It is just as I suspected. She has gone from institution to institution in various different states, shopping for doctors that will give her the diagnosis that pleases her. She once forcefully inserted a feeding tube into her daughter at home. While at the hospital, she attempted to direct the care that the trained professionals were giving ("...telling staff that Justina needed to have her colon flushed and a temporary feeding tube inserted to keep her nutrients up..."). Her daughter always began to act more impaired with her mother at her side. She refers to her daughters mitochondrial disease as "mito", a nickname that she probably picked up with obsessive investigation online, where she decided on her daughters diagnosis for her beforehand. Among the numerous, invasive, dangerous medical interventions that have been given to this poor girl, as a result of her mothers doctor shopping, was an appendixectomy (had no medical effect), and, most bizarrely of all, she had a tube placed into her intestines, which could be activated to force her colon to retract (an incredibly rare and invasive procedure). Her symptoms are also vague, involving things like fatigue (the symptoms of life), and there had been no clear tests to justify the diagnosis (“Metabolic workup was unremarkable,” he wrote, adding, “She has not had a muscle biopsy.”)
Agree 100% with the decision, the judge should be given a medal.
