To: MistyCA
Your Welcome. If I hear one more time that Terri is comatose and vegetable or anything else I am going scream! I was at the grocery store and a mom was pushing her beautiful baby down the aisle and I realized that if this happens to Terri then, this baby could be next. She was a down syndrome baby. If they get away with this then what is stop them from coming after anyone they feel is not "normal". I am angered by how little is being said by the major media and the fact that if Terri were an animal they would be screaming to have something done. I feel that I am living in nazi germany.I thought that you were supposed to learn from history not repeat it.
To: dixiegrrl
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.
331 posted on
10/14/2003 9:29:21 PM PDT by
MistyCA
(For some...it's always going to be "A Nam Thing!")
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