Someone Lives, Someone Dies Except For Sarah

Well, Obamaite Kathleen Sebelius, decided she was the god who decided who lived and who died.
Fortunately, the family of Sarah Murnaghan found a common sense judge who saw things differently and now Sarah is on her way to recovery after receiving a double lung transplant.
From the LVRJ: A 10-year-old girl whose efforts to qualify for an organ donation spurred public debate over how organs are allocated underwent a successful double-lung transplant on Wednesday, the girl’s family said.
Sarah Murnaghan, who suffers from severe cystic fibrosis, received new lungs from an adult donor at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, spokeswoman Tracy Simon said.
The Murnaghan family said it was “thrilled” to share the news that Sarah was out of surgery.
“Her doctors are very pleased with both her progress during the procedure and her prognosis for recovery,” the family said in a statement.
During double-lung transplants, surgeons must open up the patient’s chest. Complications can include rejection of the new lungs and infection.
Sarah went into surgery around 11 a.m. Wednesday, and the procedure lasted about six hours, her family said.
“The surgeons had no challenges resizing and transplanting the donor lungs - the surgery went smoothly, and Sarah did extremely well,” it said. “She is in the process of getting settled in the ICU and now her recovery begins. We expect it will be a long road, but we’re not going for easy, we’re going for possible.”
Sarah’s family and the family of another cystic fibrosis patient at the same hospital challenged transplant policy that made children under 12 wait for pediatric lungs to become available or be offered lungs donated by adults only after adolescents and adults on the waiting list had been considered. They said pediatric lungs are rarely donated.
Sarah’s aunt, Sharon Ruddock, said the donor lungs came in through normal channels as a result of being on the adult donor list.
“It was a direct result of the ruling that allowed her to be put on the adult list,” Ruddock said. “It was not pediatric lungs, she would have never gotten these lungs otherwise.”  http://www.reviewjournal.com/life/health/pennsylvania-girls-double-lung-transplant-deemed-success
There are guarantees that Sarah will survive the transplant, just like there is no guarantee that an adult will survive.
One of the jobs I had when going through school was a lab runner at the U.W. Hospital and Clinics in Madison.  While the job certainly didn't make any kind of expert on medical school, I did learn a lot about transplants by talking to people who had undergone transplants or about to get a transplant.
Sarah will have a long road ahead of her, having to take a cocktail of medications for the rest of her life and she will always have the fear the lungs will suddenly stop working and she will go into respiratory failure, but at least she has a good chance to live a decade or longer instead of dying next week.
So, in the end, the Obama administration was wrong... again.  They could have changed the rules but chose not.  They chose death for the little girl and fortunately, a judge saw it differently  and now the Sarah has a chance for a do over in life.