24-hour Vigil Planned for Terri SchiavoFounder of Operation Rescue Joins the Vigil

Randall Terry

[amdgmary]

On Monday, Oct 13, at noon, family and friends of Terri Schindler-Schiavo will begin a round-the-clock vigil on at Woodside Hospice located at 6774 102nd Ave N, Pinellas Park (66th St N & 102nd Ave).

Terri is scheduled to have her feeding tube removed on Wednesday, Oct 15, at 2:00 pm. A policeman will be posted at Terri's door at the hospice in order to keep the parents out. Michael Schiavo, the husband, has ordered that the does not want family and friends near Terri.

Please join us at Woodside Hospice anytime - day or night - calling on Governor Jeb Bush to use his executive power to save Terri's life. Your presence will be welcomed for any length of time.

Please contact Gov. Jeb Bush and ask him to save Terri's life. He has the power to do so. Gov. Bush's e-mail is Jeb.Bush@MyFlorida.com and fl_governor@eog.state.fl.us. His phone number is 850-488-7146.

Randall Terry would like as many people as possible to call or send an e-mail to Gov. Bush. If you do call or send a message, please thank him for acting as "amicus curiae" (friend of the court) on behalf of Terri.

Terri is disabled, but she is not in a coma or in a persistant vegetative state. She is fully aware of her surroundings and responds to people around her. She laughs and smiles when her parents visit her. Last night, her parents told me that she says "yes", "no", "hello." This may not sound like much, but it shows that Terri is not in a coma as her husband claims. Terri also told her parents that she does not want to be starved to death.

Randall Terry of Operation Rescue will hold a press conference at noon on Monday, Oct 13th. He will also have a press conference on Tueday at noon and Wednesday at 2:00 pm. If you live in the Tampa Bay area, please join us for the vigil.

It is inconceivable that a judge has ordered the death of an innocent woman. We need to do everything in our power to help Terri.

Thank you for your support!

[tutstar]

btt myself to write him tomorrow....

[trustandobey]

Thanks for posting the letter, I feel the same way. We must pray believing. Lord, Help us now.

[ladyinred]

This is a horror story if ever there was one. I have feared for years that this so called Living will stuff would come to this. I have seen it going in this direction for a long time, and saw it happen in my own family twice.

God help Terri and her real family.

[fly_so_free]

Your letter is so good. Judge Greer is beyond cold.

(I can't write to him. I'm too angry... I can't keep my thoughts toghether.)

Your letter says it best , so eloquently- what many of us here are feeling. It is well written. I hope Greer reads it and thinks about it for a long time.

[Tammy8]

So many were saying their emails to Bush are being rejected, or getting a message it's full. I did a little experiment today- I sent a message with Terri in the subject line and it was rejected- then I sent one with concerned as the subject, it went right through and I got an auto response immediately. Not saying certain words in subject may cause rejection, BUT...........I only tried this at the myflorida address-

[dixiegrrl]

Thanks! I will try that.

[Ethan_Allen]

I was reading through the Florida statutes...saw your post. The world has gone mad. I know a lot of self-centered people, but I'm not sure I've ever met any so weird as this. Are we in the twilight zone?

My daughter was saying just last week how she wanted to go to Boston. I'll have to break it to her.....

I think once their agenda becomes common knowledge, it will have the effect of diminishing organ donations. I suppose then they will pass a law making it mandatory.

Terri's parents must be beside themselves now. I pray God will deliver Terri from this evil.

[dixiegrrl]

I can understand the twilight zone feeling. Since I started doing research on the internet to help Terri, I have been every where from the Hemlock Society to Scientology. What makes that even scarier is that I was looking up the members of the hospice board when I went to all these places. I have found out that Earthlink is one of the front companies for the Scientologists!

[Ethan_Allen]

Beautiful letter, Republic. If he ever reads it, I bet it will leave an impact.

[Ethan_Allen]

'We must pray believing. Lord, Help us now.'

You are right...the faith of a mustard seed. That's all I can muster right now in the face of such evil and cruelty and lack of responsibility. But with God, all things are possible. Must go and pray for Terri and her parents, family, and friends. May God sustain them. And may God find just one person in authority who will say, Here am I lord, send me.

[MistyCA]

Two years ago my 90 mom started bleeding. I called the doctor and told her. She said nothing in response. So I said, "What should I do? Do you want to see her?" The doctor said, "What do you want me to do?" I was LIVID by then. I read her the riot act. I couldn't believe that she wouldn't have said, bring her in or suggested something else I should do. Her attitude was, she's 90...just leave her be! This doctor even suggested that it wouldn't be good to examine a woman of my mom's age! It turned out that she had a large tumor.....uterine cancer.

