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***
Catch this quote:
" This is a question families should feel free to answer for themselves -- without fearing intrusion from outsiders. And when you really think about it, the idea of placing a feeding tube in a patient with advanced Alzheimer's disease makes no sense at all, medically or morally. It borders on barbaric and cruel. "
my comment-----> { How is this CRUEL if the person is HUNGRY???? Wonder what Nancy REAGAN would have to saabout this POS's creepy, cold attitude toward the elderly! the jerk who LAID the foundation for Terri SCHINDLER to be MURDERED goes on in the article you linked to with this crap....read on folks....meet the euthanasists of our nation UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL..YOU WILL NOTICE they ALL MENTION MONEY or the COST of KEEPING someone comfortable and ALIVE, they will mention the POOR FAMILY members who must offer care, and they will BEMOAN the fact that such patients DO NOT DESERVE TO LIVE as they have no 'QUALITY OF LIFE' according to the euthanasists marvelous ability to read minds!!! OH YEAH...........READ ON....}
" It's just the kind of dehumanizing medical intervention that the public finds
so distasteful. It's the sort of practice that undermines confidence that doctors have the best interests of patients and families at heart. "
AD THIS IS THE SO CALLED DOCTOR THAT FELOS AND MICHAEL SCHIAVO USED TO DIAGNOSIS TO BREAK THE TIE BETWEEN MEDICAL DOCTORS>>>AND KILL TERRI!
ALL She is Recieving Food now!
according Glenn Beck
On Saturday, April 9th we received information form Kenneth that his aunt had been taken out of the hospice in LaGrange, GA and transported to UAB Hospital in Alabama were she was once again receiving food and water.
Tune into the program on Monday for more details about this story and a follow-up interview with Kenneth Mullinax.
http://www.glennbeck.com/news/04102005.shtml
Monday, April 11, 2005
10:27 a.m. EST
http://straightupwsherri.blogspot.com/
Beth Gaddy Has Miss Mae's Family ESCORTED OUT OF HER ROOM BY GUARDS!
Per Kenneth Mullinax on Glenn Beck:
Miss Mae's family had been REFUSED visitation with Miss Mae. Beth Gaddy, exercising as Miss Mae's guardian, has denied the family the right to visit with her and see her at all!
The family was escorted out by security guards and are now guarding Miss Mae's room.
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Sounds like Sherri is very busy right now so I thought I'd post this alert here.
Easy. If he knew that the judicial process was in place after Monday, and that he had agreed to the process, then a few choice remarks to WND and some pro-life blogs several days later to get them all worked up might be seen as serving the interests of the left by showing those who fell for the original story as "wing-nuts". But regardless of his motives, (and I don't know what they were), he certainly failed to correct the record, and simply added fuel to the flames.
The Judge Boyd is on the Glenn beck insider right now hes saying there was no feeding tube and that they just cut food off to her!
WHAT???? THEY JUST CUT HER FOOD OFF AGAIN??
no but thats what had happened. From what I understand is that shes being feed now but they were not feeding her! She never had a feeding tube!
The judge said that Kenneth called and lied to him and told him that he was a former congressman. And Kenneth told this to several other people.
got 'em saved in my "hospice" file..
Do we have a Hospice" watch group? My feeling is that this is the 'attack" point - if we approach this from a religious angle - (which it is, but won't get as many converts as sticking with the "this can happen to you" angle - and the fact that the Hospices have become the deathCrats avenue of practicing their trade. (I think also that there are many nurses working in Hospice - like the ones that tried to help Terri - that are horrified at what they see going on - and some will come forward with case histories.This is not the reason they became nurses.)
Everyone, if we're lucky, is going to get old and we all think about the day when it's time to pass over. So everyone has a "dog in this fight."
We need to keep these 3 cases that have already been widely publicized - Terri, Wendland and Mae (and gives us plenty of documentation from Florida, Calif and GA).
We need to get some stories from families on other cases - I'm sure there are hundreds+ - and alert the sleeping public to the very real danger coming their way.
Maybe (?) a good place to start would be with our pastors - as they have the duty of visiting the sick and dying - and they would be good avenue for a start. (I doubt many of them agree to "the solution" being meted out to the ill.)
Father Pavone, the national director of the pro-life group Priests for Life , has a network with speakers all over the world, and a mission from the POPE. (Father's web site:
http://www.priestsforlife.org/
(I am not Catholic, but as we have seen, this fight crosses all barriers of religion, politics and race. It is OUR fight - an "Everyone of US" fight.)
As we get names and cases, we can branch out with families testimonies so that our movement doesn't get labeled as one of 'religious fanatics" which the deathCrats would do. That is their modus operandi, ala Communist operational points - denigrate and slander and thereby dilute.
Do we have a "Terri is Us" or some such drive separate from the church angle?
Also, a chart connecting the dots - for ex: Dr Death - ah, Cranford - of his involvement in the Wendland case in Calif and with Terri - and his associations and own words would get a lot of people educated...we would h ave to be VERY sure we put down only the facts - for they'll come out swinging, probably with Felos leading the pack (he can be diluted quickly by simply quoting from his own writings)...- but the truth is chilling and damning enough!
I heard a recording of Ken's interview, and in that he said he was a congressional aide or some such. It'd be real bizzare if he told a judge that he was a former US Congressman.
The judge is saying that she should have been being feed all along. To me this whole things sounds like a hoax. I think Ken is lieing and is just made because he doesnt have rights to her. If hes lieing about this he should be investigated for fraud.
Thats what the judge said! The judge said that he said Ken told him he was a former congressman. I heard him on Fri say he was an Congressional aide to Glenn.
So what you're saying is YOU made up the words. He didn't say it. ;-)
I heard this with my own ears just now on the Glenn beck insider the Judge was talking to Glenn and told him that Kenneth Called him and told him the he was a FORMER CONGRESSMAN not an AIDE
To: All
Per Kenneth Mullinax on Glenn Beck: Miss Mae's family had been REFUSED visitation with Miss Mae. Beth Gaddy in exercising as Miss Mae's guardian has denied the family the right to visit with her and see her at all! The family was escorted out by security guards and are now guarding Miss Mae's room. THIS MUST STOP! ACTION:
Alert media of these events
Call Judge Boyd (706) 883-1690, and ask him NICELY to reverse the decision to allow Beth Gaddy to remain as Mae's guardian. Ask him to DO THE RIGHT THING!
We need someone willing to research GA law to see if this is permissible.
THANKS FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK!
141 posted on 04/11/2005 10:44:47 AM EDT by eeevil conservative (Don't Change Minds, Change Lives! Sherri Reese)
This story is soo messed up right now. All I know it seems the judge is not to blame for this. And it sounds like something isnt right about kenneth. We will have to wait and see.
And from what I was gathering from what the Judge was saying on Glenn Beck the Family Agreed to make Beth the Granddaughter the guardian.
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