lakey asked the following:
#644 of 656
"I read the brief some time ago. The problem (only one?), in my layman's view, is that it omits any mention of Michael taking Terri to California for experimental treatment. That came as a big surprise to me. Some freepers believe that the treatment resulted in her fractures. It IS a distinct possibility.
I don't quite understand why the glossing over, or the grey areas. Could be I've missed something along the way."
I'm not sure what part of the brief you are talking about, but I believe there is no mention of the experimental treatment because this was prior to the verdict to award the money for Terri's rehabilitation. After the award there wasn't any attempt by the husband to rehabilitate Terri.
Most of us here had heard about the experimental treatment, but I don't know the date. Does anyone have the dates handy for the California treatment and the date Michael won the money for Terri's rehabilitation?
As far as some Freepers believing that this caused Terri's fractures, I've never heard that before and I very seriously doubt that the medical tratment caused the fractures. If that were true the husband and his lawyer would be all over it suing the doctors that did the treatment.
December 1990-from St. Pete's Times, "Mrs. Schiavo... underwent surgery, performed by Dr. Yoshio Hosobuchi of the University of California at San Francisco in December, to implant a stimulator in her brain. The brain stimulator implant was a success, said her husband, Mike. Mrs. Schiavo is slowly emerging from the coma at the Mediplex Medical Center, a neurological care center in Bradenton, he said. She will undergo at least a year of speech, occupational and physical therapy."
He won the medical malpractice suit November 1992, payment arrived about Jan. 1993
pc93 says the Larry King interview of the Schindlers is postponed till Friday. Would be great if he would ask them more on the subject of the fractures.
That Michael would have sued for fractures. Absolutely! But, if he allowed experimental treatment/surgery, he would have had to sign a release, a waiver, etc.
Among her injuries, didn't Terri suffer a fracture of one thigh? That would have required a cast. If she had such an injury(ies) upon admittance to Emergency, I can't understand why police didn't investigate further for abuse.
I believe she did have some therapy in the early 1990s. One report said she responded "a little better" in the late afternoon than in the morning - and another program was being prepared for her. To my knowledge, nothing more was done after that.
In the case of Nancy Cruzon(sp?), there was no response.