Pondering over coffee.... what we know NOW about how hospitals operate - and what they do when they know someone is on the organ donor list (huge, huge, huge profits made by them by harvesting and selling organs).
This was 2015 - but it totally makes sense NOW in 2026. Thank God for this Dad.
... doctors wanted to remove his organs, Dad said "he's not brain dead yet" (and was right).
The doting dad felt he had no option after doctors declared there was no hope for his son George III, who suffered a massive stroke in January.
Medics had ordered a “terminal wean”, which would have slowly taken life support away from the 27-year-old until he died, but George II wouldn’t allow it to happen.
Pickering’s ex-wife and other son had agreed, and the young man was put on the organ donor list.
But the 59-year-old told KPRC: “They were moving too fast. The hospital, the nurses, the doctors. I knew if I had three or four hours that night, I would know whether George was brain dead.”
When Pickering Sr finally got the answer he needed from his son, he handed himself over to authorities peacefully after a three-hour stand-off.
His son is now out of the coma and fully recovered after a miraculous turn of events.
Pickering Sr was released earlier this month after the charges against him were eventually dropped.
His son said: “There was a law broken, but it was broken for all the right reasons. I’m here now because of it. It was love, it was love.”