Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
For Immediate release! To: All media, and supporters of life. From: The Family of Mae Magouirk Date: April 6, 2005 Contact: Kenneth Mullinax - Mockingbird@compuhelp.net
Shiavo case revisited in Georgia
Mae Magouirk…not comatose …not vegetative …not terminal
Why is Hospice LaGrange, Ga. withholding nourishment?
(LaGrange, Georgia) Mae Magouirk is being withheld nourishment and fluids and the provisions of her Living Will are not being honored at the Hospice-LaGrange, (1510 Vernon Street, LaGrange “Troup County” Georgia, 706-845-3905) a subsidiary of the LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange Georgia. Her family is desperately seeking to save her life before she dies of malnourishment and dehydration.
Mae Magouirk IS NOT comatose and she IS NOT vegetative. She is not terminal!
Despite these facts the Hospice and Beth Gaddy, a school teacher at LaGrange’s Calloway Middle School and granddaughter of Mae Magouirk have been denying her proactive nourishment or fluids (via a nose administered feeding tube or fluids via an IV) since March 28 without prior legal consent; against the wishes of her Living Will and against the wishes of Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin. Mae Magouirk’s next of kin are: Mr. A. B. McLeod (Her Brother) and Mrs. Lonnie Ruth Mullinax (Her sister) both of nearby Anniston, Alabama.
Under Georgia law, unless a medical durable power of attorney is in place, your closest living next of kin are stipulated to make all medical decisions. When Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin lodged a complaint with Hospice LaGrange’s in-house attorney Carol Todd last Thursday, March 31, Ms. Todd checked Mae Magouirk’s case file and upon examination of both documents discovered that Beth Gaddy DID NOT have the durable medical power of attorney for Mae Magouirk and upon closer examination of Mae Magouirk’s Living Will ascertained that fluids and nourishment were ONLY TO BE WITHHELD if she was either comatose or vegetative. SHE IS IN NEITHER STATE!!!
Nor is Mae Magouirk terminally ill. Her local LaGrange, Ga. cardiologist, Dr. James Brennan and Dr. Raed Aqel, a highly acclaimed interventional cardiologist at the nationally renowned University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center have determined that Mae Magouirk’s aortic dissection is contained and not presently life threatening.
Two weeks ago, Mae Magouirk’s aorta had a dissection and she was hospitalized in the LaGrange Hospital in LaGrange, Ga. Her aortic problem was at first determined to be severe and she was admitted in the intensive care Unit. Her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, a teacher at the Calloway Middle School in LaGrange, stated that she held Mae Magouirk’s medical power of attorney and thus invoked said powers against the wishes of Mae Magouirk’s closest living next of kin by having her moved to Hospice-LaGrange. While at Hospice-LaGrange, Beth Gaddy stated that her wishes were for no nourishment for Mae Magouirk via a feeding tube or fluids via an IV. Before hospitalization Mae was lucid and never had been diagnosed with dementia as was testified to in Probate Court on Monday, April 4, by a local MD.
Page Two Mae Magouirk is being starved to death!
Upon learning from Hospice-LaGrange that Mae Magouirk was being denied nourishment and fluids and upon being told by Carol Todd (Hospice LaGrange’s in-house legal consul) that Beth Gaddy DID NOT HAVE THE PROPER LEGAL AUTHORITY to deny said nourishment AND that the denial of nourishment went against Mae Magouirk’s Living Will, Mae’s family (Mullinax/McLeod) ordered the immediate beginning of such nourishment/fluids for Mae to Hospice via Carol Todd.
First Contact with Hospice on Thursday, March 31 Carol Todd told Mrs. Lonnie Ruth Mullinax (Mae Magouirk’s sister) and Kenneth Mullinax (Mae Magouirk’s nephew) via phone on Thursday, March 31 that Georgia Law stipulated that Mrs. Mullinax and her brother A. B. McLeod (Mae Magouirk’s brother) were entitled to make any and all decisions for Mae Magouirk. Mrs. Mullinax immediately told Carol Todd to insert fluids via an IV and insert a feeding tube, via her nose. Carol Todd had the IV fluids started that evening but told the family that they would have to come to Hospice LaGrange to sign papers to have the feeding tube inserted and because of such, she believed that Mae Magouirk would no longer be a candidate for Hospice LaGrange. She was then told that Mae Magouirk’s family concurred and the ONLY REASON Mae was at Hospice was because the LaGrange Hospital had failed to exercise due diligence in closely examining the power of attorney which Beth Gaddy said she had, as well as executing the provisions of Mae’s Living Will to her preordained stipulations. Gaddy only had a financial power of attorney and did not have a medical power of attorney and Mae Magouirk’s Living Will provided that a feeding tube and fluids SHOULD ONLY BE DISSCONTINUED IF Mae was comatose or in a vegetative state. She was and is in neither state.
