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After 20 Years in 'Vegetative State' Woman Wakes
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| Feb.11
| Gary McCullough
Posted on 02/11/2005 1:02:21 PM PST by TBP
Sarah Scantlin was knocked into a coma by a drunk driver 20 years ago has begun to speak and remember her past. Her brain was injured so badly that doctors first feared she would spend her life in a vegetative state, spending years unable to form words or make any sounds other than loud cries.
A week ago Sarah began speaking and doctors have no explanation.
The parents, brother and sister of Terri Schindler Schiavo hope the Florida courts will see this miracle and think of Terri.
Video tape shown today on CNN Headline News of Sarah with her mother is extremely similar to footage of Terri and her mother. Both daughters were unable to communicate in words. Both were labeled as severely brain damaged.
Bob Schindler, father of Terri Schindler Schiavo says, "In light of the miraculous awakening of Miss Sarah Scantlin in Kansas and the success of the new brainwave test reported in the New York Times this week, my daughter deserves to have this test before she is starved to death by judicial decree."
Terri Schindler Schiavo's parents will be traveling to Hutchinson, Kansas to meet Sarah and her family.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: coma; giannajessen; health; medicine; pvs; sarahscantlin; scantlin; schiavo; terrischiavo; vegetative
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To: bjs1779
So you compare the fact at one point I thought Al Gore might win the election with calling somebody I don't know a murderer. Maybe on your planet.
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posted on
02/11/2005 7:29:32 PM PST
by
Hildy
( To work is to dance, to live is to worship, to breathe is to love.)
To: Hildy
So you compare the fact at one point I thought Al Gore might win the election with calling somebody I don't know a murderer. What?
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posted on
02/11/2005 7:42:09 PM PST
by
bjs1779
(Terri is a witness to a possible ongoing homicide attempt. She should be put in protective custody.)
To: BykrBayb
I do think Michael is afraid of what she'll say if she's ever able. I think it would be consistent with the medical reports suggesting she was asphyxiated.
Regardless of how she was injured, we agree upon whom its seens was responsible. I was under the impression that her wounds came from a fall down the stairs. BTW, the ones you mention concerning her parents intentionally choking her are truly sick.
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posted on
02/11/2005 8:27:02 PM PST
by
tang-soo
(Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
To: tang-soo
Yep, those comments were particularly bothersome. We've gotten all sorts on the Terri threads.
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posted on
02/11/2005 8:51:52 PM PST
by
Ohioan from Florida
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
To: Hildy
There is no money left.How can you be so sure? Do you know for a fact that there is no 'death' insurance policy that he will get, as long as he stays 'married' to her?
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posted on
02/11/2005 9:26:04 PM PST
by
UCANSEE2
(sH)
Goodnight Terri bump with a prayer!
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posted on
02/11/2005 9:55:33 PM PST
by
Ohioan from Florida
(The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.- Edmund Burke)
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