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Father of Aaron Hatcher, a former special needs student that allegedly died after teachers within the Fulton County public schools physically abused him, has had a heart attack. Ronald Hatcher also known as Singer Rahn Anthoni had a heart attack at his Atlanta home on May 8th and will undergo heart surgery on Friday, May 11th at Gwinnett Medical Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia.
Hatcher and his wife have recently filed a $10.5 million lawsuit against the district and 15 Fulton County public school employees according to WGCL-TV.
Ronald Hatcher
In March the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported a Fulton County Schools internal investigation substantiating teachers had physically and verbally abused special needs students, including Aaron.
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District officials never told the Hatchers of the abuse, according to the lawsuit.
The allegations include assault and battery, false imprisonment, negligent hiring, negligent supervision, intentional infliction of emotional distress and civil rights violations.
Dr. Justiz a Cardiothoracic Surgeon will head the delicate heart surgery, “pulmonary thromboendarterectomy”, which removes the clots from the pulmonary arteries and restores blood flow. The surgery involves opening the chest and can take from four to 10 hours.
Family and friends close to Hatcher insist his current health condition stem from the stress of the lawsuit and the death of his son, Aaron. Teachers involved have yet to be arrested.
According to WebMD, stress left unmanaged can lead to emotional, psychological, and even physical problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, chest pains, or irregular heartbeats.
Medical researchers aren’t sure exactly how stress increases the risk of heart disease. Stress itself might be a risk factor, or it could be that high levels of stress make other risk factors (such as high cholesterol or high blood pressure) worse. For example, if you are under stress, your blood pressure goes up, you may overeat, you may exercise less, and you may be more likely to smoke.
If stress itself is a risk factor for heart disease, it could be because chronic stress exposes your body to unhealthy, persistently elevated levels of stress hormones like adrenaline and cortisol. Studies also link stress to changes in the way blood clots, which increases the risk of heart attack.
Stress can be caused by a physical or emotional change, or a change in your environment that requires you to adjust or respond. Things that make you feel stressed are called “stressors.”
Stressors can be minor hassles, major lifestyle changes, or a combination of both. Being able to identify stressors in your life and releasing the tension they cause are the keys to managing stress.
Below are some common stressors that can affect people at all stages of life.
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett, announced Tuesday that he has been diagnosed with cancer.
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In a letter to shareholders, Buffett, 81, said that he had been diagnosed with stage I prostate cancer.
“The good news is that I’ve been told by my doctors that my condition is not remotely life-threatening or even debilitating in any meaningful way,” Buffett said in the letter.
The savvy investor will begin a two-month treatment of daily radiation in mid-July. He said his travel will be restricted during that time but it will not otherwise change his daily routine.
“I will let shareholders know immediately should my health situation change. Eventually, of course, it will; but I believe that day is a long way off,” he said.
Most recently, actor Ryan O’neal has came out and announced he has stage 4 prostate cancer.
Photo credit: Barcroft Media - Happy: Four-year-old conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista Hogan who have amazed doctors by seeing through each other's eyes
(DailyMail.co.uk) Conjoined twins Krista and Tatiana have stunned the world’s medical experts by seeing through each other’s eyes.
The pretty four-year-old twins have two separate bodies but share the same brain.
The girls have a conjoined thalamus, the part of the brain that sends physical sensations and motor functions to the cerebral cortex, allowing them to hear each other’s thoughts and see through each other’s eyes.
But it wasn’t until their proud mum Felicia Simms saw them playing that she discovered that they could see through each other’s eyes.
She said: ‘When they are playing, one of the girls will reach over and grab something from her sister’s side and know exactly where it is without possibly being able to see it.
‘It’s absolutely awesome to watch them sometimes because there’s no way she can see the toy she is reaching for and it’s just incredible.’ The girls also seem to experience each other’s emotions.
‘If one of the girls is hurt, the other can feel it and if you discipline one the other will also cry.’
The girls, from Vernon, British Columbia, Canada,have been receiving constant medical care since they were born.
Paediatric neurosurgeon Doug Cochrane, who has looked after them from birth, confirmed they can see through each other’s eyes.
He said: ‘The twins are sharing signals from the other twin’s visual field.
‘One twin may see what the other twin does, as the brain of one of the girls receives electronic impulses from the retina of the opposite twin.’
Felicia and her childhood sweetheart, Brendan 26, were unaware their daughters were conjoined until she was five months pregnant.