Well, after going to bat and finally getting a doctor to agree to do radiation (by suggesting he should do for us what he would do for his own mom) my mom was treated for the cancer they said was very advanced. When I asked them to tell me whether or not it was successful, they refused to do any further tests. That was in California.

Now we are in Minnesota and the doctors here did some scans and the tumor is no longer visible. My mom went from a situation where they were going to allow her to bleed out to cancer free. Had I listened to the docs, she would be dead now.

The medical community now days seems to have very little respect for SOME life. If you are not useful and productive, they are willing to let you go. I am so disgusted by what I have seen in the medical community recently in California that I never want to go back there. But I suspect it is only a matter of time before it affects all segments of the US. My aunt was allowed to die because the doctors refused to give her a bone marrow transplant. My brother died because the VA refused to give him a heart transplant until it was too late to help him. Learning to be an effective advocate in those circumstances takes time. We need teams of people who do nothing but advocate for those who can't speak on their own behalf. I have strong feelings about this because of my experiences. I hope others have strong feelings about it before they are in a situation where it hits home. If we don't, people like Terri will be having their feeding tubes pulled as a matter of course. It's sick.

[MistyCA]

I don't know. I don't know who to contact with regard to that. I wish I did. Social services? A rehab facility?

[dixiegrrl]

I am so glad that your mom made it through the cancer. My mom did not, She passed away 2 years ago. She went to her doctor and was telling him that she was run down and losing weight and he did a pap test which came out ok. Well the next time she went he basically said she was going through menapause and to get a life. My mom had uterine,ovarian,liver and bone cancer by the time they found out what was wrong with her. She had lost over 35 pounds in 1 month and She was diagnosed in Feb 2001 and died in June 2001. And as to the menopause she was not in menopause and we believe that the high doses of hormones they gave her made the cancer go bezerk. I am lucky my doctor is really good. She cares and she has a family history like mine. Oh I forgot to mention my mom lived in Florida! So I am very leary when it comes to Doctors and even more so when I first heard about this case. I think that the hypocratic oath has become the HYPOCRIT oath! I have told everyone I know that I do not want to be in the same situiation as Terri, They are to leave the feeding tube in and do everything within their power to keep me alive. The only way they can pull anything is if I am legally brain dead and then they have to have at least 6 opinions and if one says I am not brain dead well sorry but the plug stays!

[windchime]

"I pray God will deliver Terri from this evil."


So do I.

As many of us on these threads now know, this is an organized, worldwide and powerful campaign. My research was limited to the players in Terri's case. If the advocates involved in assisted suicide/euthanasia cases in the USA since 1994 were cross-referenced with Project on Death in America or the Open Society Institute, I feel sure a relationship would be established.

Terri Schindler-Schiavo has, even in her incapacitated state, made a contribution to society......IF we heed the information that has been unearthed.

[bonfire]

Beautiful. Thanks for sharing your letter.

[MistyCA]

That's fantastic! Thanks! I will read their website. :)

[RightOnline]

So a cop is guarding the door to keep the parents out.

So....................when a cop crosses from being a LEO to being a paid thug, do I get to treat him accordingly?

[MistyCA]

I am so sorry about your mom. It helped that my sister is a doctor and really laid a guilt trip on the oncologist. People do not realize how bad the medical situation has become on the past years unless they are personally touched by it, and even then too many trust the doctors and do whatever they are told. I have come to think of doctors as I do auto mechanics. If they can screw it up, they will. You darn well had better learn as much as they know, and then some, because without your own knowledge you are likely to suffer from the result of their errors. I have seen so much that I simply can't trust them to do the right thing anymore. And that's pathetic!

[MistyCA]

Hiya, Bon! :)

[dixiegrrl]

Thanks for sharing your story, because that was the first time that I have ever said anything about my mom(at least to people outside the family). I knew that you would understand. I now research everything before I go in to the doctor. It is pathetic that we have to be so worried that our doctors are going to harm us. You and your sister sound like my sister and me very fiesty! I think once you lose someone you love to doctor negligence, you never really trust them again. My husband and I researched for hours before we came up with the fact that he had sciatica, then he went to the doctor and told them what he wanted done. I have even less trust for them since I started researching all this about Terri. I think that they forget or just don't care that we are human beings and deserve their care and compassion. Not their judgements and holier than thou attitudes.