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***
***Chicken Sandwich Update***
Ken emailed this P.S. just now:
Oh, by the way, Mae wants chicken sandwiches but to date, she has not had any due to the weak flap in her throat resulting from her Hospice stay.
Dr. Aqel did start her on mushy real food today.
YEA and thanks Christ!
Ken
SEE COMMENT #2698 e-mail from Ken Mullinax, don't miss it!
Miss Mae is eating 'mushy real food today'! Yeah, thanks be to the Lord and Ken Mullinax.
I just love to hear that Miss Mae is doing so well. I think Beth just doesn't like the fact that she got outed for what she was doing to her grandmama. Who would? The important thing is that Miss Mae got what she asked for in her living will, food and water to be provided, and it is unfortunate that Gaddy didn't see fit to honor grandmama's wishes when she was "in control".
http://tekgnosis.typepad.com
New England Journal of Medical Science doctor spreads falsehood re: Terri and shows himself as part of the Merchants of Death network.
Make that euthanasia/assisted suicide loving doctor.
>>1991 Dr. Timothy Quill writes about "Diane" in the New England Journal of Medicine, describing his provision of lethal drugs to a leukemia patient who chose to die at home by her own hand rather than undergo therapy that offered a 25 percent chance of survival.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:iNhofGNxArIJ:www.finalexit.org/chronframe.html+euthanasia+society+america&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
The rush to kill people who are not completely healthy chills me to the bone. It smacks too much of a eugenics campaign. Since foetuses became "disposable" other defenseless people became fair game.
Good work at tekgnosis!
I'm sure she does. I posted a reply about my mom on one of these threads, some time ago. She had Alzheimer's and dementia. Just up and caught pneumonia, and didn't want to breathe. In the hospital, she received IV fluids, and oxygen. She passed away on my dad's birthday. I went to the board and care facility to personally tell the nurses that mom died. When I mentioned that it was my dad's birthday, one of the nurses told me that 2 weeks prior to her sudden decline, she said that she was wanted to see her husband. She started crying...again :( She died on on God's time, no one else.
Any one who thinks this is BS can FReepmail me.
No one should be starved and dehydrated to death. I wish this could be the end of the debate. There is nothing to debate, actually.
I agree with you. There is nothing to debate. They should not have starved and dehydrated Terry. They should not have prevented her from having therapy. They should not have prevented the staff from cleaning her teeth. They should not have kept the shades drawn, they should not have kept her in that room like a prisoner for years...but even prisoners get therapy, dental care, exercise, food and water...
THERE'S NO DEBATE BECAUSE WHAT THEY DID TO TERRI WAS MURDER!
And then 'they' tried to do the same to Miss Mae. For the rest of my life, I will continue to ask myself the same question:
HOW COULD ANYONE DENY AN 8I Y.O WOMAN NOURISHMENT AND EYE-DROPS FOR GLAUCOMA?
It's disgusting. I talked with my aunt the other day. She retired from nursing, when they made it a law that you had to assist an abortiion. She told me incidences years ago, where greedy little shits would nudge for "more morphine" for grandma.
It's a sick world, where you just let someone rot in a bed, praying that your neglect will finish them off.
Expat, Mae is NOT eating chicken sandwiches...she is asking for them! She still has the tube up her nose.
I am on an email list, which passed on a letter from the nephew telling us what Mae is up to. It must be posted somewhere on this site.
How's the weather in France?
Beth Gaddy is a snake.
And a monster.
And no matter WHAT happens to Mae down the road, she was LOVED and VALUED by her sister, brother and nephew.
God Bless Mae and the family that actually loves her and wants to honor Mae's end of life decisions as well as keep her around on earth for AS LONG as she wants to be here.
Shame on beth gaddy and her greedy mom and brother.
We won one!!! =]
Me too and also people who are/were completely healthy like Terri. Now Jeb Bush is going to represent the U.S. at the inauguration of the new Pope at the Vatican.
Trying to end the life of an 81 year old who obviously has the will to live I'd say is undefendable.
Thanks for the update. The power of the internet is going to put the death industry out of business and the sooner the better.
there's a difference between last post on a thread and a bogus swan song though.. I think we know you're reliable..
That would be a very 'good thing' ! :^)
But what about Ken? Has Beth the would be executioner allowed Ken in, yet?
My how I hope Beth has to spend every cent she has on law suits!
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