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To answeer your points on alleged abuse, here is a copy of some useful information I got that comes from available records. It is convincing to me that there was no abuse.

http://home.comcast.net/~trinity_tx/attacktheory.htm

Note: I have no love for Michael Schiavo. I see many things I would have done differently. For all I know, the autopsy could come back and show real evidence of abuse.

But, in the meantime, in the interest of fairness, and for the sake of those who care about separating rumor from reality, I offer this for consideration...


Terri Schiavo's chemical/electrolyte profile, her infertility and lack of cycles, her weight loss (~250 lbs at age 18 to between 110-120 when she collapsed - her parents via Wolfson), fatigue, and even "brittle" bones are all consistent with bulimia.

Cite : Terri Schiavo's discharge summary,
and the Wolfson Report to Jeb Bush)



But, in spite of the fact that that is by far the most consistent explanation for both the cause of her cardiac arrest, and the actual bone scan and follow-up x-ray findings, an "attack theory" has been promoted, and aggressively pushed, by means of equivocation and exaggeration.

Not only does the attack theory create inconsistencies and unanswered questions, such as,

-how did her potassium get so "severely" and acutely low,
-explain her chemical profile, (malnourishment, low calcium, hypopotassemia)
-why did he call for help at that hour,
-why not pretend to be resuscitating her,
-why no outward signs of such a knocking up,
-why insist on cremating her when it means an autopsy must be done,
-why ask for an investigation into the cause of her collapse by defensive medical doctors? (malpractice trial) And why would not those doctors be speaking up now?
and finally,

Why wasn't there an "attack theory" brought up at the malpractice trial, or by the Schiavos' insurance companies, if there were such "evidence" of abuse?


...but it is based on 4 deceptions:

1. The exaggeration of the words of her co-worker and friend, Jackie Rhodes, who gave this testimony at the 2000 trial:
terrisfight.org

She is often quoted as saying things such as, she was "worried about her going home that night" "begged her not to go home" "come over so you will be safe". But she did not say that in her testimony, even with leading questions and, as pointed out in cross exam, having embellished her story significantly since her deposition 2 weeks before. She went from saying Terri and Michael were trying to have a baby, to saying Terri and she were talking about divorce and getting an apartment together.


2. Equivocating and deceptively alarmist statements that, e.g., "we know she had no "heart attack" (MI) - made while avoiding clarification that she did have cardiac arrest. (see discharge summary)

MI can be diagnosed by measuring cardiac enzymes, because they rise due to the destruction of heart muscle from the blockage that occurs. It can happen concurrent with, but is a whole different thing from, cardiac arrest - a beating/rhythm problem, which happens to be 50% more likely to occur if potassium is as low as a 3.5. Terri's was a 2.0.

Her records clearly stated that she was in Cardiac Arrest. Lately, presumably since the ruse is more difficult to conceal, at least Dr Hammesfahr has switched in some interviews to claiming that not even cardiac arrest occurred, since "her heart didn't stop" -
it didn't need to "stop".
See section from the Merck manual below for details.


3. Dr. Hammesfahr and Pat Anderson started the charade in 2002 about Terri's neck being "suspiciously rigid". But the fact is, her medical discharge summary says she had a stiff neck "and all other muscles in her body were stiff" - which is "normal" under those circumstances. It is a common condition of neck spasticity called opisthotonus - a contraction of the neck muscles, which goes along with her global spasticity and seizures caused by the anoxic brain injury. 2002transcripts.htm



As a classic example of this equivocation, read this section of a transcript which is typical of other interviews with this man and other Schindler family representatives:

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HAMMESFAHR: I'd like to go back to the potassium for a second, because he talked about the potassium and about the diet pills issue or some other drugs.

COLMES: Sure. Sure.

HAMMESFAHR: But the medical record clearly shows that there has never been a heart attack. Potassium causes damage by causing heart attacks, so we know the potassium is not an issue.
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Right now we have a woman who had a collapse with no known cause. No evidence of infection, heart attack, respiratory failure or anything. The only thing found in the emergency room is a damaged neck.

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Not surprising coming from someone who makes the false claim of being a Nobel Prize Nominee, or feigns surprise at being told he is not, even after he's been asked for years to cease and desist by the congressman who wrote the letter. (transcripts - Felos cross of Hammesfahr)

I would also add, that if Hammesfahr only ever saw a stiff neck like Terri's in one patient, and it so happened that that patient had been a victim of "strangulation" it only goes to more proof that he's lying about seeing and treating many PVS patients - he brought forward no proof, though it was so critical he do so.