She underwent an ultrasound scan which diagnosed the twins as having a condition known as Craniopagus.
Felicia said: ‘The doctors told me: ‘The twins are joined together. Further tests are needed, but at the moment we know they are linked in some way’.
‘I felt like someone had hit me with a sledgehammer.It all seemed unreal, surreal really, like I was living in a dream and about to wake up.
‘But seeing them on the ultrasound, it suddenly all became very real. Whatever happened though, I knew I was going to give them the best possible shot at life that I could.’
Incredibly rare, only eight cases have ever been documented and just three of those have survived the birth.
When the girls were born by caesarean section they weighed just six-and-a-half pounds.
The girls had separate bodies but were joined just above the ear and Krista was pumping and filtering the blood through her kidneys.
‘She is basically keeping both of them alive,’ Felicia says.
‘Their brain is knitted together so any attempt to split it could be fatal to one or both of them.’
Felicia, who is also mum to Rosa, Christopher, and Shaylee, said she never considered a termination but says she received hate mail over the years since the twins’ birth.
‘They called the girls freaks,’ she explains. ‘The nameless letters said that I should never have had them.
‘But I didn’t pay them much heed. After all if they weren’t prepared to give up their names, then why should I care.’
The family agrees Krista is the bossy one of the pair, while Tatiana is more laid-back and follows Krista wherever she wants to go.
Felicia said: ‘Tatiana is definitely the more laid back girl.
‘She does what her sister tells her most of the time, Krista is the bossy one. I call her my little bully.’
The twins' grandfather pushes the girls in a customised pram
Photo Credit: Allison Gowens
The profile of HIV and AIDS patients in California has shifted significantly since the disease first made headlines 30 years ago, reflecting the success of drugs to extend patients’ lives and the failures to stem the spread of the disease in diverse communities.
A statewide analysis of health data [PDF] completed in recognition of World AIDS Day, celebrated today, reveals the changing face of patients in the state, including an increase in older patients and rising rates of infection among blacks and Hispanics.
The review by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development also shows that hospitalization rates among HIV and AIDS patients have plummeted since 1988, reflecting the power of antiretroviral drug cocktails to keep the condition in check.
Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a conference call with reporters yesterday that he was a family doctor in Redding in the 1990s when he saw young men return to their families to die.
“We’ve come a long way since then,” he said. “There have been miraculous advances in treatment, yet we’ve still got a ways to go.”
Among the findings:
Public health authorities endorsed HIV testing as a major means of stemming disease transmission, saying as many as 20 percent of people living with the condition don’t know they have it.
The report warns that the gains in patient stability and longevity might be reversed if access to antiretroviral drugs is limited.
Whitney Engeran-Cordova, senior director of public health for the Los Angeles-based AIDS Healthcare Foundation, said the organization has been watching the trends discussed in the new report and is seeking solutions.
He said the group has done intense advocacy in states such as Florida and Ohio that proposed limiting access to AIDS Drug Assistance Programs that pay for drugs that help freeze disease transmission and progression. The group also has called on drugmakers to curb the $11,000 annual price tag on the drugs.
The organization also has done outreach in minority communities and sent mobile HIV testing vans to black neighborhoods.
Engeran-Cordova said the latest data changing the way the advocacy community works has been a finding that as many as 40 percent of people who learn they have HIV take no steps to seek health care. “They feel fine, or they’re scared,” he said.
He said his group is sending volunteers with iPads to testing sites and getting appointments for people who test positive at their network of clinics. The AIDS Healthcare Foundation is also advocating for more widespread HIV testing, including at the emergency room.
“If we don’t do something systemic,” he said, “then we’ve lost the battle.”
News Source:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/2011/dec/01/hiv-aids-rates-rise-sharply-among-blacks-hispanics/
Everyone within the school system is mandated to play a part in protecting our children. Creating a safe learning environment, identifying pupils who are suffering or at risk of harm and then taking appropriate action to insure children are safe at home and at school. These should be some of the actions taken by elected and voluntary members of the school administrations. I realize many of you may say, it is; but in all actuality, it isn’t.
I’m neither a child protection specialist nor a trained social worker. I am; however, a mother, daughter, friend, activist and business owner who has stumbled across the scandalous disregard of two Fulton county schools that failed to protect a disabled child.
