Posted on 10/23/2003 5:58:54 PM PDT by First_Salute
AFFIDAVIT
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STATE OF FLORIDA )
COUNTY OF PINELLAS )
BEFORE ME the undersigned authority personally appeared CARLA
SAUER IYER, R.N., who being first duly sworn, deposes and says:
1. My name is Carla Sauer Iyer. I am over the age of eighteen and make
this statement of my own personal knowledge.
2. I am a registered nurse in the State of Florida, having been licensed
continuously in Florida from 1997 to the present. Prior to that I was a
Licensed Practical Nurse for about four years.
3. I was employed at Palm Garden of Largo Convalescent Center in
Largo, Florida from April 1995 to July 1996, while Terri Schiavo
was a patient there.
4. It was clear to me at Palm Gardens that all decisions regarding Terri
Schiavo were made by Michael Schiavo, with no allowance made for
any discussion, debate or normal professional judgment. My initial
training there consisted solely of the instruction "Do what Michael
Schiavo tells you or you will be terminated." This struck me as
extremely odd.
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5. I was very disturbed by the decision making protocol, as no allowance
whatsoever was made for professional responsibility. The atmosphere
throughout the facility was dominated by Mr. Schiavo's intimidation.
Everyone there, with the exception of several people who seemed to be
close to Michael, was intimidated by him. Michael Schiavo always
had an overbearing attitude, yelling numerous times such things as
"This is my order and you're going to follow it." He is very large and
uses menacing body language, such as standing too close to you,
getting right in your face and practically shouting.
6. To the best of my recollection, rehabilitation had been ordered for
Terri, but I never saw any being done or had any reason at all to
believe that there was ever any rehab of Terri done at Palm Gardens
while I was there. I became concerned because Michael wanted
nothing done for Terri at all, no antibiotics, no tests, no range of
motion therapy, no stimulation, no nothing. Michael said again and
again that Terri should NOT get any rehab, that there should be no
range of motion whatsoever, or anything else. I and a CNA named
Roxy would give Terri range of motion anyway. One time I put a
wash cloth in Terri's hand to keep her fingers from curling together,
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and Michael saw it and made me take it out, saying that was therapy.
7. Terri's medical condition was systematically distorted and
misrepresented by Michael. When I worked with her, she was alert
and oriented. Terri spoke on a regular basis while in my presence,
saying such things as "mommy," and "help me." "Help me" was, in
fact, one of her most frequent utterances. I heard her say it hundreds
of times. Terri would try to say the word "pain" when she was in
discomfort, but it came out more like "pay." She didn't say the "n"
sound very well. During her menses she would indicate her discomfort
by saying "pay" and moving her arms toward her lower abdominal
area. Other ways that she would indicate that she was in pain included
pursing her lips, grimacing, thrashing in bed, curling her toes or
moving her legs around. She would let you know when she had a
bowel movement by flipping up the covers and pulling on her diaper
and scooted in bed on her bottom.
8. When I came into her room and said "Hi, Terri", she would always
recognize my voice and her name, and would turn her head all the way
toward me, saying "Haaaiiiii" sort of, as she did. I recognized this as a
"hi", which is very close to what it sounded like, the whole sound
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being only a second or two long. When I told her humrous stories
about my life or something I read in the paper, Terri would chuckle,
sometimes more a giggle or laugh. She would move her whole body,
upper and lower. Her legs would sometimes be off the bed, and need
to be repositioned. I made numerous entries into the nursing notes in
her chart, stating verbatim what she said and her various behaviors, but
by my next on-duty shift, the notes would be deleted from her chart.
Every time I made a positive entry about any responsiveness of Terri's,
someone would remove it after my shift ended. Michael always
demanded to see her chart as soon as he arrived, and would take it in
her room with him. I documented Terri's rehab potential well,
writing whole pages about Terri's responsiveness, but they would
always be deleted by the next time I saw her chart. The reason I wrote
so much was that everybody else seemed to be afraid to make positive
entries for fear of their jobs, but I felt very strongly that a nurses job
was to accurately record everything we see and hear that bears on a
patients condition and their family. I upheld the Nurses Practice Act,
and if it cost me my job, I was willing to accept that.
9. Throughout my time at Palm Gardens, Michael Schiavo was focused
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on Terri's death. Michael would say "When is she going to die?,"
"Has she died yet?" and "When is that bitch gonna die?" These
statements were common knowledge at Palm Gardens, as he would
make them casually in passing, without regard even for who he was
talking to, as long as it was a staff member. Other statements which I
recall him making include "Can't anything be done to accelerate her
death - won't she ever die?" When she wouldn't die, Michael would
be furious. Michael was also adamant that the family should not be
given information. He made numerous statements such as "Make sure
the parents aren't contacted." I recorded Michael's statements word
for word in Terri's chart, but these entries were also deleted after the
end of my shift. Standing orders were that the family wasn't to be
contacted, in fact, there was a large sign in the front of her chart that
said under no circumstances was her family to be called, call Michael
immediately, but I would call them, anyway, because I thought they
should know about their daughter.
