Posted on 02/26/2005 3:47:17 PM PST by Hildy
For all of those who have called me every imaginable name because I dare to suggest that there are some things worse than death...I don't wish you on you anything that poor woman goes through on a minute by minute basis. Because you know so much, and are so sure that you are right because you are all so freakin self-righteous...I'm leaving FreeRepublic because I no longer want to be a part of something that has become so twisted. Hannity is right, this website has been hijacked. It was a good run...but we'll find another place. Save your jabs, I won't be reading them. To those who have privately agreed with me, and there are many, thank you. I'm just worn out and frankly, don't even care what most here think.
Well, you are an honorable person. : )
You are sure not alone in drawing the wrong conclusion. I just wish others would show such integrity upon the realization.
I'm so sorry about your son. God bless you.
Next time, I will write slower. Sorry if you either can’t recognize or probably don’t care what I have said on this thread.
1)"...you either can't recognize..." - You are the only person I've responded to, on this thread. 2) "... or probably do not care..." - I do not respond casually to anyone. 3) " Next time, I will write slower." - as to this dismissive, I will keep my comment private. Best regards, Treader
Huh? Would you repeat all after garble please.
please.
Bye bye. Get back to me when you can have grown up converstions.
You are correct! See ya then...
That doesn't apply to this case and we all know that. Hildy, you approve of abortion as well. ( That child never got a right to decide their own fate.)
Perhaps the real issue is that you approve of killing someone when they are inconvenient and that goes against the grain of the people who you have been flaming with.
Terri has rights and they have been trampled all over.
The fact that she is still alive proves she has a desire to live and her desire must be very,very strong.
She is keeping her self breathing by the way. Your argument is hogwash.
And you speak for God?
You are a very sick individual.
Well, I'm still here, so SUFFER.
Well, I'm still here, so SUFFER.
I don't care one way or the other.
You were the one who said that you were leaving.
Whatever makes you happy makes me happy.
later
LETTER FROM TOM BRODERSON, ATTORNEY PATRICIA ANDERSON'S HUSBAND, ON HIS VISITS WITH TERRI
My name is Tom Brodersen. I am attorney Patricia Anderson's office manager, formerly her fiance, and more recently, her husband. I have personal knowledge about Terri Schiavo's actual neurological condition and
responsiveness which we could not use before because of Pat's role as attorney for the Schindler family. That is now changed, and I cannot sit quietly by and passively observe a miscarriage of justice.
During the period of September to November of 2002 (from just before toshortly after the medical evidentiary hearing featuring five doctors as witnesses), I spent time with Terri Schiavo, as a person (briefly) on her visitors list.
During that time I gently spoke to her, built rapport and trust, sang to her, played music for her, and encouraged her to vocalize. Over the twenty days or so that I visited with Terri, I observed that, while Terri is distrustful of strangers, she gradually warmed up to me (and not so gradually after Bob, Mary and I sang "Those Were the Days" to her as a trio!). Terri responds to a variety of stimulii, including responding to both her mother's and my voices, both in person and over the phone, by fixing her attention and frequently by laughing. When I sang to her, she often VOCALIZED, in her best effort to sing along with
me. She recognizes and takes great pleasure in certain singers and songs which are her favorites (most especially John Denver singing "Country Roads"). She learned to love several songs I sang to her with which she didn't seem to be familiar with, but others she never learned to appreciate (just not her cup of tea, obviously).
She responded to gentle requests if given time and patience, such as lifting her right leg (three times out of four requests, the other time she lifted her left leg instead). While she does not have consistent control over her eyes to blink or look this way or that, she has excellent control over her breathing, diaphram and voice, and will vocalize in various patterns if asked. While trying to work out a yes/no system with sounds, Terri initially answered the question "Terri, are you ten feet tall" by moaning twice, which is the response for "No," then she spontaneously whispered the word "No" in response to the question "Terry, are you purple?". At that point I abandoned the sounding system and started trying to teach her to say "Yeah" as best as she could. Bob Schindler
has several recordings of her sort of saying the word "Yeah" shortly after that.
Unfortunately, I was then taken off Terri's visitors list, but on successive occasions (as recently as last October, approximately two years since I last saw her in person), when her father placed a phone to Terri's ear so I could talk to her, she laughed as soon as she heard my voice, andtried to sing along with me when I sang to her over the phone.
Terri is not just "in there," she is very responsive, she loves music, and she is my friend. Please don't kill her.
Tom Brodersen
http://fight4terri.blogspot.com/2005/03/from-tom-broderson-pat-andersons.html
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