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***
OUTRAGEOUS!
Beth Gaddy should be SUED for failure to see that PROPER MEDICAL ATTENTION was given to her grand mother. And she should be charged with CRIMINAL INTENT.
SHE LIED ABOUT HAVING MEDICAL POWER OF ATTORNEY.
SHE TRIED TO HAVE HER GRAND MOTHER KILLED.
HOSPICE HOLDS RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS MATTER, and deserved to be investigated.
If you insist that this is hair splitting, then I am inclined to conclude my contribution to our dialoge.
"Whether dementia or some other cause, both indicated and appear to agree the condition is "permanent."
That's in the documents of both parties as you have seen. Nothing to split, it's right there, both parties.
What the legal interpretation of this may be another matter, but they agreed to the wording.
That's in the documents of both parties as you have seen. Nothing to split, it's right there, both parties.
The phrase you quote, "agree the condition is permanent" is not in either document. The quote above is YOUR interpretation, which you are entitled to.
What the legal interpretation of this may be another matter
It appears that my words are not making an accurate impression in your mind. Good day.
I did not accuse you of calling anyone a murderer and told you that I respect folks who work for a cause. Nor did I accuse you of being part of a circus. But those things happened nontheless. Please see my other response earlier to see a few of the examples.
I did not say that you had accused me. I simply clarified that there were those of us who participated in this effort that did so in a respectful, calm manner. Contrary to how we have been portrayed. .
And such blind "run with the first report" adherance to rush to judgment is intellectually offensive to me.
LOL, see that is what I mean. I don’t think I or the other freepers did “blindly” “rush” anywhere or into anything. You, on the other hand do. .
First, you asked me, I didn't ask you. I respected an earlier post from you telling me that I irritated you, but I refrained from responding. I left it at that. You asked me later to give a complete explanation and now you can say this?
Yes, I can say this. It is the conclusion I came to after reading your posting history on this subject. Not just to me and not just on this thread. I took that effort upon myself because of your insistence that all you have done is calmly cautioned and advised prudence and that your effort was resulting in your being misunderstood.
And this has nothing to do with a woman's life.
Again, it has everything to do with a woman’s life, the fact that you will not or cannot affirm that is a fundamental divergence in our understanding of this matter and the significance of the Freeper involvement.
It has everything to do with a little rational and intelligent behavior.
There. We or I , whichever you prefer, are not rational and are behaving in a less than intelligent manner. Are we not to respond to that as an insult?
There is nothing all of these threads accomplished other than to churn up a lot of animosity among Freepers.
Well, it seems that those who do not wish to be involved in these efforts have made a wise choice to boycott these threads. I have to wonder, once it was apparent that this was an action oriented thread why you persisted. That is well within your Jim Robinson given rights as a Freeper. However, you own a part of that animosity generating activity.
You don’t like dittoing. Well you certainly are not being dittoed on these threads.
As I have asked before, What would you have done if Ken had told you the truth about the Monday hearing and the fact that several doctors were then examining her, and that her disposition would be determined by them?
I would have said, it’s Wednesday, what the heck are they taking so long with?
What would you have done if you knew that the agreement was quite detailed with respect to the nourishment requirements for Mae and that the agreement was written by Ken's attorney?
I would have said, that’s great that you got that in there, Ken, are they following it, is it more than jello and ice chips? (I know, we could probably scrap all day on this point about the jello and ice chips,(but we wont) that will never be nourishment to me for a lady in that situation.)
You make the assumption like so many here that if we question something, we are pro-death, or don't care about life. Self righteousness does not always lead to good decision making.
And here is another quote from you on self-righteousness, “The self righteous cannot tolerate another view. They must resort to insults rather than face the possibility of having drawn erroneous conclusions.”( Illness splits woman's kin (this is about Mae Magouirk) Posted by MACVSOG68 to TigersEye On News/Activism 04/13/2005 11:29:42 AM EDT · 89 of 95)
This actually is a good stopping point. Did you for once consider that your position could be characterized as ‘self-righteous’?
While you're busy condemning me and others, think about that.
If you would like some sample posts, I would be happy to oblige.
LOL, see that is what I mean. I don’t think I or the other freepers did “blindly” “rush” anywhere or into anything. You, on the other hand do.
Again, would be pleased to provide sample posts.
And this has nothing to do with a woman's life.
Again, it has everything to do with a woman’s life, the fact that you will not or cannot affirm that is a fundamental divergence in our understanding of this matter and the significance of the Freeper involvement.
Had you used the entire quote, I think your response would have had to be quite different.
I have to wonder, once it was apparent that this was an action oriented thread why you persisted.
If you will look back, you will see that after your post to me telling me that I was irritating all you folks, I let it go and went on to other threads. You posted me and requested explanations of my POV. I did not post to you. So in response, I received a number of other posts, to which I responded. Is that unacceptable on your action threads?
I would have said, it’s Wednesday, what the heck are they taking so long with?
