Post by Adriana Velez
Why would a mother do this? Police are looking for an 11-year-old leukemia patient whose mother removed her from a Phoenix, Arizona hospital where she was being treated last week. Security cameras show the mother leading the daughter, still attached to an IV, past the hospital elevators. They went into a bathroom, where the mother removed the IV and the patient changed her clothes. Then they left. The patient, named Emily, was scheduled to leave the hospital on Thursday. But here's the really scary part: That IV was attached to a catheter in Emily's heart. If not properly removed Emily could get a potentially deadly infection. Her doctors are worried that she could be in grave danger.![]()
Why would a mother do this? Police are looking for an 11-year-old leukemia patient whose mother removed her from a Phoenix, Arizona hospital where she was being treated last week. Security cameras show the mother leading the daughter, still attached to an IV, past the hospital elevators. They went into a bathroom, where the mother removed the IV and the patient changed her clothes. Then they left. The patient, named Emily, was scheduled to leave the hospital on Thursday. But here's the really scary part: That IV was attached to a catheter in Emily's heart. If not properly removed Emily could get a potentially deadly infection. Her doctors are worried that she could be in grave danger.