I am not saying there is no one within the Fulton county school district that has empathy. There are people who care passionately about the rights of disabled children. Most professionals who choose to work with disabled children do their best to protect them from harm; but they’re up against the system, and the system just isn’t geared up to meet the needs of disabled youth.
The most recent major research project in the United States by Patricia Sullivan and John Knutson, found that disabled children were over three times more likely to be abused or neglected than able-bodied children. Three times. This should be ringing alarm bells right through the Departments of Health and Education, but it isn’t.
In regards to the safeguarding of our children, neither the US Education Department nor the US Department of Health and Human Services seldom mention incapacitated youth, these children are rarely more than a footnote in important guidance papers.
Part of the trouble is that we simply don’t have information about the level of maltreatment of disabled children. These statistics are lacking because the Department of Health does not require Child Protection Registers to identify whether children they list have disabilities. If this was done, at least we would know how many children with disabilities are on the register, in what way they were abused and what action was taken. Until this happens, we will not know the scale of the problem.
A report from the Government Accountability Office released an article in 2009 that stated, children with disabilities are being secluded from classmates and restrained against their will to control their behavior — interventions that have led to harm and, in rare cases, deaths. In many cases, the restraints happen even when students aren’t physically aggressive or dangerous.
In one case, a New York school confined a 9-year-old with learning disabilities to a “small, dirty room” 75 times in six months for whistling, slouching and hand-waving. In another, a Florida teacher’s aide gagged and duct-taped five misbehaving children to their desks; and police say a 14-year-old boy died when a special-education teacher in Texas lay on top of the student when he would not stay seated. Police ruled it a homicide, but a grand jury rejected criminal charges.
The findings from the GAO, Congress’ investigative arm, stop short of attaching a hard number to how many children are subjected to the practices, but investigators say they found “hundreds of allegations” of abuse involving restraint or seclusion at schools from 1990 to 2009; in Texas and California, they say, public schools recorded a combined 33,095 instances in the past school year alone.
The report details 10 children’s cases, four of which ended in death. Unlike in hospitals or residential treatment centers, there’s no federal system to regulate such practices in schools — and teachers are often inadequately trained, GAO says.
Only seven states even require that educators get training before they’re allowed to restrict children, and only five states have banned “prone restraint,” which ended in the death of the Texas student.
“A child’s fate should not depend on what state they live in,” says U.S. Rep. George Miller, a California Democrat who requested the report.
It would be nice if that was not the case, however, in the Hatcher family it was. Below is a devastating story that spanned three years, 2 schools, and one school district. It is this story that has pushed me to take a more aggressive approach in bringing more awareness with the hopes of helping all children.
Teacher: Kathy Durden
From what we have gathered via video, audio and documented reports, on multiple occasions Kathy Durden and Melanie Pickens, teachers from Hopewell Middle and Roswell High School, in Georgia, allegedly brutalized Aaron Hatcher, to the point of death, according to the family.
To date, there has been no justice for young Aaron Hatcher. The authorities slithered out of its responsibility by claiming there was no crime.
No justice then for Aaron?
What does that say about our judicial system?
What message does it give to abusers?
Account from Aaron Hatcher’s father, Ronald Hatcher:
I will start from when this whole ordeal began, from 2004-2007. My wife and I were not aware of any abuse that was going on nor of any prior investigation.
I later discovered there was an investigation involving some of Aaron’s classmates who were allegedly being abused. The report I received was from one of the abused student’s parent, who found my family shortly after they discovered Aaron had passed away.( March 19, 2011)
Aaron Hatcher
Children were being abused at an alarming rate and it has been documented and recorded.
On behalf of my son Aaron, I am searching for a lawyer to assist my family and bring justice for my son, as of today, I have not found one to represent us.
You must know, when we found out about these allegations we were devastated and speechless. But we were born fighters, raised in some of the toughest cities in the United States; they didn’t want to mess with our family. We would take it to the Supreme Court if we had to. For sure, the system would see this case for what it was. Blatant child abuse.
Eyewitness reports prove
the abuse inflicted on young Aaron.
The school district stood by their decision on how the teachers handled the punishments, “Children like Aaron are physically aggressive and dangerous,” one school counselor said.
Ironically, it appeared more like tactics of terrorism, than a childhood punishment.
We learned of this after his death.
