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***
If it were me and someone were trying to kill me because I was an inconvenience in their life, I would hope that someone would take it public and come to my defense, especially if I were not able to express my wishes myself. Just as babies need someone to defend them against abortions from those that should love them the most, so too it seems handicapped adults need protecting, again, from those that SHOULD love them the most.
All in all it does sound like you have made up your mind, even if you don't think you have,
I don't know... I had a hard time following exactly what the situation here with Mae is... and based on my lack of information about it, I wouldn't dare say. I am pretty slow to take internet information and run with it. My main 'agenda' really is that I don't think the public should be involved in these decisions. At some point we have to trust that those near us, and Godforbid, any judge asked to hear our case, will be fair and just.
There were differing opinions from various doctors as to if she were vegetative or not. Therefore it can't be confirmed that she was.
thanks for the ping, strongly recommend everyone go to:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1371538/posts
by mercyme. Excellent research throughout thread.
Do you think the courts should accept all hearsay now, based on the Schiavo case as a precedence?
If there is a chance of saving 'me', the me that knows she is alive and has capacity to both feel and give love and life... Then by all means, I want them to pull out the stops to save me. That's what love and gallantry and devotion are all about.
But if I will never get better, if my condition will not only consume me but the lives of everyone around me and all that they've worked for, I'd surely hate to see that happen. Money is often used as just a callous matter where life is concerned. But as long as medicine and care are things that take time and money, it will be an important part of decision. To risk our life and the assets of our whole family for a cure is gallant. To have it all consumed in the care of a permanently vegetative body that used to be me.... is just sad.
But that point should not be reached as long as we have someone willing to care for us (assuming no living will to the contrary). The death cult sides with anyone saying "death" even if there are others that say "life - and we will be the caregivers."
If you don't think the public should be involved, then perhaps you are in the wrong thread and commenting on something you didn't mean to comment on? Is that possible?
Say 'death cult' to me and you end the conversation.
Point taken, I'm on the thread, but I am also mostly just talking about myself - and a bit about Terri.
Sometimes I wake up on threads and don't know how I got here ;~D
Now we don't really "know" if Terri was vegatative do we?
We have one Judge who is not a doctor who made a "legal" decision, not a medical one that Terri was in a Persistent Vegatative State. The Judge ruled it so after 3 doctors examined her. 1 doctor said now way and she can be helped. 1 doctor is totally discredited because he is a "Death Doctor" and is accurately, the quote IS accurate, as saying, "persons in Vegatatve States do not have any rights, they are non persons" He jsut goes aroudn the country, this is his main job, testifying that people are PVS. Then there is a 3rd doctor who said Yes Terri IS PVS.
Fast forward. AFTER the Legal decision in 2002 a Brand New Medical diagnosis was created. It is called Minimully Conscious. Judge Greer, would not permit a re-evaluation of Terri, even with the full knowledge that the art of medicine progressed since he ruled. A fair Judge would have ordered a re-exam because of new medical diagnosis.
33 Health care providers provided depositions that were rpesented to the Judge, he refused to consider any of them. I didn't read them all, but one that carried a whole lot of weight with me was this one Read this guys credentials-
March 3, 2005
Lawrence Huntoon M.D. Neurologist clinical office Derby new York
Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons
I have viewed the short video clips on the Terri Schiavo website. Based on those short clips there appears to be evidence that Ms. Schiavo responds to her mother and is able to distinguish her mother form other persons who interact with her. There is also evidence of sustained visual pursuit, which is the clip where she is following the balloon. These behaviors indicate awareness of the environment, and this type of behavior distinguishes minimally conscious state (MCS) from persistent vegetative state (PVS)
The definition and diagnosis criteria for minimally conscious state were published in “Neurology” in February 2002.
Food and water should be offered to patients in the ordinary way in the case where artificial nutrition and hydration are being terminated. Providing food and water in the natural way, by mouth, constitutes “ordinary care” not “treatment.” Ordinary, comfort care should always be provided irrespective of instructions regarding “limitation of treatment”
I would ask you to go read all the Medical Affidavits (I have read most of them) and then come back and un-equivacally state that Terri was brain dead. See there were a heck of a lot of freepers, myself included that actually did the research, which is why we were all so incensed. If you did not do the research the Main stream media didn't bother to inform you of the facts. The sad part is the public really had to do their own work to find the truth becasue it was not in the MSM (Main Stream Media).
Do you jsut throw statments out to get a reaction?
1) Don't try to claim that testimony was hearsay unless you understand the definition of the word.
2) Mrs. Schiavo was not a criminal, and we are to respect her right to decide her own end care unless you can prove that right should have been denied.
AMEN! Is there one specific family? Are there several meeting with whoever is in charge? Is Baby still in the hospital? I would think so with his/her jaw problem.
I don't think any mroe that Terri's case was rare. May I remind you of the topic fo this thread?
I used to think it was rare, but I don't any more.
You snooze, you lose. See, this woman is a little old lady who goes into the hospital for some heart procedure, and is not comatose, vegetative, anything. The original post made me think of all those little old ladies you used to see all over but don't so much anymore. The quote from the granddaughter was to the effect of well, with Granny's age and heart thing and all, well, tsk, who would want to live like that?
Terri's gone. Next we hear that this live case, now decided but how we're not certain, pulls the plug on the aged. OK. That covers the disabled, the aged. Any ideas who's next? And you aren't too anxious to dig in?
I'm feeling a little 'dumb as a stump' here. I went to HYSCIENCE, and couldn't find this case. Does anyone have a hint where to look on this site for the case??? I have never been there before so it probably was staring me straight in the face.
Thanks!!
Give me the name of a SINGLE neurologist who:
1) Examined her, and
2) Does not advertise in the National Enquirer...
...and who thought she was NOT in a PVS.
All of the neurologists who examined her (except the one featured on Quackwatch) confirmed she was in a PVS.
Please be sure to ping me when you have that name.
Like the bloggers that revealed the forged documents on CBS? Or the ones that dug up JFKerry's past?
I am sorry I simply can't find any information about Mae on this link you provided. I even used Find on This Page and typed in Mae. If you would be so kind as to give us a better link or at least tell us what we are to click on.
Many thanks.
If you talk to Kenneth again...get him to sign up at FR and keep us posted...he'll have lots of help here!
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