Attempt to rescue Mae on Friday denied by Probate Judge Donald Boyd On Friday, April 1, when A. B. McLeod (brother) and Kenneth Mullinax (nephew) showed up to meet with Carol Todd and to arrange emergency air transport of Mae Magouirk to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center (One of the top cardiovascular centers in the USA) Hospice LaGrange stalled them while Beth Gaddy went before Troup County Georgia (LaGrange, Ga.) Probate Judge Donald W. Boyd (who DOES NOT hold a law degree) who granted Beth Gaddy emergency guardianship of Mae Magouirk, giving Beth Gaddy full and absolute authority. Thus, they COULD NOT MOVE HER FOR PROACTIVE MEDICAL CARE Friday because Beth Gaddy had Hospice stop them and then she had Mae’s IV fluid tube pulled out. Beth Gaddy has repeatedly told Mr. McLeod, Mrs. Mullinax and Kenneth Mullinax that she feels they all should let Mae not eat and thus cause her to die because, and we quote Beth Gaddy: “Grandmamma is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus. She has glaucoma, and now this heart problem and who would want to live with disabilities like these?”
As stipulated under Georgia Law, a hearing for an Emergency Guardianship, must be held within 3 days of its request and Mae Magouirk’s hearing was held on this past Monday, April 4, before Troup County Georgia Probate Judge Donald Boyd who favors granting Beth Gaddy permanent guardianship and thus will seal Mae Magouirk’s fate of allowing Beth Gaddy to starve her to death against the wishes of her Living Will and in full knowledge that Mae Magouirk is not terminal, not in a coma and is not in a vegetative state and that medical care at UAB Medical Center is awaiting her. Shiavo revisited!
Mae’s present state and vital signs Mae’s blood pressure is good, averaging 140/82 with a pulse rate of 88. However, since admission to Hospice she has not been lucid but who would be since nourishment and fluids have been denied since March 28, 2005. Also adding to her confusion is that she is off her regular medicines and is on a dose of Adavan and Morphine. Without food or water her electrolytes and body chemistry is not within its proper parameters. If her condition is not given major public attention soon, she will die, not by divine cause but by the omission of assistance by man. WE MUST GET Mae moved to UAB Medical ASAP
Resources: Probate Judge Donald Boyd…Court CASE NUMBER: Estate 138-05 Attorney for saving Mae’s life: Jack Kirby, Kirby & Roberts***
OMG that was about the best slam post I have ever seen written.
You were Rightous!!!!!!
And for what it is worth my son in in the Peace Corps right now in Africa.
You Wrote:
If you want to gripe about Tom Delay and the war in Iraq, this is not the thread for it, nor the forum for it. We have been busy fighting a battle in another war here, in case you hadn't noticed.
My Reply: YES!!!! That is why I really tried nicely to ask people to stick to the topic, Save Mae Magouirk, as an Action Thread. And for the most part people DID do that.
I am glad you saved your rant until the crisis is over.
Now that Mae is being fed, hey I LOVE what you wrote. You said it very very well.
thanks for the ping, great news indeed. That's all we ever wanted for Terri wasn't it? Her 'husband' had a million dollars to spend on medical care, therapy and hospital/nursing home care but where did the money go? To legal fees! And now we will never know what a million dollars might have achieved for Terri. I prayed to see an ambulance arrive and take Terri out of that hospice. It didn't arrive. And for the rest of our lives we will live with the knowledge we allowed Terri to be deprived of not only nourishment, but even sunlight through the window in her room.
These automotons like Senator Jim King and this granddaughter that invoke the name of Jesus to justify cld blooded murder, they are everywhere. Jim King made a similar comment about it being time for Terri to go to heaven. Sickening! He's going to fight any changes to our Florida laws. He wants more people to be killed this way.
Best news I've heard in days-Hooraay!
thanks for the ping. In Loving Memory of Terri.
King is from Pinellas, isn't he?
If there's a big-money murder'letting pople die' racket going on there, do you really think King would want anything to mess that up?
Please let us know what we should do next.
