Posted on 04/07/2005 2:59:57 AM PDT by schmelvin
Excellent! I'm glad to see word is finally getting out.
I think you have me mistaken for someone else,
3. I checked and it was you all right, maligning Dr. Hammesfahr in this thread:
"The Once And For All Terri Schiavo's NOT Vegetative Thread!"
Do you know if an elder abuse report was called in to the State?
OKAY!
Now this is what I was waiting for.
An offical News source who has interviewed the nephew.
I am ready to roll!!!!!
Ready, Fire, Aim!
Well let's not do it that way.
Put our heads together, let's come up with a plan.
#1 the Grandmother needs an Attorney, we learned that form Terri Schindler. How do we get an Attorney for the Grandmother? Idea? Why isn't this lawer talking? Do the Brother, sister and nephew have a lawer? Or is the Lawer Schmelvin Called in her Post#106 a lawyer for the granddaughter?
Well, who woulda thunk?
GOOD ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
And once called in, must continue to follow up and make sure investigation is happening.
Smeone in the state should probably take that as an action item.
Scanned right over yours too lil'bit. I'll go with Velveeta's take and double link bump yours. :)
How about that ... a success story. Glad you decided to come back.
We could take things to the extreme. Let's look at the rich people. They get to jet around from country to country. Wear the best clothes, eat the best foods. Do you think any of them look down their noses at us average folk, saying that they wouldn't want to live like us, grabbing lunch at Burger King, living in one bedroom apartments, never leaving the state, or maybe never leaving the city you live in. Would our lives seems so pitiful to them that they thought they were doing us a favor by putting us out of our perceived misery? Money talks. I think they would like it just fine if they could off the average people and the rich could rule the world.
I saw her move her head on the video tape.
Attorney for saving Mae’s life: Jack Kirby, Kirby & Roberts, but I don't know if they work for Mae or for her siblings.
I don't know. Probably not. She went straight from a successful heart surgery to a hospice where they immediately began starving and dehydrating her.
Somehow, starving and dehydrating a family member to death is not considered abuse, but swatting a kid on the behind for misbehaving is.
Nothing makes sense anymore.
Your publicity blitz paid off, Mae is front page on WND...
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Thursday, April 7, 2005
MATTERS OF LIFE AND DEATH
Granddaughter yanks grandma's feeding tube
81-year-old neither terminally ill, comatose, nor in vegetative state
Posted: April 7, 2005
7:33 p.m. Eastern
By Sarah Foster
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to life in a hospice in LaGrange, Ga., while her immediate family fights desperately to save her life before she dies of starvation and dehydration.
Mae Magouirk was neither terminally ill, comatose nor in a "vegetative state," when Hospice-LaGrange accepted her as a patient about two weeks ago upon the request of her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, 36, an elementary school teacher.
Also upon Gaddy's request and without prior legal authority, since March 28 Hospice-LaGrange has denied Magouirk normal nourishment or fluids via a feeding tube through her nose or fluids via an IV. She has been kept sedated with morphine and ativan, a powerful tranquillizer.
Her nephew, Ken Mullinax, told WorldNetDaily that although Magouirk is given morphine and ativan, she has not received any medication to keep her eyes lubricated during her forced dehydration.
"They haven't given her anything like that for two weeks," said Mullinax. "She can't produce tears."
The dehydration is being done in defiance of Magouirk's specific wishes, which she set down in a "living will," and without agreement of her closest living next-of-kin, two siblings and a nephew: A. Byron McLeod, 64, of Anniston, Ga.; Ruth Mullinax, 74, of Birmingham, Ala.; and Ruth Mullinax's son, Ken Mullinax.
Magouirk's husband and only child, a son, are both deceased.
In her living will, Magouirk stated that fluids and nourishment were to be withheld only if she were either comatose or "vegetative," and she is neither. Nor is she terminally ill, which is generally a requirement for admission to a hospice.
Magouirk lives alone in LaGrange, though because of glaucoma she relied on her granddaughter, Beth Gaddy, to bring her food and do errands.
Two weeks ago, Magouirk's aorta had a dissection, and she was hospitalized in the local LaGrange Hospital. Her aortic problem was determined to be severe, and she was admitted to the intensive care unit. At the time of her admission she was lucid and had never been diagnosed with dementia.
Claiming that she held Magouirk's power of attorney, Gaddy had her transferred to Hospice-LaGrange, a 16-bed unit owned by the same family that owns the hospital. Once at the hospice, Gaddy stated that she did not want her grandmother fed or given water.
"Grandmama is old and I think it is time she went home to Jesus," Gaddy told Magouirk's brother and nephew, McLeod and Ken Mullinax. "She has glaucoma and now this heart problem, and who would want to live with disabilities like these?"
Gaddy's telephone is not in operation and she could not be reached for comment.
According to Mullinax, his aunt's local cardiologist in LaGrange, Dr. James Brennan, and Dr. Raed Agel, a highly acclaimed cardiologist at the nationally renowned University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, determined that her aortic dissection is contained and not life-threatening at the moment.
Mullinax also states that Gaddy did not hold power of attorney, a fact he learned from the hospice's in-house legal counsel, Carol Todd.
On March 31, Todd told Ruth and Ken Mullinax during a phone conversation Georgia law stipulated that Ruth Mullinax and her brother, A.B. McLeod, were entitled to make any and all decisions for Magouirk. Ruth Mullinax immediately told Todd to begin administering food and fluids through an IV and a nasal feeding tube.
Todd had the IV fluids started that evening, but informed the family that they would have to come to the hospice to sign papers to have the feeding tube inserted. Once that was done, Magouirk would not be able to stay at the hospice.
