It's Happening Again (We've Got Another Schiavo, Starving In GA, No Brain-Damage)

Media Release | 4-6-05 | The Family of Mae Magouirk

[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***

[schmelvin]

Something in the story doesn't smell right. Ken appears to be a Democrat operative and an administrator for one of the cities. How come he went to the internet rather than the MSM?

From what I heard, Ken tried to get the MSM involved, but they ignored the story. Maybe, they didn't want to touch it because all during Terri's murder, they kept shoving in our faces the importance of having a living will. Then, less than a week or two goes by and we have a woman who's being denied nutrition in spite of her living will. A number of people here bombarded the MSM with information regarding Mae's plight, and we were totally snubbed.

I think Ken was very smart to run straight to blogsfor terri. They have their finger on the pulse of this sort of thing better than anyone, and they have a number of contacts and supporters. If anyone had the power to blow the lid off this, it would be blogsforterri and Ken was very smart to go to them.

Too bad he's a Dem and not a Republican, though. Because, then he would've known that FR should've also been at the top of his list of powerhouses he could run to for help. (BTW, I don't think Ken cared one bit about politics at this point. I think he was desperate to save his aunt and would've gratefully accepted help from any source that was willing and able to lend a hand.)

[jer33 3]

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[maine-iac7]

YES! THANK you - I listened - still trying to thaw out! I'm of an age where, if they got their hands on me and I was unconscious, I'd probably never wake up!

I hope there is big litigation on this - I think the nephew aught to see to it - it's the only way these people will stop this - if they get hit and punished. Word will start to spread and that's how we get the foot in the door to get this to the public and stopped. The public is blind, deaf and dumb becasue they simply cannot beleive such evil could exist HERE in the US. And I'm sure, in the early 30's, neither did the German people - until it was too late.

Did I send you this new link yet? We all need to save this in our "cause/alert file" - It's a reprinted article from a 1949 edition of the New England Medical Journal - on this news/Activism thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1380989/posts?page=1

and here

http://www.haciendapub.com/article28.html

Chilling - we have a lot of work to do!

[SoVaDPJ]

"(BTW, I don't think Ken cared one bit about politics at this point. I think he was desperate to save his aunt and would've gratefully accepted help from any source that was willing and able to lend a hand.)"

True, that. If he had waited for Jesse Jackson and the Dems to help him, he'd be posting the funeral info now. Seems to me that the Left wants you to help them, but when it's time to give back, they're somewhere else--this I know because I used to be one.

Meanwhile, does anyone know how Ken's mother is doing?

[Fred Nerks]

http://www.lutheransforlife.org/Life%20Issue%20Info/End-of-Life/ventilators_-_feeding_tubes.htm (snip)


When Minnesota policeman Sgt. David Mack was shot in the line of duty in 1979, Dr. Ronald Cranford diagnosed his patient as being in a "persistent vegetative state," never to regain "cognitive, sapient functioning." Dr. Cranford was ready to end his patient's life, but 20 months after the shooting, Sgt. Mack regained consciousness and nearly all of his mental ability.



Conley Holbrook was in a coma for eight years. On February 25, 1991 he woke up. Were eight years missing from his life? Apparently not because 26-year old Conley was able to call each of his relatives by name, including the small children who were born while he was unconscious. He knew what was happening around him, he just couldn't communicate.

[schmelvin]

Thank you. Bookmarked.

I have been and will continue to research the euthanasia movement in great depth. I want to know everything. I want to know the identities of all the major and minor players in the movement. I want to know exactly what laws they've had enacted in EVERY single US state, and I want to know what new laws they're currently lobbying for. They've operated under the cover of darkness for far too long. Let's see how well they do with a spotlight shining in their faces.

In order to fight the enemy, one must know the enemy: who he is and how he operates. Far too many people aren't even aware that this enemy even exists. Before the Terri Schiavo fight, I didn't know that the euthanasia movement was as large, influential, and as organized as it is, and I am usually pretty well informed.

[Fred Nerks]

This is what you are up against. Dr Cranford, Terri's 'doctor' who testified she was PVS.

http://www.bioethics.umn.edu/faculty/cranford_r.shtml (snip)

Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School; Associate Physician, Department of Neurology, Hennepin County Medical Center

E-Mail: cranf001@umn.edu

Download CV (dpf)


Ronald Cranford, MD, a neurologist and medical ethicist, is Assistant Chief in Neurology at the Hennepin County Medical Center (HCMC), Minneapolis, Minnesota; Professor of Neurology, University of Minnesota Medical School; and Faculty Associate, Center for Bioethics, University of Minnesota. He was Director of the Neurological Intensive Care Unit at the Hennepin County Medical Center from 1971 to 1991.

Dr. Cranford has specialized in the field of clinical ethics since the early 1970s. During this time, he served as a consultant to several national commissions on right-to-die issues. These included the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research, primarily the reports on "Defining Death" and "Deciding to Forego Life-Sustaining Treatment" and the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws on the Uniform Determination of Death Act and the Uniform Rights of the Terminally Ill Act. He was a member of the panel that formulated the Hastings Center's "Guidelines on Termination of Treatment and the Care of the Dying" and the project consultant to the National Center of State Courts' project on "Guidelines for State Court Decision Making in Authorizing or Withholding Life-Sustaining Medical Treatment." Recently, he was co-chairman of the Multisociety Task Force on Medical Aspects of the Persistent Vegetative State.

[eeevil conservative]

Have ya'll seen the point by point statement from Kenneth yet?

I have no idea how to make or start a thred- but if anyone else does and wants to-- it might be a good idea...

[Fred Nerks]

I don't know how to either...BUT THAT'S A GREAT IDEA!

[eeevil conservative]

LOL!!

Well-- then we are both brilliant with ideas, but lack implementation??

LOL!!

[Fred Nerks]

Who are you going to call? LOL! Ping everyone who contributed maybe...someone's gotta do it! Post a FReeper SOS on this thread with the link?

[nicmarlo]

Very good! Thanks for your ping. Great blogging!!!

[eeevil conservative]

I don't even know how to PING!

I am telling you--

I AM A TECH IDIOT!!

LOL!

[eeevil conservative]

Thanks so much-- You have no idea how much that means to me-- NO IDEA!

[Fred Nerks]

I'll do it!

[nicmarlo]

You've got a heart of gold, eeevil. : ) God bless you.

[eeevil conservative]

COOL!!

Thanks!!!

[eeevil conservative]

Heart of gold? Me? LOL!!

I am an eeeeevil conservative!

In all honesty-- thank you. All of you here really fill my heart...

[ExPatInFrance]

Hey before I go to bed, where might we find the latest communication from Kenneth.

I have no idea how I saw it, but on FR there was a page, and did you know that this topic had over 21,000 views? I think tha is pretty much.

[Fred Nerks]

http://straightupwsherri.blogspot.com/

More Info on the Story of Miss Mae
Ken Mullinax - tells his story.

WOULD A FREEPER WHO KNOWS HOW TO POST PLEASE START A THREAD - VERY IMPORTANT IMO.