo.”
Hershberger said they have not ruled out returning to Akron Children’s Hospital if Sarah’s health worsens. “We told them if it gets to the point that we cannot do anything for her, we would come back,” he said.
After the appeals court decision, the hospital said in a statement Wednesday that its goal is to ensure that the girl receives the most appropriate care based on scientific evidence and added that the allegation has never been about “parental unfitness.”
It said neither the hospital nor anyone else is requesting legal or physical custody of the child; instead, the hospital said, this case “involves a disagreement between providers and parents over what course of treatment is best for their child.”
Robert McGregor, the hospital’s chief medical officer, said last week that it is morally and legally obligated to make sure the girl receives proper care.
He said the girl’s illness — lymphoblastic lymphoma — is an aggressive form of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, but there is a five-year survival rate of 85 percent if she continues treatment.
Some of the girl’s tumors had gone away after the first round of chemotherapy, but she isn’t yet in remission, the hospital said.
“We really have to advocate for what we believe is in the best interest of the child,” McGregor said last week.
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Hannah Hurnard’s “Hind’s Feet on High Places” audiobook video series
playlist on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
A set of videos in Tribute to the writing of Hannah Hurnard, “Hind’s Feet on High Places” to Art of Breezy Kiefair i just put music and art to a book that has been a favorite since childhood… my mother used to read me that book…. call it a tribute to her and an introduction of the book to an audience that may otherwise remain unaware of it. I recommend it for anyone with anxiety or PTSD
Preface to the allegory
The Preface chapter to Art of Breezy Kiefair and the Music of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
https://plus.google.com/photos/108039434993096331483/photo/5856776704305425106
info on the book: “Hinds’ Feet on High Places” From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hinds’ Feet on High Places
Hinds’ Feet on High Places | |
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Author(s) | Hannah Hurnard |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | Christian |
Publisher | Christian Literature Crusade |
Publication date | 1955 |
Media type | Print (Hardback &Paperback) |
Pages | 158 pp. |
ISBN | ISBN 0 86065 192 4 |
Hinds’ Feet on High Places is an allegorical novel by English author Hannah Hurnard. Hinds’ Feet was written in 1955 and has become a very successful work of Christian fiction, seeing new editions published as recently as July, 2005.
Plot introduction[edit]
It is the story of a young woman named Much Afraid, and her journey away from her Fearing family and into the High Places of the Shepherd, guided by her two companions Sorrow and Suffering. It is an allegory of a Christian devotional life from salvation through maturity. It aims to show how a Christian is transformed from unbeliever to immature believer to mature believer, who walks daily with God as easily on the High Places of Joy in the spirit as in the daily life of mundane and often humiliating tasks that may cause Christians to lose perspective.
The book takes its title from Habakkuk 3:19, “The Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.”
The story begins in the Valley of Humiliation with Much Afraid, being beset by the unwanted advances of her cousin, Craven Fear, who wishes to marry her. The Family of Fearings seems to have some strong similarities to the Addams Family. Much Afraid is ugly from all outward appearances, walking on club feet, sporting gnarled, deformed hands, and speaking from a crooked mouth that seems to have been made so by a stroke or the like.
The Good Shepherd is tender and gentle with Much Afraid, especially in the beginning. However, His many sudden departures may strike the reader as bizarre, given the human penchant to expect kindly souls to never do everything that may be interpreted as rude or as hurtful in any way. Yet, though the Shepherd leaves in a moment, He returns the same way at the first furtive cry of the forlorn little protagonist. “Come, Shepherd, for I am much afraid!”
When Much Afraid intimates that she would love to be able to dance upon the high places as do the surefooted deer, the Shepherd commends her for this desire. In order to accomplish this, he offers to “plant the seed of love” into her heart. At first sight of the long, black hawthorne-looking seed, she shrieks in fear. Soon, she relents, and after the initial intense pain, she senses that something is indeed different in her, though she still looks the same, for now.
Just when the reader thinks that Much Afraid is about to reach the High Places, the path turns downward towards a seemingly endless desert. There is incident with an extremely high cliff that must be ascended by a steep, slippery and very narrow zig-zagging track, with the help of her two companions, Sorrow and Suffering. Then days are spent in a forest that is shrouded in a thick cloud of fog. During this time Much Afraid is sequestered with her two friends in a log cabin. The climax is an unexpected twist that comes as Much Afraid despairs of ever reaching the High Places.
Allusions/references to other works[edit|edit source]
The book bears some stylistic similarities to John Bunyan‘s The Pilgrim’s Progress. The name of the protagonist, Much-Afraid, also appears first in Bunyan’s work.
References[edit]
Bosman, Ellen. “Hind’s Feet on High Places” in Masterplots II: Christian Literature. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2007: 779-782. Bezzina, Christopher Felix. ‘Journey to the High Places. Hannah Hurnard’s Spirituality and the Song of Songs.’http://www.amazon.com/Journey-High-Places-Hurnards-Spirituality/dp/1620320983
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The Chapters:
Part 1: Weeping May endure for a night
Chapter 1 Invitation to the High Places
Chapter 2: Fearing Invasion
Chapter 3: Flight in the Night
Chapter 4: Start for the high Places
Chapter 5: Encounter with Pride
Chapter 6: Detour through the desert
Chapter 7: On the Shores of Loneliness
Chapter 8: On the Old Sea Wall
Chapter 9: Great Precipice Injury
Chapter 10: Ascent of the Great Precipice Injury
Chapter 11: In the Forests of Danger and Tribulation
Chapter 12: In The Mist
Chapter 13: In The Valley Of Loss
Chapter 14: The Place Of Anointing
More Videos to Come soon……
Chapter 15: The Floods
Chapter 16:
Part 2: Joy Cometh in the Morning
Chapter 17:
Chapter 18:
Chapter 19:
Chapter 20:
More Links:
Quotes on Goodreads
http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/1128612-hinds-feet-on-high-places
buy the audio book:
http://christianaudio.com/hinds-feet-on-high-places-blackstone-hannah-hurnard
read the book in pdf form:
http://files.tyndale.com/thpdata/firstchapters/978-0-8423-1394-0.pdf
Playlist on Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
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The Chapters on youtube
youtube playlist url: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
Video 1: Preface, Chapters 1-2
The introduction and first chapters, the Music of Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Chapter 1 Invitation to the High Places
video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNSPAmAb8Uc&feature=share&list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
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Video 2: Chapters 3-5
Chapter 3: Flight in the Night
Chapter 4: Start for the high Places
Chapter 5: Encounter with Pride
video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXGPUWk0NTA&feature=share&list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
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Video 3: Chapters 6-9
Chapter 6: Detour through the desert
Chapter 7: On the Shores of Loneliness
Chapter 8: On the Old Sea Wall
Chapter 9: Great Precipice Injury
video url: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cc3Va4Z0Ow&feature=share&list=PLwc43UiVjiudD0DhoUELBfeHOamG_Hvtj
Coming soon!
Video 4: Chapters 10-12
Chapter 10: Ascent of the Great Precipice Injury
Chapter 11: In the Forests of Danger and Tribulation
Chapter 12: In The Mist
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