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***
Thanks FN.
"We will be up against some very strong opposition," you are so right - powerful ones...they have been organized, networked and dedicated to this for years. But theirs is a dark cause and darkness cannot exist where there is light.
We are starting to shine the light of publicity on them - we have a network now (FR/Internet) that gives us the ability to alert/work and shine the light on this nightmare. WE can do it. It's our job to do it. We do this for His children...
What you did was very helpful, Believer in Truth.
No one person on this thread, no matter how much of a fuss he or she kicked up, could've accomplished this alone. It's when we all band together, and when many individuals contribute in whatever way they can, that we are able to get things done.
Some people pray, some people email, some do leg work, and some make phone calls... and TOGETHER we change the world!
Every single person here made a difference. What you did made a difference, even it doesn't immediately seem that way to you. God will bless you for those emails you sent, whether you receive a response from the parties you sent them to or not. Maybe, you will still receive a response, but much later than you expected, because the seed you planted with those emails may take time to grow. A lot of slumbering people require more than one nudge to wake up. You have given those churches that first nudge. God bless you.
To EVERYONE:
Thank you! Thank you, one and all! To everyone who said a prayer, sent an email, made a phone call, or even bumped this thread: Thank you! You played a part in saving a precious life!
May God Bless You All.
Why? Have I done something wrong? Have I asked inappropriate questions? Have I even been rude to anyone? No, I have not. So what have I done other than disagree with you that has got your panties all in a bunch?
What have you done right? What did you do to further the fight for Mae. You have been nothing but confrontational and disruptive while we were concerned and busy with Mae's plight -
Your constant ME-ME-ME posts are an irritation and adds nothing towards what we were doing here.
go play somewhere else
Exactly. All of the above. And we honor her struggle by never forgetting and staying the course. There are many more Terri's and Mae's out there -
One starfish at a time!
We can only help those that we know about and will let us--
other than that- we will lobby and work to be sure that the laws written to PROTECT the WARDS are made stronger-- and blow the whistle each time we know that the WARDS are NOT being protected.
ANSWER__
ALL WE CAN!
now go pee on someone else's parade.
NO I wasn't. If you had been paying attention I was giving you the arguments from the otherside. And you were researching to counter them, and in all probability passing the information on to those who could use it. How is that nothing? How is that me-me-me?
I am not peeing on your parade. I am steering you in a direction.
LOL!!
You really do think much of yourself don't you!
LOL!!!
Oh-- thank you so much for all your "steering"
I would have just been as lost as ALICE in Wonderland without all your help!
MY OH MY!!
Where would ANY of us have been without your holy help!!
YOU HAVE HELPED A LOT TODAY!!
YOU HAVE CERTAINLY MADE ME LAUGH!!
Amen, maine-iac7!
We don't have to scurry like cockroaches for a dark place to hide. We are fighting a GOOD fight. We have advantages our enemy doesn't have, because we've got nothing to be ashamed of and nothing to hide.
And, most importantly, we have God on our side, so we have already won. We won before this earth was even created, because God is on our side.
This victory is TERRI'S! NO ONE ELSES!!!
Thanks for the link!!
This brings tears to my eyes. Bless all of you who sped into action - you served as her angels the last few days.
May God bless all of you.
I read back in this thread a long way to see your responses and I thought I knew where you were coming from.
I am sorry if it seemed I was focusing on you. I did do that but it was just to find a contrary point of view so I could post my long winded essay, LOL! I am kidding, my post was from the heart.
Also, I am not calling you a eugenics follower. I know I implied it but by that I mean the current judicial decisions are setting up a "eugenics" like future. I am thinking in the abstract. I could be wrong, but I doubt it.
I still stand by my original post though.
Arioch7 out.
I got a promotion ALREADY!
LOL!!!
: )
We all ESPECIALLY need a sense of humor. :)
YOU, My dear are
PRICELESS!!
THANK YOU!!
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