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To: vox humana
"One has to wonder what additional permanent damage has been done to the body and the brain by withholding nutrition for the past five days."

Probably not as bad as you think. Remember, it's not like she's sweating or exercising and burning calories. In that state a human being can go a remarkably long time without being permanently damaged by lack of food and water. At a rough guess I wouldn't expect real damage to occur until about 8-10 days. If she gets put back on tomorrow, she should be fine.

Of course, this is assuming she had no medical issues that I'm unaware of beforehand. Also, I have no idea what effect the morphine would have on her (raising or lowering metabolism, that is).

Qwinn

53 posted on 10/20/2003 10:59:09 PM PDT by Qwinn
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To: Qwinn
In that state a human being can go a remarkably long time without being permanently damaged by lack of food and water.

Do you have any references to back this up?

64 posted on 10/21/2003 5:10:51 AM PDT by SwordofTruth
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To: Qwinn
"Of course, this is assuming she had no medical issues that I'm unaware of beforehand. Also, I have no idea what effect the morphine would have on her (raising or lowering metabolism, that is)."

It was reported over the weekend that MS ordered the medication stopped because Terri's mom had trouble waking her up one day. As horrible as that sounds, it may have actually helped her.
107 posted on 10/21/2003 8:37:14 AM PDT by iowamomforfreedom (Why is it illegal to starve an animal but not a human being?)
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