Michelle O creates trouble for kids with cancer
'It's a really sorry
day when they kick parents out so this lady can come'
Parents are outraged because they say they’re being
restricted from accompanying their sick children to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Wednesday because first lady Michelle Obama is visiting – and security measures prohibit both
parents from escorting the little patients to medical appointments.
A woman named Angie Rouse Green
posted the following message to Facebook Tuesday:
“RANT: I am LIVID!!!!!! I just got a phone call from a St
Jude mom whose son is battling a brain tumor. … Tomorrow, this little boy has
his MRI. The results come after. His mom was told that she cannot bring her
husband with her to get the MRI results!
“Why you ask?? Well, because the first lady and her entourage
will be in the hospital tomorrow for, I assume, a photo shoot and Secret
Service has pretty much shut down to bare necessity our hospital. Only one
person allowed per patient, no social media in hospital, no photos in hospital,
cars will be towed in garage, more than one person with patient will be turned
away at the gate by Secret Service!”
She added, “People, this is a children’s cancer hospital!
Now a mother may have to receive possible horrible MRI results alone without
the child’s father! Really?! Someone needs to think about the children before
their care is compromised for the sake of publicity!”
St. Jude, a hospital that specializes in treating childhood
cancer and other life-threatening diseases, announced Michelle Obama’s
Wednesday visit with patients and their families.
“She will then take a tour of the hospital,” the website
stated. “The first lady will hear stories from families like the Vickie and
Chelsea Clark. Vickie and her 13-year-old daughter came to St. Jude after
Chelsea was diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2012 and relapsed this summer.”
In reaction to the one-parent policy, another woman posted on Facebook, “I
cannot thank a process that keeps a mother and father from both being with
their child today as they receive the results of their child’s illness. Only
one parent per child is ALLOWED to be in the hospital today. Because the first
lady is coming. … That’s what I’m talking about.”
Sally Coley Leger wrote, “It’s a really sorry day when they
kick parents out so this lady can come. A child could die today without his/her
parents around because the first lady doesn’t want both parents/family with
their loved ones. If you can’t come and let things be normal, then do those
babies an even bigger favor and stay home!”
A woman who uses the Twitter handle “Heterosexual Woman”
tweeted, “Oh you no idea how mad these patients’ families are! Some have
sign[s] saying GO HOME SO MY CHILD GETS TREATMENT TODAY.”
WND contacted St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to ask
about the facility’s policy and security measures put in place for the first
lady’s visit.
Kelly Schulz, vice president of communications for St.
Jude’s, told WND, “What we’ve said is, if you don’t have an appointment today,
please don’t come to the campus. We’ve asked people, if they did have an
appointment, to bring one parent. But we’ve also said if you have a special
circumstance – for example, a single mother who may have other children or some
other special circumstance – absolutely, contact your nurse and we’ll do our
best to accommodate you.”
Asked about the boy mentioned in Facebook posts who is
purportedly battling a brain tumor, she replied, “I’m aware of that. We’ve
already taken care of that family.”
WND asked, “Will both parents be allowed to go with the
boy?”
“I think they have,” she said. “I’m not at liberty to talk
about what’s going to happen with the patients, but I know that the nurses are
making circumstances for families that need it.”
Schulz proceeded to explain how St. Jude’s operates.
“It’s different from any other hospital,” she said. “We have
very few inpatient patients here. Most of our patients live on our campus or
around our campus … We pay for their treatment and their housing and their food
and their travel and everything. So most of our patients are coming into the
campus, going into their different appointments throughout the hospital
throughout the day and then they’re leaving. They’re not sleeping in a hotel.
So it’s not a traditional hospital in that sense.”
Schulz said the security measures are not meant to
inconvenience patients and their families.
“We have asked for people not to come to the campus if they
don’t have to come to the campus,” she said. “Every day we take care of our
patients, and today we’re going above and beyond to make sure that no one is
inconvenienced.
“The reality is, when the first lady comes to visit, you
have Secret Service and you have security on the campus, so it’s not a normal
day.”
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for St. Jude
Children’s Research Hospital.
Note:
Michelle Obama
was a lawyer at Sidley Austin LLP.
Barack Obama was an
intern at Sidley Austin LLP
R. Eden Martin is
counsel at Sidley Austin LLP, and
the president of the Commercial Club of
Chicago.
Newton N. Minow
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
James D. Zirin is
a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP,
and was a director at Human Rights First.
Mark A. Angelson
was a partner at Sidley Austin LLP, and
a director at Human Rights First.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for Human
Rights First, and the Center for
American Progress.
George Soros is the
founder & chairman for the Open Society
Foundations, was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
and a supporter for the Center for
American Progress.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for Human Rights First, and the Center
for American Progress.
John D. Podesta
is the founder of the Center for
American Progress, a counselor for the Barack
Obama administration, and was Tom
Daschle’s counselor.
Tom
Daschle is the chairman for the Center
for American Progress, John D.
Podesta was his counselor, a special policy adviser at Alston & Bird, and a 2008
Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Alston & Bird
is the lobby firm for the St. Jude
Children's Research Hospital.
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