Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
And thank YOU nicmarlo, and may God bless all of you.
If I hadn't spent the last year and a half fighting tooth and nail to save Terri, I wouldn't have had a clue what to do for Mae. I'd bet not too many others would either. By the time I heard about it and started making phone calls, so many Freepers had already called the granddaughter, her phone line was fried. This is the kind of action that saved Mae. Without Terri, most of us would still be running around today asking "What should we do?"
Terri's death was tragic, horrific, sinister, etc. Terri's death was a lot of things, but it was not in vain.
Everyone that posted, called, and found out what was going on, helped this lady. WorldNetDaily is on top of this story.
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43723
'Grandma' airlifted to medical center Receiving IV fluids, nourishment,' says nephew who credits WND, bloggers, 'Terri's friends'
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, according to her nephew, where "she is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help."
This morning, Magourik's nephew Ken Mullinax, who had been fighting to have his aunt removed from Hospice-LaGrange in LaGrange, Ga., where, he said, she had not been properly fed or hydrated, contacted WorldNetDaily with this phone message:
Because of your articles and all of the friends of Terri, my Aunt Mae Magouirk is now in the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center and is receiving food, fluids, cardiac care and neurological help. We are overjoyed.
Praise be the name of the Lord, praise be all of the friends of Terri Schindler [Schiavo]. We could never have mobilized public sentiment and pressure on these people in LaGrange, Ga. – at Hospice, the LaGrange, Ga., doctors or the probate judge – unless the friends of Terri and the wonderful media of WorldNetDaily.com had become involved. Thank you all.
Under the terms of an April 4 court order, Magouirk's medical treatment was to be decided by three cardiologists tasked with deciding what treatment would be best and where it should take place.
Pending that decision, Mullinax, 45, has contended that his aunt had been without substantial food or hydration for 10 days at the hospice.
ty, Sun. My greatest satisfaction, honestly, after Mae being delivered from harm first, of course, was that Focus on the Family contacted eeevil within hours of my e-mail to them. (I happened to send a very long e-mail fully of my research with url's regarding the pro-death agenda, just days before.) I have no doubt others must have told them about Mae, too.
Why is this so important to me? Because, I know they "get it" and they're not just talking and wringing their hands. They obviously are involved and are WILLING to listen.....to "nobody's." They're "on board." Yippeee!!!
You Wrote:
If I hadn't spent the last year and a half fighting tooth and nail to save Terri, I wouldn't have had a clue what to do for Mae. I'd bet not too many others would either. By the time I heard about it and started making phone calls, so many Freepers had already called the granddaughter, her phone line was fried. This is the kind of action that saved Mae. Without Terri, most of us would still be running around today asking "What should we do?"
Terri's death was tragic, horrific, sinister, etc. Terri's death was a lot of things, but it was not in vain.
My Reply: So true, so very true. And there are a lot of us who carry that, "been there done that," knowledge around with us so now we know what to do, how to do it, and we know how important it is to act quickly, once the basic fact checking on the report is done (Thanks to YOU, Smelvin and eeevil conservative for investigating early on Mae Magouirk's situation).
I hope the Schindler family will derive some satisfaction knowing that becasue of Terri a small army of us are ready to engage the enemy and we will WIN some battles. Eagels Up!
"NO this is not my first time on the forum. I have changed ISP providers and my name because some fool has been sending my child death threats using my old email."
You joined April 9 and your credibilty has just hit rock bottom with me.
Wow!! It shows how effective one person can be.
One person just could be the deciding factor.
I am afraid you are very wrong sir. but you are going to believe what you want to anyway.
Is "pro-euthanasia" more acceptable?
Yeah nic that was a good win for you. Right after you posted that motivated me to write to them as well. At least I think I did. I wrote out so many e-mails it is starting to blurrrr.
I remember your post after they called eeevil. I was proud of you.
Thanks for mentioning me, but I think my greatest contribution was the phone calls I made. By the time I made them, so many others had already called the granddaughter, her phone line was fried. I have to face the reality that compared to other Freepers, I didn't do much. But boy oh boy, man oh man, do I feel EUPHORIC over our collective success!
As an added bonus, I realized that Kenneth spoke up for Aunt Mae, and showed everybody what the frequency is.
Not me...I think they've gotten hundreds of e-mails regarding Terri. I suspect they got quite a few concerning grandma Mae. However, I also believe that because of my very lengthy e-mail days prior (about 3 pages long, complete with url's to cases regarding dehyrdration, the President's Commission of which Dr. Cranford was a co-author of two, who testified that Terri was PVS, links to his website, showing he, indeed is a co-author, links to the bioethics website where some of the documents are available for download, etc., and, of course, after what just happened to Terri, all of these things may have caused them to take the concern very seriously instead of being in disbelief or totally skeptical).
I'm glad they are that concerned.
BykrBayb,
I think you are mistaken. Unless there were other Action Mae Magouirk thread on FR, it was only after you, smelvin, and eeevil conservative reported back in ON THIS THREAD, that we organized.
Terri's Bloggers may have been making calls, but on this thread it was your work that put the Freepers into action. Not to say that other's weren't on it, but on FR you and smelvin and eeevil conservative were the 3 people, it was your work, you 3 reporting in, independently, on all the phone calls you made, that started it on FR.
Now I might be mistaken if there were other threads but I know on this one, it was you 3 and you 3 alone that got the rest of us the validation we needed before we took action. We want to help but we also want to know that the report is not a hoax. You 3 showed the rest of us that it wasn't a hoax.
YOU should feel EUPHORIC, we all do, but you 3, well gosh you know, you were out there in front early. Many many thanks. If it were not for you 3 doing the validation I know I would still be hanging back.
Indeed, I wonder if I'll soon have the subject matter for a 'sorta happy ending' 4th verse for A Bird in a Barren Cage.
Has anyone confirmed this? I haven't seen any proof that she was being denied food and water anywhere except quotes from Ken. The judges orders specificly said she was to be given food and water. In the article at this link the judge says Ken's claims are false and the CEO of the hospise states that "No patient at our hospice is denied food or water". http://www.11alive.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=61478
Very strange.
That is critical; kudos to you, bykrbayb, eeevil, and schmelvin!
Nice........... hope all those days without nourishment did minimal harm.
#1: Hospice is a place to go to die. It's stranger that a woman who was not comatose, not vegetative, not terminal was illegally placed there; #2, a nurse, according to Kenneth, told him that she was not being "substantially" nourished; #3 the granddaughter does not deny claiming, by anyone, her attorney or anyone representing her, that she said "Grandmama 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?"
supercat,
I really like this verse form your song about terri.
The more one looks into this sordid case,
The clearer the evil plot.
They're not trying to starve her because she's dying,
but rather because she's not.
It's clear Michael Schiavo, George Felos, and Judge Greer
Are fighting with all their might
Not because Terri won't speak up,
But rather because she might.
Hopefully you wont' write another verse right away. Give it some time. See how many more Mae Magouirk's there are. perhaps verse 4 it will write itself....
So, I thank you for your steady, even-tempered thought.
:-)
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