And would you then have gone to the judge requesting an emergency hearing, feeling that the doctors were not following the court order, or would you have done like Ken did, prepare a press release leaving out most relevant information, but leaving in just enough to get the activists all cranked up?
I would have said, that’s great that you got that in there, Ken, are they following it, is it more than jello and ice chips? (I know, we could probably scrap all day on this point about the jello and ice chips,(but we wont) that will never be nourishment to me for a lady in that situation.)
So if you were that concerned about Mae's lack of nourishment and you were Ken, would you not then have requested an emergency hearing to file a contempt motion rather than spend your time writing press releases and going on a whirlwind talk show circuit? Seems strange that Ken's concerns over all of these things have failed to lead him to the one and only province that could have brought resolution to his concerns, Judge Boyd's courtroom!
And while you ignored most of my post 2259 to you including my apologies to anyone whom I have offended and proffering my appreciation to the many who are actively working for reforms, I understand. I suppose it's best to paint the other side as completely evil, not just partially so.
This actually is a good stopping point. Did you for once consider that your position could be characterized as ‘self-righteous’?
I agree, it is a good stopping point, and I hope you remember that quote on the self righteous. Because it is those who recoil at the reasonable questions of others because they know they are on a holy crusade who are the true self righteous.
AmericanThinker.com has a new article today titled
THE PRO-DEATH MOVEMENT
[SNIP] The acceptance by society of the killing of unborn babies has had a tremendous impact on the deterioration of our view of the sanctity of life, and this lack of respect for life has not been limited to the unborn. In 1982, a baby known only as "Baby Doe" was born with Down Syndrome in Bloomington, Indiana. In addition to Down Syndrome, Baby Doe was born with a connection between the esophagus and windpipe, which prevented food from reaching the stomach.
A routine operation could have corrected the problem involving the esophagus, but because the baby had Down Syndrome, the parents refused to allow the operation, choosing instead to starve the baby to death, which the Supreme Court of Indiana ruled they had a right to do. Many families offered to adopt the baby; however, the parents refused, and the child died seven days after birth. [END SNIP]
Article here:http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4410
BREAKING DEVELOPMENT
Tomorrow morning, Attorney Jack Kirby of LaGrange, Ga., will file a motion before Judge Boyd, on behalf of A. B. McLeod, which will ask the Judge to order Beth Gaddy to allow her Grandmother's brother and sister (A. B. McLeod, Lonnie Ruth Mullinax) visitation rights at UAB Hospital. Stay tuned.
Does that mean that this morning some decision should've been reached? I haven't seen any updates regarding this motion Mae's brother filed, maybe it's been settled, maybe it's still ongoing. Does anyone know the staus of this?
It dawned on me today that we may not get any updates for awhile... or maybe ever, due to Beth Gaddy's demands and "terms" under which she will condescend to allow Mae's family to visit.
*Gag* me.
I read on blogsforterri, that Ken and the family refuse to agree to the gag order that Gaddy has proposed.
Ken said, "Although I originally desired to get some input and suggestions on whether or not to accept Beth's offer, I have since decided late tonight that to accept Beth's offer would hinder my ability to be an advocate for Mae's life, and so must reject any such restrictions or conditions."
You can read Ken's entire email here:
http://www.blogsforterri.com/
Under the heading: Email Message From Ken Mullinax on current situation Late Night Update
Another thing I'm wondering...
Is The Alabama Advocacy Center at the University of Alabama Law School still investigating Mae's case for elder abuse? Have they found anything yet?
CHECK THE DATES! The judge awareded Gaddy temporary emergency guardianship on FRIDAY-- UNTIL the hearing on Minday-- THIS IS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT! THe things you reference were introduced on Monday... then the family came to an agreement before the judge ruled- so Gaddy stayed on..
Sorry for the confusion--I did not explain that I was refering to FRIDAY.
It's looking like you have very good reason to worry, as sad as that is.
"Petition for guardianship by Gaddy, fax page number 13
"..Duration of incapacity: Permanent.
"Petition for guardianship by Ken folks, fax page 27
"..Duration of incapacity: Permanent.
That's what I see. What do you see?
Don't know anything yet. Maybe kenneth will update later tonight?
If she is permanently disabled in some way....so what? Apparently she can still verbalize the words "I'm hungry!"
Go to this website for the latest information on Mae's condition, note she was in no way comatose or in a persistand vegetative state, and also note that the Hospice attorney said that IF a feeding tube is put into her nose, she will not be able to STAY at the hospice...hmmmm.....wonder why? Terri had a feeding tube...for almost FIVE LONG YEARS inat the WOODSIDE Hospital euthanasia hellhouse.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43763
Research done on Mae and her la grange hospice uncovers a relationship with the Suncoast Hospice of Woodside...OH PUKE....this is all just sick.
You have mail
Hey Fred! What''s going on?
Hi judgemc! I don't know anything more about Miss Mae other than what we can all read on this thread and from the various links provided to worldnetdaily and straightupwsherri, have you the links saved or do you want me to post them for you?
*bump* Ken coming up on Hannity & Colmes. I think after the 9:20 commercial break.
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