During this trying time in his life, Aaron would come home crying constantly. This eventually led me and his Grandmother to make trips to the school to investigate. Aaron appeared to always be in so much pain, if we touched him he would flinch. There were many occasions when we decided to take him to the emergency room because of discoloration in his skin, at basic fall points, or a bruise, that we later discovered was a broken bone or a leg out of pocket. We were devastated because it seemed there were no answers, no explanations other than his own clumsiness.
We knew things were amidst; this is why we decided to proceed with the investigation.
Our son had not been his young, joyful self for years; it was like his soul was dimming, a little at a time.
We later learned the abuse went back as far as 2001, which also entailed verbal abuse.
Eventually things got considerably worse; we were forced to have his private nurse attend school with him on a daily basis, to be our eyes and ears. She advised that Aaron’s teacher “Kathy Durden,” was now physically abusing him. At this juncture in his young life, Aaron’s health took a decline and due to the abuse his body sustained, it caused his spine to become deformed creating spinal issues that drastically affected his neck movements. One of the bones in his leg had also become dislocated, which our Doctor agreed it could have been caused by multiple falls.
A handful of students were witnesses in this complaint, but through some technicality they were discredited one by one because they were “unreliable,” according to school officials.
Aaron’s nurse also reported to us that Kathy Durden was snatching his neck by force, causing him to have trouble breathing. He had to turn his neck a certain way just so he could breath normally. When the nurse protested this action the teacher said, “his mom should teach him how to turn his head”. Despite our outcry to the principal and other staff nothing was done. The teacher was instructed to let Aaron’s nurse do her job and the teacher would do hers. My son’s nurse was dedicated to helping him in any and every way possible. On our behalf she did report the incidents that were witnessed by her, to only be threatened with the lost of her job if she proceeded. She was eventually fired for sharing patient information with us.
On one occasion I made a surprise visit to the school and found that the teacher had made her own neck restraint for Aaron, which left deep abrasions on his neck. Over the course of time there were new deformities becoming visible, which our doctor noted was caused by the way Aaron was positioned in the chair as well as other documented bruises.
This was outlandish, please note, there was no prior approval from a doctor, myself or my wife to proceed with these types of restraints. We would NOT have allowed it.
Not shortly after, Aaron passed away from a heart attack. We wholeheartedly believe his untimely death was triggered by all the extra stress and unnecessary pain in his young life.
It is without a doubt a parent’s worst nightmare to come to the realization that your “all,” was just not good enough. Nevertheless, we may have not been able to give Aaron justice in life, but he will be rewarded in death.
Our fight has only just begun, we know Aaron was being abused and that other children are also being victimized at the hands of a few bad teachers within the Fulton county schools, within schools all across the country, all around the world.
Voices of the children have been heard, but no one with the power to change things has been listening…not yet..anyway.
Please help us spread the word to stop the maltreatment of disabled children within Fulton county schools and across the world.
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The Hatcher family is currently interviewing legal teams as well as putting together a new foundation in his son’s name, “The Aaron Hatcher Foundation-Stopping the Maltreatment of Disabled Children.” Contact Ronald Hatcher for more information @ (678)754-1539.
Contact Carla B. of EOTM Public Relations to schedule an interview @ (213)290-3573 –
Submit media credentials to attend the press conference in Atlanta Ga by emailing pr@eotmradio.com. Date and location to be disclosed at a later date.
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Update: 8/11/2011
Since the release of our blog there has been major mainstream attention to Rahn Anthoni’s case.We also has since omitted certain parts of the article due to our discretion.
Anthoni appeared on Channel 2 in Atlanta (8-11-2011) to share his story. You can view the interview below.
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28839148/detail.html
CBS News reported yesterday that ground-breaking headway has been achieved in the field of aneurysms. A new super-glue like material is set to save lives across the country.
An aneurysm occurs when a blood vessel stretches and sometimes bursts. According to The Brain Aneurysm Foundation, approximately 25,000 Americans suffer from aneurysms each year. Aneurysms can lead to severe disability or even death in some cases. In order to prevent bleeding it’s necessary to fill the aneurysm space, and the new treatments offers just that.
CBS News Correspondent Don Teague reported on “The Early Show,” yesterday that a new treatment for aneurysms is saving lives. The treatment acts as a sort of super-glue for the body and this life changing procedure is changing lives across the nation.
The FDA (Federal Drug Administration) advises that the use of the new technology should be performed by physicians who have had adequate training with this procedure. Physicians looking to use this new treatment should contact an ev3 Neurovascular sales representative for information on training courses.
