Did you just hear that press conference...he said NO AMOUNT OF THERAPY WOULD HAVE HELPED HER. WHy can't you just accept that. She had intense therapy for five years after the initial event. IT DID NOT HELP. NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED. Her brain was more than half the normal size. I heard the coroner say BRAIN DEAD and BLIND, which was new to me as well. You sound like her mother was never let in the room, and you know that's a lie. 15 years of this. 15 years.
This is foxnews.com report on the autopsy results announcement:
Autopsy: Schiavo Was Not Abused
Wednesday, June 15, 2005
Associated Press
LARGO, Fla. — Terri Schiavo did not suffer any trauma prior to her 1990 collapse and her brain was about half of normal size when she died, according to results released Wednesday of an autopsy conducted on the severely brain-damaged woman.
Pinellas-Pasco Medical Examiner Jon Thogmartin concluded that there was no evidence of strangulation or other trauma leading to her collapse. He also said she did not appear to have suffered a heart attack and there was no evidence that she was given harmful drugs or other substances prior to her death.
Autopsy results on the 41-year-old brain damaged woman were made public Wednesday, more than two months after Schiavo's death ended an internationally watched right-to-die battle that engulfed the courts, Congress and the White House and divided the country.
She died from dehydration, he said.
He said she would not have been able to eat or drink if she had been given food by mouth as her parents' requested.
"Removal of her feeding tube would have resulted in her death whether she was fed or hydrated by mouth or not," Thogmartin told reporters.
Thogmartin said that Schiavo's brain was about half of its expected size when she died March 31 in a Pinellas Park hospice, 13 days after her feeding tube was removed.
"The brain weighed 615 grams, roughly half of the expected weight of a human brain. ... This damage was irreversible, and no amount of therapy or treatment would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons."
Huh!? Wasn't I told repeatedly that she had "NO" brain, that she only had cerebrospinal fluid in her brain cavity, etc. Are you telling me that she actually DID have a brain, albeit half size?