{"id":11739,"date":"2014-01-03T07:22:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/?p=11739"},"modified":"2014-01-03T07:22:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-03T13:22:55","slug":"sharons-condition-worsens-due-to-blood-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/sharons-condition-worsens-due-to-blood-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharon&#8217;s condition worsens due to blood infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(JTA) \u2014 Ariel Sharon\u2019s medical condition further deteriorated following a blood infection and multiple organ failure.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Ze\u2019ev Rotstein, the director of Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, said at a press conference Friday morning that over the past 24 hours, doctors have observed a slow deterioration in the functioning of the former Israeli prime minister\u2019s vital organs.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_11740\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11740\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sharon in Jerusalem\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem.jpg 1818w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/202;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11740\" src=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sharon in Jerusalem\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem-1024x691.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/sharon-in-jerusalem.jpg 1818w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-11740\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ariel Sharon is pictured in Jerusalem with the Temple Mount in the background on July 24, 2000. (Flash90)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cHe is receiving medication to stabilize the heart system and the blood vessels and antibiotics to treat the infection, as we have indication of a blood infection,\u201d Rotstein said, according to Army Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Asked by a reporter if Sharon, 85, was in his final days, Rotshein responded saying, \u201cI personally feel so\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, a prominent Israeli rabbi said praying for Sharon\u2019s survival was pointless because his brain is inactive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe always need to pray for any Jew to wake up but if he regains consciousness, he is in a state of severe brain damage,\u201d Rabbi Shlomo Aviner from Jerusalem told the religious Israeli news site Srugim.co.il. \u201cSo what good will waking up do him? No good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sharon\u2019s condition was listed as critical on Thursday following renal failure. Rotstein said the hospital did not plan to perform dialysis treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon has been comatose for almost eight years following a stroke.<\/p>\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_toolbar\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/share-medium.png\" style=\"border:0px; padding-top: 5px; float:left;\" alt=\"Share Button\"\/><\/noscript><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services_t=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"Tumblr\",\"Email\");var hupso_background_t=\"#EAF4FF\";var hupso_border_t=\"#66CCFF\";var hupso_toolbar_size_t=\"medium\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_url_t=\"\";var hupso_title_t=\"Sharon%27s%20condition%20worsens%20due%20to%20blood%20infection\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share_toolbar.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11740,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8859,4741,4733,378,8790,8795,8788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11741,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11739\/revisions\/11741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.crescentcityjewishnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}