Participate in Terri Schiavo's Birthday, December 3, With prayer, Mass Intentions, Cards and Notes

Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation ^ | 11.21.03

[Coleus]

REPOST WITH CORRECT ADDRESS FOR THE HOSPICE-please ping your Terri lists

From www.Terrisfight.org

Terri's Birthday:

Terri's Birthday is December 3rd. So many people have contacted us, recently, to ask how they may participate. We are so delighted that so many people want to help Terri enjoy her special day and we appreciate the kindness that people have shown to Terri.

Because Terri's husband does not permit her to have flowers in her room, we ask that you consider doing something else that would be as meaningful. Here are some things you can do:


If you can come to Florida, please join us in wishing Terri a very happy birthday:

Hospice Woodside
6774 102nd Avenue North
Pinellas Park, FL
33782-2909, US

You can send a card or a note to us at the foundation. We will deliver them all to Terri.

If you've placed a light in your window for Terri, please send us a picture.

Terri adores animals. If you have a picture of your favorite pet, feel free to send it along!

Terri enjoys music. Piano music, John Denver, Journey and Wham! are just some of her favorites. Since she has a CD player in her room, a CD would make a great birthday gift.

Terri enjoys lotions and nice-smelling things for her skin.

Would you like to send a personal message to Terri? Tape record your own message and we'll play it for her!

So many people have already sent a prayer to Terri on our Share a Prayer page. We read these to her as often as we can. Be sure to include yours.

Terri's husband does not permit her to receive physical therapy, but "stress balls" are great for relieving the contractures in her hands.

Prayer is also a good gift, please remember Terri in your prayers


The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation
4615 Gulf Blvd.
#104-103
St Pete Beach, FL 33706

1,107 posted on 11/18/2003 2:03 PM EST by wisconsinconservative ("The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.")

Please if you are Catholic have a Mass Intention for Terri on or near her Birthday, December 3. 

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Today's Update

Terri's Birthday is December 3rd. People have asked how they may participate. Find out here!

Family attorney, Patricia Anderson speaks to Glenn Beck about this case.

Terri's Law Who is Terri Schiavo?

[Cayenne]

This waiting is like waiting on news from relatives up at Lake Woebegone.

[wisconsinconservative]

WorldNetDaily reported Sunday over 500 e-mails had come to the family's website offering prayers, words of encouragement, poems and even a couple of jokes. They were submitted with the promise that Terri's family would read each one to her.

''When people learned her birthday was coming up, they just started sending notes and cards and e-mails,'' Hennessey told WorldNetDaily. These have been arriving daily at the headquarters of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation in St. Petersburg.

Mary Schindler sticky-tacked some of the cards on the walls in Terri's room earlier in the week, but they were promptly removed.

Schiavo also does not permit flowers in Terri's room.

"The family's not giving up. They're going to try and do nice things for Terri," Hennessey said.

What a petty excuse for a man Michael Schiavo is! I would guess the only thing he allows to adorn her room is a lovely urn he had prepaid from her rehab trust.

[pollywog]

I will wait here with you and msmagoo

Well now if this isn't the coziest!!!We will patiently wait here...!

[pollywog]

Where did the HINO hide them?

Good question.... in Greer's courtroom? That seems to be a " safe" place for MS to hide everything else!

[pollywog]

Well ping me if there is any news from the hospice front !I must do dishes!

[msmagoo]

Mary Schindler sticky-tacked some of the cards on the walls in Terri's room earlier in the week, but they were promptly removed.
Schiavo also does not permit flowers in Terri's room.

He is beastly, period. I will not speak of him on Terri's Birthday thread. I just hope he didn't try to ruin her party!

Will ping you pollywog, when they 'report' back :)

[wisconsinconservative]

sorry msm and polly...(shuffling my feet) didn't mean to bring the party down....


HAPPY BIRTHDAY TERRI!

[Ragtime Cowgirl]

Happy Birthday, Terri!

 

           

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Thank you all for being there for Terri and her loved ones.

