{"id":195342,"date":"2019-01-30T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=195342"},"modified":"2019-01-31T15:34:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:34:24","slug":"comatose-man-food-water-restored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/comatose-man-food-water-restored\/","title":{"rendered":"Food, water restored to comatose man after mom fights for his life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Life Site News<\/a>)\u00a0Nutrition and hydration have been restored to a 32-year-old man in a coma in an Arizona Catholic hospital after his mom posted heartbreaking videos on social media last week saying that doctors were slowly starving her son to death.<\/p>\n

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David Ruiz, a father of three, suffered a stroke and subsequent brain injury that left him in a coma on December 31.\u00a0 Doctors declared David brain dead about two weeks ago, despite him twitching, raising his toes, and moving his fingers when his mother and other family members talked to him.<\/p>\n

His mother, Patricia \u201cTricia\u201d Adames, 51, made an emotional appeal on Facebook last week to anyone who could help save her son.<\/p>\n

READ:\u00a0Man awakens from 12-year-long coma<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cAs you can see, his body is emaciating. His body is literally deteriorating, it\u2019s disappearing before us because he is being denied nutrition. He is starving in a hospital,\u201d she said in her Jan. 24 video while panning to her son lying in a hospital bed hooked up to tubes and monitors.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am coming to you…asking, \u2018please help me get my son the treatment that he needs, nutrition and hydration.’ He\u2019s being starved at this very moment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Adames said that she believes that if the heart is beating, \u201cthere is life.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s starving in our country. How can that be okay? How is that humanity? No one in this country should ever be denied food and water,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n