[jdm]

"She didn't have enough BRAIN left to allow vision."

There was videotape of her following a balloon with her eyes. It's possible (but doubtful) that a blind person could follow an object moving through air.

[mnehring]

Devil's advocate comment:
On the Balloon issue, she may have been in a low vision state at this time and could see only movement.. this area deteriorated more since..

I withhold personal judgment as I'm not an expert.

[oldcomputerguy]

" There was videotape of her following a balloon with her eyes"

You are making the assumption that they brought the balloon out and she immediately followed it. How about if they had the balloon out for hours and got 10 seconds of video that matched up with her movements?

[Dasaji]

"She didn't have enough BRAIN left to allow vision."

They said that after my mom had surgery that involved removing a large portion of her right occipital lobe. But she sees - despite the fact that the neuro-opthamologist says she *shouldn't* be able to see based on field vision tests. So, this Doc "says she can't see" and my Mom, well, she plays Boggle on games.com daily and is in the highest category for scores.

If only Terri could have communicated just a smidgen about things...

[Hoodlum91]

I saw that video and thought the same thing.

Then I saw the rest of the video. Terri's eyes were rolling back and forth. It took 4-5 times of waving the balloon around to get her to "follow" it. The longer version made it appear that whoever was holding the balloon was trying to get it to match Terri's eye movements, not the other way around.

[Bones75]

"There was videotape of her following a balloon with her eyes. It's possible (but doubtful) that a blind person could follow an object moving through air."

FOr that last time. She is not following the baloon with her eyes in that video. #1 The person holding the baloon is following her eyes, not the other way around. (watch it again).. #2, that little snippett was taken from hours of video where her movements are completely random. They cut out one small section where her eyes and the baloon happened to move the same way and tried to use that as evidence of cognisence. Now matter how much you WANT to believe otherwise, those are the cold hard facts.