http://www.hospicepatients.org/terri-schiavo-10-12-02-press-rel.html
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Hospice Patients Alliance Blasts Hospice Agencies
That Terrorize the Chronically Disabled
by Ron Panzer, President HPA
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - October 15, 2002 - Terri Schiavo currently is being held in a Pinellas County Florida hospice that is not licensed to provide care for the chronically ill. Terri Schiavo is a non-terminal disabled patient with brain damage. Terri's own treating physician, Dr. Vincent Gambone, testified before the court,saying "her condition is one that there is no recovery. The damage that is done to the brain is not repairable."1 However, the chronically disabled are by definition not going to recover completely. These are not terminal patients, and the disabled can live many years so long as they are not intentionally killed.
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Thanks for the link - terrifying.
and every time I see this particular photo of Terri, it's wrenches my heart. It was taken while she was getting therapy and I challenge anyone to look at her and say - "vegetable" - she was benefiting from therapy...but after being thrown away and denied not only therapy or medical care for colds, infections, NO stimulation like wheelchair rides outside, radio only on one station, limited visitors, etc etc - I challenge anyone to lie in a bed, in a tiny shaded room for a decade - to not go insane (Terri didn't ) let alone improve...criminal beyond belief. I have to believe "revenge is mine, sayeth the Lord." 