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Hi there! Best place to start is www.terrisfight.org

That's where you'll find "Basic Terri" and more. Meanwhile I'll try to sum it up.
Terri was alone with her husband when she collapsed in 1990, of unknown causes. No heart attack, but she was without oxygen for about 10 minutes. This caused severe brain damage. Her husband got a malpractice award from her doctors, for not diagnosing a potassium imbalance. Very soon after he got the money, specifically awarded for her care and therapy, he ordered NO rehabilitative therapy.
He tried to refuse her treatment of infections, too, so that she might die. Then a few years later he claimed to remember that Terri had said she wouldn't ever want to live with artificial life support, and he began trying to kill her legally. He calls this "letting her die."
Terri is not on artificial life support. She has a feeding tube in her stomach, nothing more. Her husband will not allow anyone to try to teach her how to eat by mouth, although she obviously has some swallowing ability.
The court has allowed her husband to kill her ("let her die") although she is NOT dying. The money awarded for her care has run out, a good portion of it gone to pay lawyers to achieve Terri's death.
Her parents and siblings love her and want to take care of her, and are trying to stop her husband from killing her. They say Terri can benefit from therapy; they believe that Terri's husband may have caused her condition; and they say his guardianship of her has been characterized by abuse and neglect.
Her husband says she is totally oblivious, unconscious, irreversibly brain-damaged, but has a right to privacy that protects her right to be killed, as he claims she wanted.
Terri left no written instructions or medical directive about her wishes. Her parents and friends don't believe the husband.
He has a "fiancee" and two children by this person. When he started trying to get Terri killed, he stood to inherit a million dollars by her death (her award money). Those who believe he caused her condition, think he wants to make sure she never learns to talk again.
He has gotten permission from the court to have her immediately cremated after death. Medical records indicate she had a lot of physical damage, including bone fractures, on admission to the hospital in 1990. Nobody knows how that happened.
He refused to take a lie detector test suggested recently on Larry King Live.
Hope that helps!

Graymatter, MSLD*

*Michael Schiavo Lie Detector :)

Terri is in a cerebral palsy type condition. Lots of disabled people are. She's been denied rehabilitation and JUDGES, HUSBAND AND EVEN THE MEDICAL COMMUNITY except for her doctors (who are not permitted to see her) WANT TO KILL TERRI SCHINDLER-SCHIAVO.

She cannot speak so her husband would ask us to believe that means she'd rather be dead than continue living which she's been doing since she collapsed 13 years ago.

Terri understands jokes, likes to listen to music, interacts with her mom and her brother and cries when her sister leaves.

THIS IS A MURDER IN PROGRESS. That's why we asked freepers to help us with PUBLIC AWARENESS and with calling our leaders and law enforcement. WE AREN'T DONE YET because THEY STILL WANT TO KILL TERRI.

Terri's retained rights are thrown into a ditch and hubby wants direct cremation, the sooner, the better.

Keep in mind though, people in the Beltway are following Terri's situation. The Feds could or may get involved if they're not already. If Terri is murdered, an investigation would mean nothing after the fact.

She is not PVS, nor comatose.
She is brain damaged and disabled.
She is alert, aware, and responsive to most forms of stimuli.
She swallows and handles her own secretions well.
Latest CT scan from 02 shows improvement.
Dr. Maxfield trained at Baylor and Johns Hopkins. Worked at Hopkins and Oschner Foundation, and head of radiology dept at LSU. 49 years as a radiologist.

He testified that Terri has brain tissue in all major structures of her brain. Says the most severe damage is in her occipital region and probably her eyesight is affected. Says it is possible for her to retain memories, as she still has tissue in that part of her brain.

And finally, he detects a change FOR THE BETTER between her 96 and 02 CT scans, which he attributes to the body's natural tendency to heal itself. Can brain tissue regenerate? YES!

Thus sayeth Dr. Maxfield, the most qualified of all 6 docs to read those scans.

And Felos says she has nothing in the cerebral cortex. No wonder the medical records are sealed.

She has never been in a coma. She was labled PVs by the courts, and some of the FLA lawmakers think they need to redefine the current staus or medical definiton fo PVS, that is in part how Terri's Law was passed. Some Docs are now calling her CP. Cerebral Palsay, according to the parents. Some witness say she is responsive, some say she isn't. The problem is the husband who wants her dead, has another family and gets life insurance, the lawyer with the right to die agenda and theri docters say she is not. The family who wants to care for her , nurses who have cared for her and the families docters say she is responsive.

The husband will not allow anyone to examine her or give her terapy tofind out exactly.

Can you pls tell us in simple, plain English what this is about? Is she responsive in a coma, or vegetative, or what? Plain, simple English pls, for those of us who are not Catholic and don't want to click on 12 separate links? THANKS

She is not comatose. She is not vegetative. She is alert, aware, responsive, brain damaged.
Her husband wants to kill legally, by having her declared vegetative, and by the fact that she is totally dependent upon a G tube for nutrition and hydration.
It has taken 10 years for this case to make front page news in this country.
The judicial system has failed Terri in protecting her rights as a disabled American. Law enforcement has failed to protect Terri by not investigating her condition upon admission into the hospital. The hospital has failed Terri by neglecting basic aspects of treatment and care due to threats and intimidation from the husband. Fl Supreme Court has failed Terri by faling to hear the case before this, and the only reason they are taking it on now, is because the ACLU is suing JEB Bush. The husband has failed Terri by abuse, neglect, and failing to provide appropriate care as a guardian. He goes free.
Is there anything else I may expound upon?