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To: jwalsh07
(s)he was 5'3" tall and weighed 120 pounds when the incident occurred. Not exactly emaciated

I have read elsewhere that when she was much younger that she was very much overweight (don't recall a figure, but was left with the impression that it was 40-50 pounds heavier than the 120 when the incident occurred).

So, how come the records indicate she has a healthy heart? Is that aquestion that should be answered?

I have not seen her records, so I don't know if this is true or just more wild speculation.

However, I've had two heart attacks myself (the first a major one where I was in a "code blue" condition and had a "near death" experience - the second was somewhat less severe). I had "about 5% heart damage from the first one and and undetermined amount of damage from the second one).

However, my EKG's show a "normal heart function". According to your comments, Dr. Baden, looking only at my EKG results might argue that I never had a heart attack. I can assure you that he'd be quite wrong in that assessment.

29 posted on 10/26/2003 3:31:45 PM PST by Normally a Lurker
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To: Normally a Lurker
Heart attack patients, as you well know, get cathed. If Terri Schiavo was never cathed, she didn't have a heart attack. If she was cathed, the ventriculogram will evidence damaged heart muscle or not.

The author of this article can not know any of those answers and neither can anybody else because MS will not release her medical records.

Like you, I've been cathed numerous times. I am also pretty conversant in the anatomy of the heart, though I am not a Doctor or a nurse, because I have spent my career installing, repairing and instucting cardiologists and technicinas on there proper use and abuse.

It's obvious that her heart stopped beating for from 6-8 minutes because she suffered a lot of brain damage. I'd be interested in why it stopped beating. I'd be even more interested in why MS did not call 911.

31 posted on 10/26/2003 3:39:25 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: Normally a Lurker
If a potassium level problem stopped Terri's heart, then there wouldn't be anything damaged in it. It sounds like your heart attacks happened because of coronary artery blockage.
38 posted on 10/26/2003 4:25:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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