 

Prayers continued.

[msmagoo]

Don't worry, you didn't. The thought of that controlling HINO tossing away Terri's cards makes me ill. A 'model husband' he's not!

[Cayenne]

Finally! Sanity In The Schiavo Case!
By Al Ruechel | 12-03-03
Several weeks ago, when I asked attorney Pat Anderson what she thought of a new court appointed guardian for Terri Schiavo she was extremely skeptical. “I’m not happy with his background in end of life issues. I just don’t feel comfortable,” she told me outside the Hospice center where Terri is being cared for.

Today, Anderson should thank her lucky stars. Dr. Jay Wolfson may be the guardian angel everyone has been praying for, or at least that’s the way it appears to me. He’s not God and he’s not hell bent on being a martyr for the Pro-life movement or being an advocate for the right to die. He is an extremely intelligent man, a doctor and a lawyer, who has put together a gutsy plan that could resolve this issue maybe once and for all.

Wolfson was appointed by a Pinellas county judge to serve as Terri’s guardian ad litem after the legislature decided, in clear violation of the constitution, to create a law that gave Governor Bush the authority to re-insert Terri’s feed tube. A teaching professor at no less than 3 of the state’s medical colleges, Wolfson jumped in with both feet. He exhaustively reviewed all of the court records and rulings from more than 19 different judges who’ve presided over parts of this incredibly complicated mess for the past ten years. He also masterfully waded through all the publicity and hype and legislative posturing. And, most amazingly, used his powers of perception to sort through the spinning both Michael Schiavo and Bob and Mary Schindler have been involved in from day one.

On page 37 of his 42-page report released Tuesday in Pinellas County, he is blunt. At times neither Michael Schiavo or the Schindlers acted in the best interests of Terri. “As a consequence of this circumstance, extensive urban mythology has created toxic clouds, causing the parties and others to behave in ways that may not, in the order of things, serve in the best interests of the ward.” In short, as I have written before, there is no evidence that Michael is in it for the money, or that at any time he actually abused Terri and seeks to hide it. There is also no evidence, as Michael has contended, that the Schindlers are willing to do anything, including cut off Terri’s limbs if necessary to keep her alive.

Throughout the report Dr. Wolfson documents that all of the legal actions thus far taken by Michael are firmly rooted in case law. Terri IS in a persistent vegetative state and is unable to take nourishment by mouth. Any hopes of a miraculous recovery are based purely on undocumented and nonvarifiable opinions of those on the medical and scientific fringe.

However, having stated what should be the obvious to anyone who has truly followed this case and not the hype surround it, Dr. Wolfson says, in order for Terri’s interests to be represented additional testing MAY be in her best interests.

To quote again from page 37 of Dr. Wolfson’s report to Governor Bush: “Until and unless there is objective, fresh, mutually agreed upon closure regarding measurable and well accepted scientific bases for deducing Terri’s clinical state, Terri will not be done justice. There must be at least a degree of trust with respect to the process that the factions competing for Terri’s best interest can agree. To benefit Terri, and in the overall interests of justice, good science, and public policy, there needs to be a fresh, clean-hands start.”

I hope you can set aside your emotions in this case long enough to understand the wisdom in this statement. This isn’t about Randal Terry and the Pro Life movement. This isn’t about how many e-mails talk radio can generate on behalf of a woman nobody even heard about one year ago. This isn’t about trying to create a Frankenstein out of her husband. This isn’t about pulling a tube and starving someone to death. This isn’t about a bunch of come-lately lawmakers trying to score a few points and votes in their upcoming run for the senate. This is about establishing a process that will fairly and accurately establish Terri’s medical state once and for all.

