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    Dad pulls gun to to keep his 'brain dead' son on life support and saves his life

    -"Hey, we need the police stat, to the hospital. We have a family member with a gun."

    This is the call that a staff member at Tomball Regional Medical Center put in 11 months ago, when George Pickering of Pinehurst, Tex., angrily pulled out a 9 mm handgun while standing at his son's hospital bedside.

    Gary Hammond, Tomball police's head of criminal investigations, told the Houston Chronicle at the time that Pickering was "distraught" over the care his son, George Pickering III, was receiving. The younger Pickering was on life support after having a stroke.

    According to witnesses, Pickering yelled, "I'll kill all of you," and pointed the gun at hospital workers. A nurse and Pickering's ex-wife left after he reportedly said, "You don't think that's the only weapon I got."

    Although Pickering was quickly disarmed by another son who was also at the hospital, he refused to surrender to police officers, resulting in an hours-long standoff with SWAT officers in the hospital room, as Pickering held his son's hand all the while.

    Eventually, he was coaxed into surrendering, according to the Chronicle. The incident landed Pickering behind bars on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — for which he was released from jail just this month.

    One of the charges was dropped and the other reduced to a state jail felony. According to CNN affiliate KPRC, Pickering was also given credit for time served.

    Along with Pickering's freedom has come a chance at redemption, as the father recently told KPRC why he felt compelled to threaten violence that day.

    It was because he wanted to save his son's life...

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ved-sons-life/

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    I have said to my wife many times, how many coma people would have survived if the doctors didn't turn off the switch

    The motives of some doctors I don't trust

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    If this ever happened to me....I expect to be permanently kept alive and a shrine build around me where family, loved ones, friends, admirers , the public can come and show respect and off course leave a donation of some sort just in case I wake up
    And yes my songs will always be playing in the background

    I expect everyone on this forum to visit especially Colonel and Nikos

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    If this ever happened to me....I expect to be permanently kept alive and a shrine build around me where family, loved ones, friends, admirers , the public can come and show respect and off course leave a donation of some sort just in case I wake up
    And yes my songs will always be playing in the background

    I expect everyone on this forum to visit especially Colonel and Nikos
    You're asking me to visit the shrine of an impostor along with a young whippersnapper ? You ain't nothing but a houndog in the ghetto stepping on my blue suede shoes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cardinal TT View Post
    If this ever happened to me....I expect to be permanently kept alive and a shrine build around me where family, loved ones, friends, admirers , the public can come and show respect and off course leave a donation of some sort just in case I wake up
    And yes my songs will always be playing in the background

    I expect everyone on this forum to visit especially Colonel and Nikos
    Hey there was a young lady in Mass. who more or less had a shrine built around her. She was Catholic. http://www.csicop.org/si/show/miracl..._audrey_santo/

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    -“Hey, we need the police stat, to the hospital. We have a family member with a gun.”

    This is the call that a staff member at Tomball Regional Medical Center put in 11 months ago, when George Pickering of Pinehurst, Tex., angrily pulled out a 9 mm handgun while standing at his son’s hospital bedside.

    Gary Hammond, Tomball police’s head of criminal investigations, told the Houston Chronicle at the time that Pickering was “distraught” over the care his son, George Pickering III, was receiving. The younger Pickering was on life support after having a stroke.

    According to witnesses, Pickering yelled, “I’ll kill all of you,” and pointed the gun at hospital workers. A nurse and Pickering’s ex-wife left after he reportedly said, “You don’t think that’s the only weapon I got.”

    Although Pickering was quickly disarmed by another son who was also at the hospital, he refused to surrender to police officers, resulting in an hours-long standoff with SWAT officers in the hospital room, as Pickering held his son’s hand all the while.

    Eventually, he was coaxed into surrendering, according to the Chronicle. The incident landed Pickering behind bars on two counts of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon — for which he was released from jail just this month.

    One of the charges was dropped and the other reduced to a state jail felony. According to CNN affiliate KPRC, Pickering was also given credit for time served.

    Along with Pickering’s freedom has come a chance at redemption, as the father recently told KPRC why he felt compelled to threaten violence that day.

    It was because he wanted to save his son’s life...

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...ved-sons-life/
    Hospital staff get a god syndrome sometimes...a nurse refused to allow family to spend the last 12 hours with my dying brother...had another brother not intervened calmly not sure the police would not have been called on ME that night..he negotiated a 5 minute visit each hour by 1 family member...

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    Quote Originally Posted by curly sue View Post
    Hey there was a young lady in Mass. who more or less had a shrine built around her. She was Catholic. http://www.csicop.org/si/show/miracl..._audrey_santo/
    Interesting story...she did die a few years ago:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Santo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Quest View Post
    Hospital staff get a god syndrome sometimes...a nurse refused to allow family to spend the last 12 hours with my dying brother...had another brother not intervened calmly not sure the police would not have been called on ME that night..he negotiated a 5 minute visit each hour by 1 family member...
    That's just crazy, I hope you all reported that nurse. If someone was on hospice experienced personnel know how important it is for family to be with their loved one until the end. I'm so sorry about your brother and what you had to go thru Quest.

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    Quote Originally Posted by krystian View Post
    That's just crazy, I hope you all reported that nurse. If someone was on hospice experienced personnel know how important it is for family to be with their loved one until the end. I'm so sorry about your brother and what you had to go thru Quest.
    We did but the doctor apologized and stated where they leave the head nurse is in charge....

    Thank you. We were confident he was ready to meet the Lord and after a hard life what God did in him hose last years was nothing short of a miracle.

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