Ken Mullinax recalled that Todd said the only reason Magouirk was in the hospice in the first place was that the LaGrange Hospital had failed to exercise due diligence in closely examining the power of attorney Beth Gaddy said she had, as well as exercising the provisions of Magouirk's living will.
Todd explained that Gaddy had only a financial power of attorney, not a medical power of attorney, and Magouirk's living will carefully provided that a feeding tube and fluids should only be discontinued if she was comatose or in a "vegetative state" – and she was neither.
Gaddy, however, was not dissuaded. When Ken Mullinax and McLeod showed up at the hospice the following day, April 1, to meet with Todd and arrange emergency air transport for Magouirk's transfer to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Hospice-LaGrange stalled them while Gaddy went before Troup County, Ga., Probate Court Judge Donald W. Boyd and obtained an emergency guardianship over her grandmother.
Under the terms of his ruling, Gaddy was granted full and absolute authority over Magouirk, at least for the weekend. She took advantage of her judge-granted power by ordering her grandmother's feeding tube pulled out, just hours after it had been inserted.
Florida law requires that a hearing for an emergency guardianship must be held within three days of its request, and Magouirk's hearing was held April 4 before Judge Boyd. Apparently, he has not made a final ruling, but favors giving permanent guardianship power to Gaddy, who is anxious to end her grandmother's life.
Ron Panzer, president and founder of Hospice Patients Alliance, a patients' rights advocacy group based in Michigan, told WND that what is happening to Magouirk is not at all unusual.
"This is happening in hospices all over the country," he said. "Patients who are not dying – are not terminal – are admitted [to hospice] and the hospice will say they are terminally ill even if they're not. There are thousands of cases like this. Patients are given morphine and ativan to sedate them. If feeding is withheld, they die within 10 days to two weeks. It's really just a form of euthanasia."
Ken Mullinax does not want that to happen to his aunt. He pointed out that one of the ironies in this tragedy is that the now-helpless woman worked for years as a secretary for a prominent local cancer doctor.
"She devoted her whole life to helping those who heal others, and now she's being denied sustenance for life," he said.
Mullinax said he has begged Gaddy to let him take on full responsibility for his aunt's care.
"If she would just give us a chance to keep Aunt Mae alive, that's all we ask," he said. "They [Beth and her husband, Dennis Gaddy] have a family and Beth is a teacher, and it was just getting to be a lot of trouble. But I'm the caregiver for my mom, and Aunt Mae could move in with us. We'll buy another house with a bedroom and we'll take care of her. She can move in with us once she can leave the hospital."
But her health becomes more precarious by the hour. Her vital signs are still good, but since admission to hospice she has not been lucid – "but who would be since nourishment and fluids have been denied since March 28," Mullinax remarked.
Attorney Carol Todd could not be reached for comment; a message on her voicemail said she would not be gone the entire week of April 4. Hospice-LaGrange did not return phone calls.
WorldNetDaily has been reporting on the Terri Schiavo story since 2002 – far longer than most other national news organization – and exposing the many troubling, scandalous, and possibly criminal, aspects of the case that to this day rarely surface in news reports. Read WorldNetDaily's unparalleled, in-depth coverage of the life-and-death fight over Terri Schiavo, including over 150 original stories and columns.
Editor's note: "Life and Death in America" – a stunning special investigative report that will start with the Terri Schiavo story, but will go on to expose as never before America's rapidly expanding euthanasia/"right-to-die" movement – will be the focus of an upcoming issue of WND's acclaimed monthly Whistleblower magazine.
Sarah Foster is a staff reporter for WorldNetDaily.
Hmmm. Brave New America. . or could the plan be even bigger . . as in Brave New World With All Sorts of Tentacles . .
Hospitals. . Hmmm. Say you go to a hospital with pneumonia. They put you in the ER and hook you up to stuff. They label you as "elderly and undesirable" in this particular Brave New World Hospital. You have a rough spot and have to be put on a feeding tube, you go into a coma. Your spouse has to go home for a few hours to get more clothes and take care of business. For some odd reason, when she returns to the hospital, the Director of Patient Services has inexplicably sent you (on doctor's orders) to a hospice, where papers have been signed indicating that you are "terminal". A new "guardian" has been appointed by the New World Tribunal Court. Your spouse objects, but the judge has already ruled. There is a court fight, but your guardian (a greedy relative, next in line to inherit after your spouse). In the interim you have regained consciousness. The new "guardian" orders that you are to remain attached to the feeding tube and that absolutely no therapy or swallowing exercises be done. Now he is petitioning to have the feeding tube removed. The spouse is still ignored and the judge rules the tube is to be removed. After all, you are 68 and wouldn't want to live like that as the relative has sworn in a deposition. So, tube removed, you expire. A month later, your spouse mysteriously disappears, "depressed and suicidal" the guardian relative muses. Spouse is found in a couple of weeks, obviously having committed suicide . . . (ha), then voila the greedy relative inherits your sizable fortune and property. All parties involved get new cars, boats and wardrobes for their mistresses. Getting rid of the old and undesirable one at a time and "freeing up" their wasted assets for the common good of the capable, strong, able and powerful. Motto of the Brave New World.
LaGrange, GA is in Troup County.....correct?
GA Dept of Human Resources
REPORT ABUSE:
(404) 657-9639
OR FAX WRITTEN REPORT TO: (404) 657-5737
MAE needs an attorney. Anyone know an attorney credentialed in GA?
An abuse report might help in a big way.
Truly sickening.
I think he's Mae's siblings attorney, but I'm not sure. Like you said, he's not talking. He hasn't responded to my email yet either. Maybe, he's too busy working on the case to get back to us. I hope so anyway.
I still have yet to read the news story on the other thread, although I definitely plan to do so. There might be more info there that we haven't uncovered ourselves yet.
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