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***
Owe you an apology. I misread your statment I think it was post#232 You actually said
She was vegetative, just not brain dead.
I misread that.
Now that I cleared that up, Minimul Conscious was a medically accepted diagnosis AFTER Judge greer Ruled. Doesn't matter if anyone would have proposed it during the time frame of the Judges Ruling because at that time, it was NOT a Medically Accepted Diagnosis.
You wrote:
Then you quote someone who says:
"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."
My reply: That "Someone" happens to be EDITOR IN CHIEF OF THE JOUNAL OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. This is no quack someone, as are many many many of the other Medical Provider Affidavits.
Let me ask you this. If you were the Judge and YOU read the Affidavits would you have ordered more tests before you signed off on the Death Sentence? Just a simple Yes or no with an expliantion if you care to make one. But you have to take the time to read the Medical Affidavits on the www.Terrisfight.org webstie before you answer. No fair answering if you have not done the research.
"...where insufficient blood flow to the brain is a part of the problem..."
Note that it's not saying "where an insufficient blood flow destroyed the brain tissue"... ADD, etc., isn't about destroyed brain tissue--it's about underactive brain tissue. This is like saying, "my flowers were wilting, so I gave them water" is proof that "my flowers have wilted, so water will revive them" is true...when it's not.
Why, why,why don't these folks divorce their 'troublesome' spouse, especially since the family wishes to make sure they cared for.
And the man indicated he wanted to live!!
Thanks for such a valuable link. I just got off the phone with my mom, she's retired and said she would be happy to make some phone calls from the contact numbers we get.
I shared some of the vignettes posted on here with her and she is willing to get a couple of her friends to make calls too.
You should be aware that terrisfight.org has done some censoring of the documents...you can't get them all anymore. Many of the ones that illustrate the contradictions are gone.
I don't understand your reply to me.
You replied to my post #272.
Nothing in that post is innuendo, not a thing.
It is all 100% fact and part of the court record.
I am not going to take the time to dig out the court record, I woudl have to dig around a lot to find it. But trust me everything in post #272 is accurate, and none of it is innuendo.
Gray cells.....
I have taken them on picnics, to the zoo, to the museum, to carnivals, out to dinner in restaurants, to movies and out shopping. They just want to be treated like people. I've seen them say 'hello' to strangers, only to be ignored. I've also seen the largest grins and smiles on their faces over simple things like zoo animals and seeing a movie in a theater. I took them to a 3D movie and those that can be understood, talked about that for months and months.
It isn't so much that their quality of life is so poor, its that we have gotten to the point that we require so much more stimuli to be happy, than they do. For some of these people, going out for a cup of coffee makes them happy. Remembering their birthdays, elates them. It's the only day that is theirs, and they all look forward to it, no matter how old they may be.
Just because we might not want to live a life so limited, doesn't mean all people would feel that way. If all you ever knew was a severely limited life, that would be NORMAL for you.
Sorry for the ramble, but when they killed Terri, they left the door open for all handicapped people.
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Well the Medical Affidavits are still there.
Go www.TerrisFight.org, then click on Court Documents,
The way over ont he right there is a frame that holds the medical affidavits.
They are still there please have a read then come back and let us know if you as the Judge would or would not have gotten further medical testing before removal of her feeding tube.
bookmark for action. Send to your parents, also.
Had Terri made out a living will that had been notarized and witnessed by two people, we wouldn't be having this conversation. BUT SHE DID NOT HAVE IT IN WRITING. Instead, the court accepts her estranged husband stating that she had said she wouldn't want to live that way. Meanwhile, Terri's friends say the opposite. At best they cancel each other out.
Well I guess you feel you can make better medical judgments than the Editor and Chief of the American Journal of Physicians and Surgeons then?
Again his affidavit:
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”
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Call your senators tonight!
The Capitol operator is still answering.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1378688/posts
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Isn't it just coincidental that the grandaughter has control over "Grandmama's" money and now wants her to die? The love of money is indeed the root of all evil.
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I was totally right about you.
You are the best of the best.
And Terris Freepers are the best.
Keep posting, I'll always read your posts.
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