Mother Refuses To Let Doctors Give Up on her Daughter's Medical Mystery

No Way

Kertease was not about to let the doctors give up on her daughter. “Doctors said ‘pull the plug,’ ‘she’s braindead,’ things like that,” Kertease later recalled. “I wouldn’t do it.” She felt that it was time to switch medical care. 

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