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I used to visit this young man at a nursing home. He had cerebral palsey. Couldn't walk; couldn't talk. He was smart and used to go by motorized wheelchair to COLLEGE!!! One morning they found him dead in bed. What happened was those beds, you know the bars to keep people from falling out of bed, well, his head got stuck under the bar and the mattress and he couldn't breathe. Everyone was in shock. It was so sad.

Think how awful to be so weak and vulnerable and you can't fend for yourself. Same with Terri. She depends on those around her to be kind and loving and supporting AND JUST LOOK WHAT THEY HAVE DONE!!! I hate it that she's still in that hell hole of a hospice!

Everytime I hear of abuse and neglect in care facilities, my blood runs cold.

There was a time when families lived close by, giving support to both young and old. I've seen friends paternal & maternal grandmothers in rented hospital beds in the family dining room - no place else to put them. And it's not such a bad idea when one considers the interaction, rather than shoving them off into boredom of a strange room with strangers in & out.

Same with my son a twin bed with rails cannot contain someone with severe CP.

We use a King water bed.

He tried some independant living but it was to unsafe.

I have a twin bed set up next to his bed so if he pulls the sheet over his head, trach he has someone to rescue him.

Can't wear shirts to bed I use small baby blankets to cover his chest with flannel lounge pants and the mist and o2 machines keep the room warm along with his studio light above the bed.

People just don't get! Round the clock care means around the clock. Literally.

The trolls are part of society that will never get it.

They themselves are termeninal. Reminds me of liberals and the density of their ability to understand simple issues.

Praying for Teri.

I don't know about other careproviders around FR but hanging out on Teri threads is very painful and incites such anger.

Hope Teri is doing well.

This is all her guardians doing as so many of these cases.

I do not ever see this case as a "slippery slope" regardless of the outcome because their are so many of us who support and care for the severly disabled that we would kick ass when it comes to our loved ones.

Evil will never outweigh all the good careproviders.

Don't make me go manic on your candy asses. I would defend my son and that means I would hurt anyone who messed with us all in self defense of coarse.

Hang in their you guys.