4. The Bone scaM.

We continually hear about "all those broken bones...broken leg, broken pelvis, head injury, broken back..."

If you read the full, unedited deposition of the radiologist, and the finding of Greer, you see that
a) it was never hidden from the Schindlers, as so often claimed, and
b) there were not the broken bones that are being flaunted.


First, remember that a bone scan is very non-specific - it only shows where there is calcium uptake more or less.
Also remember that the radiologist said he calls any discontinuity of bony substance a "fracture". He had never laid eyes on Terri Schiavo, or knew what her condition was, or why the scan was ordered.

Here is what was described in the deposition:

-Possible fractures of 2 or more bilateral costovertebral junctures - where the ribs meet the vertebrae. (This could be a result of resuscitation efforts, or even severe seizures in a woman with bulimia-induced osteopenia)
- Compression fracture of 1st Lumbar vertebra (same as above, or her fall)
- Bruised femur just above her right knee.


The rest of the so-called "fractures" were deemed by her attending physicians, who specialize in such matters, to be joint problems common among bedridden patients undergoing therapy. Her doctors ordered the bone scan because of this, and treated the hot joints.

Her right knee was stiff within the first 8 days - look at the bottom of the discharge summary - they x-rayed it on 3-5-90, and it showed no bony problems.

She also had a neck x-ray right off, and it showed nothing but the spastic rigidity mentioned above.


Also note that since Dr Michael Baden's comments of Oct, 2003 touted so often, he has said that what he sees of her is consistent with cardiac arrest as a result of a bulimia induced electrolyte imbalance.



Footnote:

Heart attack: http://www.emedicine.com/EMERG/topic327.htm
Cardiac arrest: http://www.merck.com/mrkshared/mmanual/section16/chapter206/206a.jsp

as Merck describes:
Cardiac arrest:
Absent or inadequate ventricular contraction that immediately results in systemic circulatory failure.

In ventricular fibrillation (VF), loss of coordinated global ventricular myocardial contraction leads to immediate loss of effective cardiac output, resulting in circulatory arrest. (Thus no oxygen to her brain) Although acute MI is often the underlying precipitant of VF in cardiac arrest, about 50% of victims have no evidence of MI on follow-up ECG and enzyme studies.

VF can also result from worsening of chronic ventricular arrhythmias (primary VF), low-voltage electric shock (110 to 220 volts for 2 to 3 sec), electrolyte imbalances (especially K* and Ca), hemolysis from freshwater near drowning, profound hypothermia (< 28° C [< 82.4° F]), and excessive sympathetic stimulation of ventricular myocardium sensitized by hypoxemia and vasoactive drugs (eg, dopamine, theophylline, epinephrine). --http://www.merck.com/

*K is potassium Ca is calcium. Low K, below 3.5, is called Hypokalemia, or hypopotassemia.

[Diogenesis]

Dont want to rain on your defend the perp-post BUT
he likely injected her. He WAS caught twice doing it by at least TWO nurses.

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This is the 'tip of the iceberg' of what Terri and her family are up against.

Here’s where Terri Schiavo Insurance money went:

These funds, the result of a malpractice suit, were meant solely to provide for Terri Schiavo’s care and rehabilitation.
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Atty. Gwyneth Stanley - $10,668.05
Atty. Deborah Bushnell - $65,607.00
Atty. Steve Nilson - $7,404.95
Atty. Pacarek - $1,500.00
Atty. Richard Pearse (GAL) - $4,511.95
Atty. George Felos - $397,249.99
1st Union/South Trust Bank – $55,459.85
Michael Schiavo - $10,929.95
Total: $545,852.34

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Neglect and abuse complaints is that Michael Schiavo:

* Has not allowed therapy or rehabilitation since late 1992.
* Has prevented swallowing tests or swallowing therapy since 1993.
* Ordered caretakers not to clean Terri's teeth since 1995, resulting in removal of five teeth in April 2004.
* Placed Terri in hospice in 2000, despite the fact she is not terminally ill.
* Refuses to allow Terri to leave her room. She has not been outside since 2000.
* Ordered doctors not to treat Terri when she had a life threatening infection in 1993 and 1995.

HEALTHFUL DRINKS WITH WARM MEALS SINCE THE ORDER-TO-MURDER-AN-INVALID BY JUDGE GREER
Scumbag Torturer and Murderer-At-Will, The Imperial Pinellas County Judgenfuhrer Greer ..... 58
............................................................................................ Terri Shiavo 0
............................................................................................ Lee Malvo 51
...................................................................................... Scott Peterson 49