Crime after crime after crime. This is why Bill Frist and Pres. Bush don't want to impeach Greer or Whittemore because SO MANY PEOPLE WOULD GO TO JAIL. I'm sticking with Tom Delay's position and I hope that other members of the Congress join him.
We are not going away while these Judges in Pinellas get $137K per year and the same upon retirement and THEY ARE HASTENERS OF DEATH for attorneys who donated to their campaigns.
I didn't vote for this!!!
Jim King needs a Jacksonville freep. Where are all the Jax freepers?
Impeach George Greer. Impeach Judge Whittemore. DEMAND A SPECIAL PROSECUTOR BY THE U.S. CONGRESS.
Good for Mae. Terri still needs justice. Only feds with courage can get justice for Terri. I'm with them.
Fred, Thanks for your reflections.
Thinking of Terri at this moment is bitter sweet.
Sweet because it really was because of that sweet Terri that I helped. Her innocence and sweetness with dimished abilities will always be with me. As will her vunorability.
Bitter because so many people for so long did so much and yet we did not win Terri's freedom, her life.
I am sure you did not mean "we" allowed Terri to be deprived of not only nourishment... because it wasn't Terri's freepers who did that. It was others, and we couldn't change it. We didn't "allow" it we just couldn't stop it.
I hope Mae is getting stronger now that she has nourishment. I also hope that the message is getting out and that people are really thinking, especially te medical professionals who councel families in distress, really thinking hard about Ordinary Care and what it is.
You wrote:
Please let us know what we should do next.
Mr Reply:
Why I thought that was obvious, have a beer or a glass of wine and perhaps a nice long bath. :) :) :)
Also why Illinois Republicans stood behind George Ryan in 1998. Where are the Illinois Republicans now?
I wish Republicans would realize that even if a third of the party is corrupt, the corruption wouldn't stick to the other 2/3 if they prosecuted it. The loss of even 1/3 of the party members would be offset by the fact that the public could see that the survivors put integrity over party. By contrast, if the honest party members do nothing about the crooks, they'll cease being honest party members and everyone will see that they put party over integrity.
Jim King is district8, mostly Duval Cty, Jacksonville----home of the Jaguars NFL team.
Surprisingly enough this town almost always goes conservative, there are several large churches here and tons of smaller ones.
King strutted around the Sen like a peacock the day they were debating the bill which would have helped Terri. He's full of himself. Some of the media here gave to his campaign so they can't be relied on to say a thing against him.
That's fine, I'm one determined blonde. They say hell hath no fury like a woman spurned.
Well I am PO'd and if I don't die trying, I'll do my dang best to let everyone here know what a liar and traitor he is!
You, too, Pat, need an Attaboy for your delegation and ops.
Well done. Very well done.
CB
nic,
I could not spell Phil Doroo, can you ping him please I think it is post 1501, but you'll have to check.
I would want him to know and join the party.
PHIL..................GOOD NEWS!!!!!
'Grandma' airlifted
to medical center
'Receiving IV fluids, nourishment,' says nephew who credits WND, bloggers, 'Terri's friends'
Posted: April 9, 2005
6:22 p.m. Eastern
By David Kupelian
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Mae Magouirk, the 81-year-old Georgia widow over whose medical care a family tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo case has been raging, has been transported from the hospice in LaGrange, Ga., to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, where, according to her nephew, "she is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help."
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43723
Yes - guess you did touch a nerve - sorry - should not have jumped on you so strongly.
I'm just tired of the constant arguing over the Terri case and anything to do with euthanasia.
So many refuse to see how these cases are very critical to the future America.
And in trying to explain, we have to also explain why we have a basic belief in the sanctity of life and want that to be continued. Tired of all the same old complaints as to why Terri is not worth our attention, why we MUST have men determining when we die, etc. etc. etc.
So many battles, so little time, and so many maneuvering to change laws so that they have control over when all of us die. V e r y D e p r e s s i n g. Think I might kill myself.
"Why I thought that was obvious, have a beer or a glass of wine and perhaps a nice long bath. :) :) :)"
Sounds good. :)
The reason I asked is because the last line said it's not over yet.
Perhaps "eeevil" could be president of the U.S.A., and you could be vice-president, and you could select Schiminie, Bykr Bob, and many, many others to be in the cabinet, and as for me, I'll be happy to be a behind the scenes plain ole typist. :)
After the long hard and loosing battle for Terri - we may just have won this one!
your suggestion of B&B (beer & bath) sounds just right!
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