[queenkathy]

If you read her discharge summary from the hospital, which I linked above, you will see that she had the feeding tube inserted AT the hospital. Not after. And was never fed by mouth after that. She failed three years, consecutive years, of swallow tests. At which time it was recommended they be discontinued Are you referring to the link in post #57? Because that doesn't look like what you talk about. That just states that the court didn't say it didn't happen, only that it was so long ago that it had no pertinence to the current case.

[Peach]

I'm am not following what you said at all.

[MHGinTN]

There are videos of Terri during the time she was receiving therapy; in the videos she is seen swallowing on her own and licking her lips. That period --post initial trauma-- was the time she was receiving therapy and her then husband was doing everything he could to win lawsuits. As soon as the suits were won and the monies came under his control, he halted ALL therapy and even threatened people who tried to give minimal therapeutic aid to Terri. The three swallow test peach refers to were done after many months of no more therapy and are therefore meaningful only if one ignores the husbands abuse via forced neglect, since Terri clearly was able to swallow on her own when therapy was being done. But that smarmy highly selective characterization has come to be the expected operative methodology of posters wanting to slam the Terri supporters as 'not as smart' as those defending the putting down of a disabled woman by a probate judge not mandated to issue execution orders.