Now here’s the little tidbit of new information in this case. Dr. Wolfson, again in his wisdom, attempted to resolve this issue with a memorandum of understanding that spelled out in detail how this matter of Terri’s medical condition could be resolved. In short, Dr. Wolfson would be granted the authority to exercise his judgment in assembling a panel of independent experts to scientifically evaluate ALL aspects of Terri’s condition. All of their findings would be kept from the public. Both parities would agree on a set of standards of interpretation before the tests are conducted. All of the costs associated with this extensive evaluation would be paid for by the state since this action was initiated by the state. Both parties would request the Court accept and honor this understanding in the interests of justice. And finally, if both parties still can not agree on the information gathered and presented the good faith process could be abandoned.

Sadly, this sane process was rejected by both parties and the Governor just hours before the document was to be signed on November 30th. Michael Schiavo doesn’t want to give up because he’s convinced Terri wants to die. The Schindlers won’t agree to abide by the results of the tests because they want Terri alive, period. The Governor understands politics and this case is a huge vote getter. He wants full control and a win. Let’s face it. No one gives a whip about Terri, it’s all about agendas.

So who is looking out for Terri Schiavo now? Is it possible that a man, a stranger, who has no interests in this case other than seeing justice done, is the only one whose vision for Terri isn’t clouded?

To his credit, Dr. Wolfson has asked to remain as Terri’s guardian ad litem hoping the courts may allow some limited testing. There’s a good bet he’s also praying the courts don’t declare Terri’s law unconstitutional. If they do, all this work is for naught.

Dr. Wolfson is a man of science and compassion who understands what’s truly at stake here and understands his charge. No, it’s not public policy or warring family or political factions. It’s a 39 year-old woman who lies in a bed trapped by her disabled body, trapped by the uncertainty of no written directive, trapped by the lawyering that, with the advent of the legislature and the Governor, could drag on for years and years leaving Terri, in Wolfson’s words, “in the continued netherworld of the unresolved.”

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Al Ruechel, Copyright 2003, All Rights Reserved

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[Cayenne]

Sorry, that was suppose to be posted on the daily thread. Can we get it moved?

[msmagoo]

That's a great article, thank you! It renewed my hope that things will work out for Terri and her family. Add the article to the other thread here.

[cyn]

HI! It's so good to see you all here! I'm not sure how much longer I can "wait up" for news from the party, lol. I'm trying to balance my "need to hear all about it" with my need to be a responsible adult! I just hope they've had a most excellent evening.

The news of the cards being removed and flowers not being allowed shows the stark difference in viewpoints: one that wants GOOD and beautiful things for Terri, and one that ... doesn't. How will that play to the rest of the world, the pettiness of taking sticky-tacked cards off the wall of patient?

Miss you, Republic, & hope that all is going well for you. I pinged you to a nice singing kitten Cayenne posted on Terri's birthday card thread. ;o)

[Cayenne]

Done.

[cyn]

Why not post it to its own thread? Do you have the source info to post as well?

[pollywog]

Now here’s the little tidbit of new information in this case. Dr. Wolfson, again in his wisdom, attempted to resolve this issue with a memorandum of understanding that spelled out in detail how this matter of Terri’s medical condition could be resolved. In short, Dr. Wolfson would be granted the authority to exercise his judgment in assembling a panel of independent experts to scientifically evaluate ALL aspects of Terri’s condition. All of their findings would be kept from the public. Both parities would agree on a set of standards of interpretation before the tests are conducted. All of the costs associated with this extensive evaluation would be paid for by the state since this action was initiated by the state. Both parties would request the Court accept and honor this understanding in the interests of justice. And finally, if both parties still can not agree on the information gathered and presented the good faith process could be abandoned.

Somehow this paragraph just doesn't "smell right"!!! Anyone else agree?

[Cayenne]

cyn, I have no idea how to post it to its own thread. Can you post it? The source is http://www.glennbeck.com/al/index.shtml

[wisconsinconservative]

That must be some b-day party! Looks like no one made it home yet.

AS much as I'd like to hear how it went, it's time to head off to bed.

Night all!

[JustPiper]

As hundreds of well-wishers across the country mark Terri Schiavo's 40th birthday with cards, pictures, music CDs and prayers, the legal battle over whether it will be the brain-damaged woman's last birthday takes another turn.

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