10. Any time Terri would be sick, like with a UTI or fluid buildup in her
lungs, colds, or pneumonia, Michael would be visibly excited, thrilled
even, hoping that she would die. He would say something like,
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"Hallelujah! You've made my day!" He would call me, as I was the
nurse supervisor on the floor, and ask for every little detail about her
temperature, blood pressure, etc., and would call back frequently
asking if she was dead yet. He would blurt out "I'm going to be rich!"
and would talk about all the things he would buy when Terri died,
which included a new car, a new boat, and going to Europe, among
other things.
11. When Michael visited Terri, he always came alone and always had the
door closed and locked while he was with Terri. He would typically
be there about twenty minutes or so. When he left Terri would be
trembling, crying hysterically, and would be very pale and have cold
sweats. It looked to me like Terri was having a hypoglycemic reaction,
so I'd check her blood sugar. The glucometer reading would be so low
it was below the range where it would register an actual number
reading. I would put dextrose in Terri's mouth to counteract it. This
happened about five times on my shift, as I recall. Normally Terri's
blood sugar levels were very stable due to the uniformity of her diet
through tube feeding. It is medically possible that Michael injected
Terri with Regular insulin, which is very fast acting, but I don't have
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any way of knowing for sure.
12. The longer I was employed at Palm Gardens the more concerned I
became about patient care, both relating to Terri Schiavo, for the
reasons I've said, and other patients, too. There was an LPN named
Carolyn Adams, known as "Andy" Adams who was a particular
concern. An unusual number of patients seemed to die on her shift,
but she was completely unconcerned, making statements such as
"They are old - let them die." I couldn't believe her attitude or the fact
that it didn't seem to attract any attention. She made many comments
about Terri being a waste of money, that she should die. She said it
was costing Michael a lot of money to keep her alive, and that he
complained about it constantly (I heard him complain about it all the
time, too.) Both Michael and Adams said that she would be worth
more to him if she were dead. I ultimately called the police relative to
this situation, and was terminated the next day. Other reasons were
cited, but I was convinced it was because of my "rocking the boat."
13. Ms. Adams was one of the people who did not seem to be intimidated
by Michael. In fact, they seemed to be very close, and Adams would
do whatever Michael told her. Michael sometimes called Adams at
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night and spoke at length. I was not able to hear the content of these
phone calls, but I knew it was him talking to her because she would
tell me afterward and relay orders from him.
14. I have contacted the Schindler family because I just couldn't stand by
and let Terri die without the truth being known.
FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NAUGHT.
<signed>
CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N.
The foregoing instrument was acknowledged before me this 29 day of August,
2003, by CARLA SAUER IYER, R.N., who produced her Florida's driver's license
as identification, and who did take an oath.
<signed Patricia J. Anderson>
Notary Public
My commission expires
<Notary seal of Patricia J. Anderson>
He's gotten this far.......
It's not inconceivable that Michael could have sized up some of the staff as having the same attitude towards Terri as he did, and consequently ran his mouth about his wishes that she die. Certainly not in today's world!
For those of you who think the affidavit from the nurse is bogus... I guess that just allows you to sleep better at night, deluding yourselves into thinking that Michael Schiavo is a saint. There is some type of collusion going on between Michael Schiavo,the administration and some of the nursing staff at the care facility Terri is at. Why hasn't the state of Florida done a medical review on this care facility and treatment of Terri? Just because someone is your spouse, does that mean they can with hold all rehab to possibly improve your condition? Why hasn't anyone questioned this over the last 15 years? The state does inquires for things far less significant than this, why hasn't this been looked into? If I was married to this man, I would not wanting him speaking on my behalf. Now, husband's that have wives in comas, etc., can just tell medical staff to pull the plug or feeding tube... whether or not it's true. Nobody needs to substantiate it. Where is the ACLU or Feminist's standing up for Terri on this issue? Michael Schiavo holds all the cards here, and the deck is so stacked against Terri. Why is that??? While more and more of Michael's credibility is revealed, I don't understand why some of these things aren't questioned? There has to be other people who know the "real" Michael Schiavo, please come forward and let the public know who he really is. The public is allowing Michael Schiavo to get away with murder.
You are wrong!
There are quite a few sworn affidavits at this website dedicated to Terri. You can read them if you are not afraid of what you will find.
