Charlotte Wyatt

It’s been a tumultuous week for us. On Thursday Charlotte’s website was removed from blogger, and since then we’ve been working on recovering content and moving here. But the censorship problems are only the tip of the iceburg, as the Wyatt’s family case is being looked at by the courts and the DNR order– still over her because of her infection last spring– is being reconsidered.

It seems the NHS may be amenable to removing the order, for the time being– so long as they can reapply whenever Charlotte gets sick again and there is disagreement about her care. The insidious bit about this is that they seem to be partnering with the social service to make sure whoever has the right to take care of her doesn’t disagree with them about her “best interests” and most especially isn’t Darren.

Darren desperately wants her home; and is willing to do anything to make that happen. He has worked hard at putting his life together after the suicide attempt last spring, and is quite certain he can cope with the challenges of her full-time care. But the social services seem to be blocking his attempts to get re-assessed, and want to go instead with the negative report from this spring.

How can you take a baby from people who care deeply about her and give her to strangers? We remember the words of the court appointed guardian from the court case in 2004:

Sadly the evidence as the case has gone on has tended to establish with increasing clarity the extent of Charlotte’s disabilities and illness, the painful quality of life she currently endures, and the limits of any potential quality of life in the event that she survived invasive treatment

[….]

It is with great reluctance that the Guardian is driven to the conclusion that Charlotte’s quality of life is so limited, so full of pain, so absent of the possibility of significant pleasure that in the event that her condition deteriorated to a level where she required ventilation such invasive and painful treatment would not be in her best interests.

It is impossible for a court-appointed guardian or carer to ever be more than an echo of the courts, of the doctors, of the NHS system who stood together against her when she needed help most. These are the same who stated inequivocally that she was blind, deaf, had an intolerable quality of life, would never feel anything but pain or ever get any better; and who have been proven, by her beautiful life and her ever-fighting spirit, so resoundingly wrong? How can we defer to their decisions now?

Please, don’t take Charlotte from the people who care for her! She needs her own daddy, not the “loving-care” of the ever cost-concious state.