Posted on 10/22/2003 6:17:38 AM PDT by NYer
-- Thanks to the executive order issued by Governor Jeb Bush, Terri Schiavo is receiving fluids and medical care at a local hospital to prepare for the reinsertion of the feeding tube that provides her with food and water.
Staff at Morton Plant Hospital began rehydrating Terri intravenously according to Pat Anderson, lead attorney for Terri's family.
As long as Terri did not have kidney failure, she should be able to return to the state of health she was in prior to the removal of the feeding tube, one pro-life doctor told LifeNews.com.
Terri was taken by ambulance from the hospice where she had been staying to the local hospital and a crowd of supporters cheered. Dozens of dedicated supporters have been holding a round-the-clock prayer vigil and protest in support of Terri and her family.
"I'm ecstatic she's being fed again,'' said her brother, Bob Schindler, Jr. "I don't think I can describe the way I feel right now. It's been unreal.''
However, Terri's family said she has had a noticeable change in condition during the 24 hours prior to her transfer to the hospital Tuesday evening.
Suzanne Carr, Terri's sister, said Terri looked "very, very gaunt.''
Monsignor Thaddeus Malanowski, who was denied the opportunity to provide Terri a possible last communion, said her skin, when pinched Monday night, didn't retract -- a sign her condition had deteriorated.
Bob Schindler Jr., Terri's brother, said, "Every second here is an hour.''
Florida Department of Law Enforcement officials said that hospital workers faced arrest if they did not act on Bush's executive order and care for Terri.
Meanwhile, Michael Schiavo was "deeply troubled, angry and saddened that his wife's wishes have become a political pingpong,'' said Michael Schiavo's lead attorney George Felos, an assisted suicide advocate. "He, as many others, is absolutely stunned at the course of events.''
Felos, filed a motion with Circuit Court Judge George Greer asking for an injunction to overturn Bush's order.
Greer, who originally granted Michael's decision to remove Terri's feeding tube, denied Felos' motion, but only on technical grounds. Felos refiled the motion but State Circuit Judge W. Douglas Baird also refused to grant his request.
"We won. Terri won,'' Terri's father Bob Schindler said after the ruling.
Felos has five days to file additional arguments in a revised petition to overturn Bush's order. Once he does that, the state has five days in which to respond -- potentially granting Terri as much as a 10 day reprieve from further action denying her right to live.
The Florida Supreme Court has twice refused to hear the case, as has the U.S. Supreme Court. However, either side could appeal decisions regarding the legislation and Bush's executive order to those courts.
THANKS!!! for posting that information.
When my grandmother was dieing, NO hospice would take her in until the final months of her life, and, even then, there was a lengthy waiting list.
Terri Schiavo has been in this hospice for 3 years! That made no sense to me. Your post explains it! Is it okay if I pass this information on to Pete Vere, a canon lawyer, who is advocating for the Schindler family. He just returned from FL where he spent several days with the family.
I personally know of folks who you would see as canidates for death. One is my Grandmother. She is 100 years old. She is in and out of Altzheimers. She just got over double pneumia and off the liquid diet and on solid food. For awhile there it was ify. When it was ify we relied on her living will for her wishes - no heroic efforts to sustain her. For awhile while ill she was NOT eating at all and the feeding tube issue came up. We declined because it was her wish NOT to be on that. They were getting ready to give her morphine. but we noticed even at 100 years old and ill she still wanted to live! So we declined again.
Slowly she got better. She's now walking around after being bed ridden. She's doing her social stuff again and eating solid food. If you EVER ask her, do you still want to live? She'll look at you like your crazy and say OF COURSE! She is a VERY strong willed woman.
Does she fear death? Absolutely not. She loves her children, their families and her grandchildren. She lives because she loves. Someday when she does go t heaven I have no doubt there will be alot of celebrating going on. Her husband will be rejoicing.
She is athe real mccoy when it comes to being a Christian - belief wise and knowledge wise. She knows it is NOT up to her to take her life. It is up to God. He will do that when He deems so and not before. She knows she is to do the best she can in this life till it is time for her to go to heaven. It's called being obedient to God and letting His will prevail.
I am thrilled that she is here. Even at 100 years old. My daughter loves her too! She's only four and so fortunate to KNOW her Great Grandmother. She is just as delighted to see her and all her other grandchildren and their babies. I'm one of 13 grandchildren. Of those 13 grandchildren we have about 40 children between us. Oh, forgot to say my grandmother had four children. She is VERY blessed and so are we. We wouldn't even consider murdering her because she was too old.
Sorry to hear about your Grandmother. Mine was ify for awhile but came through. We LOVE her even at 100 with altzheimers. We wouldn't dream of murdering her.
Your argument isn't much different from letting an infant starve to death, so that it doesn't have to endure the pains of life. I'm sure Terri's real family is aware of her situation. It's clear that they love her and want her to live.
Welcome to Freerepublic... how long do you plan to stay?
What Tribe neglects to say is that the US Supreme Court ruled AGAINST starving and dehydrating Nancy Cruzan to death, in the absence of clear and convincing evidence of her wishes.
Following that victory for life in SCOTUS, the case had to be sent back down to the Missouri court that had ruled for pulling the feeding tube.
The Missouri court then suddenly and conveniently "discovered" two ex-co-workers of Nancy's who claimed Nancy had once expressed a wish "not to live like that."
The Missouri court declared the ex-co-workers' statements to be "clear and convincing evidence" of Nancy's wishes, and then successfully ordered Nancy starved and dehydrated to death.
A little publicized footnote to the Nancy Cruzan case: Joseph Cruzan, Nancy's father, committed suicide a few years after campaigning for her ghastly "death with dignity."
He's really going to be stunned when he faces the wrath of God. He ain't seen nothing yet!
Ha! Which is exactly the opposite of what this poor woman had in store! What she was experiencing was neither natural nor dignified.
What's SHE crying about? Larcenia Bullard voted AGAINST Terri's bill:
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