excellent article!!
Terri Schiavo not a ‘vegetable,’ frequent visitor tells Witness
By JONI B. HANNIGAN
http://www.floridabaptistwitness.com/3950.article
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Tom Brodersen, husband of Pat Anderson, a former attorney for the Schindler family, told Florida Baptist Witness Feb. 24 he believes the result of Michael’s pursuit of Terri’s death and his encasement of her in a Clearwater hospice where people are sent to die, has left her lonely and without stimulation.
“She married the man for love and she lay there all alone while Michael took his love down the street and lavished it on another woman,” Brodersen said. “Somebody younger who wasn’t disabled.”
“I was struck by how lonely Terri is,” Brodersen said. “She is shockingly lonesome.”
It didn’t take him long to help Terri develop a moan that would be long and drawn out and a moan that would start and stop. One long moan for “yes” and two for “no” he said.
“I started out trying to have her hold a moan like she would hold it when singing,” Brodersen recalled. “You have a beautiful voice, I told her, to encourage rather than discourage. With a little prompting she would hold the note.”