OK. You do the same with Wenger in case he's missed your posts.
I'm not sure I'm "offended", that implies some personal slight, but I am appalled by the way they have acted. They have made this all about them. From the BBC:
Look at the emotive language. Aren't GOSH nasty? Boo! This may amaze them but Charlie is not the only child GOSH are treating, they are not the only parents in a heart-breaking position. GOSH don't have private teams just sitting around to tend to every patient. And why is
their final wish so important? How about what's best for their son? In all their foot-stamping every time they haven't got what they want they seem to have lost sight of what is best for Charlie.
I'm appalled by the way they have lied about their son's condition and his chances of recovery, again painting GOSH as the bad guys "we could have saved him, if only they'd listened". That is not sodding true!
They have allowed their son to continue suffering when it was clear he was beyond hope.
Maybe they genuinely believed they were doing the right thing for him and the chances are I will never be in their position - I certainly hope not - but they are not the first parents to be in this awful position and this sort of behaviour is extremely rare. Most parents accept the futility of the situation. And no, I'm not suggesting doctors are always right and they should have taken it at face value but when expert after expert keep on telling you the same thing there has to be a time when enough is enough.
The point is there are CONSEQUENCES to them behaving like this. As well as allowing Charlie to suffer longer than he should have it has taken away funds from other children, children who have a chance of recovery.
And it has caused a lot of highly dedicated staff a lot of completely unfair criticism and hostility. A friend of mine has a son who nearly died 5 or 6 years ago in a near-drowning. GOSH saved his life and continue to help him with the cerebral palsy the incident left him with. I was talking to her about it and she said:
Just think about that for a minute. Imagine you had a proper job. Not like you and me, but like them. A job where you actually make a difference to people's lives. A job when you're actually doing some good in the world. Whatever you think of doctors I think most of them are doing their best for their patients. And I'm sure the nurses are too. My dad was in hospital a couple of months ago and I was hugely impressed by all the staff there who you could see were doing their best with their limited resources to do what they could for their patients. So imagine you had a job like that, hadn't had more than a 1% pay rise for the last 7 years and now you're suddenly getting abused by people. F*** that. I'd be out the door like a shot.
So yes, I have a problem with the parents for creating a situation where these staff are getting a completely unwarranted and unfair level of abuse. For once, I don't blame the press. They've been loving it of course, but the parents have courted it as it suited their agenda.