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I can accept what you say as valid. About bone bruising, etc.

What I find hard to swallow, is why Michael got on the phone with her brother for an hour before calling the paramedics.

Why he stated when this first occurred (in reference to her possibly not recovering any further) "I don't know what to do, Terri and I never discussed anything like this".

The moment he got the INSURANCE PROCEEDS, he stated that "Terri said if she ever got like this, she would want to die".

Why he refuses to divorce Terri, why he is living with another woman, why that woman has her own INSURANCE COMPANY, and is there a policy on TERRI under that company?

Why he refuses to let her have rehabilitative therapy, and has refused so ever since he got the INSURANCE PROCEEDS. Why he refuses to allow the parents to videotape her, anyone to videotape her.

Why Terri often undergoes the symptoms of INSULIN OVERDOSE after each of Michael's 'private' visits?

Why nurses who 'discuss' Terri's responsive actions are FIRED.

Answer these questions, and I'll have a much better feeling about the analysis you give.

"Answer these questions, and I'll have a much better feeling about the analysis you give."

Thanks. =] But even if the answer to each is that he was an opportunistic ass, or that he neglected Terri since he got the $, (and I believe he has), it wouldn't change the facts of her collapse to mean he caused it.

I can accept what you say as valid. About bone bruising, etc.

Thanks. : ) I'm just clarifying what the radiologist said he saw, and what the medical records say about her condition and what caused it.

What I find hard to swallow, is why Michael got on the phone with her brother for an hour before calling the paramedics.

He didn't. Her brother lived right by them and came over.

Was it stupid to call her dad instead of 911 first? yup.
But let me ask you this: If he tried to kill her, why call anyone at all so soon?

He could have just gone back to bed and "found" her an hour or two later when she was totally gone.

Why he stated when this first occurred (in reference to her possibly not recovering any further) "I don't know what to do, Terri and I never discussed anything like this".

Maybe it's true that the subject never came up and he's lying now.
Maybe it only came up watching that movie, and he knew it didn't really apply to her situation.

The moment he got the INSURANCE PROCEEDS, he stated that "Terri said if she ever got like this, she would want to die".

No... it was ~5 years later. Before that, Florida didn't even allow feeding tubes to be removed, so it wouldn't have mattered what he said she said she wanted.

Why he refuses to divorce Terri, why he is living with another woman, why that woman has her own INSURANCE COMPANY, and is there a policy on TERRI under that company?

I think he refuses to divorce or give therapy to Terri
a) to spite her parents, and
b) because he fears that if she ever got therapy and improved, he'd have to admit that he neglected her all these years.

I have no idea if they have a life insurance policy on her anymore. Though the legal costs seem to make it a better idea to just wait, it could be a factor.

Being a sick opportunist doesn't make the "he assaulted her" theory any less full of holes.

Why he refuses to let her have rehabilitative therapy, and has refused so ever since he got the INSURANCE PROCEEDS.

His stopping therapy and refusing to give her more is wrong, and why I don;t support him. But it still doesn't mean he caused her collapse and is afraid she'll tell.

If he was afraid she'd tell that he caused her collapse, why did he get her pretty damned good therapy in the years before he even got the $?

He could also have had her plug pulled while she was in a coma and on the respirator.

And remember, under Florida law, he also **could have had her feeding tube removed without ever going to court.** He *chose* to let the court make the decision, taking the chance that they'd decide against him, or force him to give her therapy, just so her parents would not put the blame all on him.

Why he refuses to allow the parents to videotape her, anyone to videotape her.

I'm sure he hates when her parents use tapes against him in the court of public opinion.

I'd also say that there's a slight chance he actually believes the doctors who for years have told him those are just reflexes, and thinks the tapes are being misinterpreted at the cost of Terri's dignity. If my husband allowed tapes of me like that, I'd haunt him forever.

Why doesn't he show tapes of her being unresponsive? Even her parents' doctors say that she only intermittently shows a reaction. He could easily show the segments of those tapes where she's not reacting at all, even to her mother, as the court saw.

Whatever the reason, still doesn't change the facts of her diagnosis, or mean he caused her collapse.

Why Terri often undergoes the symptoms of INSULIN OVERDOSE after each of Michael's 'private' visits?

"Often" and "each" are exaggerated. There were some times a nurse thought he had injected her, or at least got her so shook up her blood sugar took a serious dive. He could have wrongly, stupidly, and ineffectively given her insulin hoping to end the whole thing.

Why nurses who 'discuss' Terri's responsive actions are FIRED.

There is a nurse (2?) who claims that happened to her.

But in all these years, Terri has had dozens and dozens of caretakers. ~4 have stepped forward to say they saw signs of her communicating.

I do not believe for one second that *all* of those other nurses have been silenced in fear of their jobs. Too many of them. Could be they don't see anything, could be that they don't think it's significant, could be they are biased.

Anyway... whew.

Bottom line... lol

You don't have to give up any of your other ideas about him to look at the pieces of her collapse and see that the assault theory just has too many holes in it, while the diagnosis made by the hospital and confirmed at trial makes perfect, consistent sense.