Here is the site....
http://www.terrisfight.net/
Michael is a MONSTER and if he had been a loving husband he would have gotten Terri the help she needed. I have seen her videos on this same site and she is NOT in a coma and would have improved with therapy. (The "coma" is just a "MICHAEL THE MONSTER" lie!....That people like you believe.......for no good reason really,....just because!) I wish people would do their homework before they take a stand.
Sure. The guy calls up the nurse who notes he is having deleted from the file and says things like "I'm gonna be rich" and "When is the bitch gonna die?" That's believable.
From another thread from another poster:
She was fired in 1996 for, among other things, claiming that another nurse at that facility was killing patients; her claims about Schaivo were reported to the police and they investigated and found NOT CREDIBLE
RN 3155902 SAUER,CARLA ANN Registered Nurse LAKELAND
Wouldn't this be her?
Wouldn't this be her?
It looks like it is. When I looked it up last October I was probably checking under the last name of Iyer.
From Post 1:
1. My name is Carla Sauer Iyer. I am over the age of eighteen and make this statement of my own personal knowledge.
2. I am a registered nurse in the State of Florida...
Make that, "When I looked it up in October of 2003..."
Time flies.
What is the problem with you? Why are you skeptical? You’d rather starve a person to death. It’s clear as the day light: this Michael-dude DOES NOT NEED her any more. He has another family de-facto, he wants to kill her to be free. Besides for those you …: it has bees signed in August 29 2003! NOT last week! That’s why this is TRUE.
Just wait until people like you with low IQ will be considered “brain dead” so we could starve YOU to death. Believe me it’s coming, it was already implemented many times during the history (but you don’t know that because you are brain-dead), the last time it happened in Germany…
CARLA ANN SAUER
LICENSE NUMBER: RN3155902
Profession
REGISTERED NURS
License/Activity Status
This is from the florida health license look up very medical license. This thread may be very old and someone already found this ,but WHO EVER was sayong before that the documents were bogus ...Ummm ,you need to check your sources!
If someone were to be unplugged from a ventilator ....that allowed them to breath and be kept alive ,would it be okay if they went ahead and put a pillow over their face to expedite the death?
In Terri's case ,the court has ruled that she has her feeding tube removed... A person who is not brain dead ...reacts to family members ,performs maneuvers that a neurologist has testified to ...I myself have seen the video where they ask her to open her eyes on command ..terri not only opened her eyes ,but raised her eyebrows so high ..LETTING us all KNOW ..HEY I am IN HERE ..please know it !
This is devastating...
My point about the pillow ,goes along with the medical order's to expedite terri's dehydration ..explicit instructions are to :
Dress her in turtle neck sweater, couderoy legging's ,2 blankets wraped tightly! Scoplamine ( ANTIHISTAMINE to futher dehydrate her ... swab her mouth regularly to get rid of any saliva... ( MY GOD) !
Now if you haven't seen the rest of the medical instructions for her death ...save yourself ..and just try not to read about it ..grusome!
A thought to think hard about ..IF Terri's condition was caused by a miocardial infarction due to her bullemia and the bullemia cause a severe electrolyte imbalance and thus a drop in potassium so signifigant that she went into cardiac arrest because of a heart rythum irregularity caused again by lack of potassium .......... And WA LAH ..this happened OVERNIGHT! WHY in the HELL has she not gone into CARDIAC ARREST RIGHT NOW or int he last 11 days with no food or water or the previous times they tried to kill her this way!
The medical literature states that it is an EXTREMELY rare occurence for someone to suffer cardiac arrest due to aonerexia and even rarer for BULLEMIA ,because anerexic's starve themselves and bullemic's merely eat and drink large quantitie's and then purge ..and not everything goes...Some is saved ,especially fluids which act the the kidney's at a faster rate then digested substance's!
I do not beleive for one minute her condition was caused by her bullemic state ...and no medical records have shown Terri suffered a heart attack all test for that were negative ..troponi will tell you if someone has had a heart attack and I am sure that test was done immediately and it was negative ...furthermore ..the heart muscle will be damaged to a signifigant degree if it lacked blood supply long enough ...now supposedly she lacked blood supply so long that her brain is dead now ,but her heart which was without oxygenated blood for that time period as well, still functions normally ???? The heart is a muscle ,if it lacks oxygenated blood for a signifigant period of time, the muscle will die and it will show signs of death by decreased ejection fraction ...you can see this muscle on an echocardiogram very clearly ....people who even have blocked coronary arterie's and they aren't even 100% blocked will show damage to the muscle and terri has no muscle damage ...but severe brain damage? PLEASE!
A cat scan of the brain was performed on Terri early on ...which is about as good as an xray for diagnosing disc problems in the neck or back ..MRI'S are needed for many reasons in this case ..why hasn't one been ordered and demanded to be done ..
If michael gets away with this ...as it looks like he will it will all have been witness to public murder
and all LEGAL.... Now if that's not progress for the system ,I don't know what is.
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