The very court document you sourced, stated she had lost 65 pounds a few years before the collapse.
Anyway, that does not matter.
Some of the blood work suggests bulimia.
Yet some does not. The timing of the collapse, causes a bit of doubt to the bulimic scenerio. Mikie says that he heard a "thump" at 6 am. Usually a call will come for a patient who has expired in the night, and have been found in the morning. Most bulimics/anorexics in this condition have already been in treatment for their disease, and have already had a history of medical problems before a collapse of this type. And the heart damage is evident forever.
Also, a bulimic almost always has other OCD habits. Terri does not seem to have that history.
A history of low potassium will cause brittle hair and nails and evident dry skin. These were not the case in Terri's history.
What did your friend's husband say about the blood pressure? It was very low. Did your friend's husband talk to the doctors to find out if it was high before the collapse? Low Potassium causes High Blood Pressure.
The other blood work, and the history does not seem to correspond to the eating disorder diagnoses either.
I do not pretend to know more than a doctor, but I am an EMT and have seen many things---but never this type of brain damage in a heart failure from Anorexia. The Anorexic/bulimics who I have witnessed were very skeletal. They either are not resusitated, or they are revived. No brain damage. They usually have a history of diet pills too. Terri did not.
I have seen brain damage from diabetics who collapse, though. It was the first thing I thought had happened. Especially with a blood sugar that high.
This is a dramatic event on a healthy girl. There is no evidence of a cardiac arrest on Terri's serial Ekgs or in her blood work. The heart arrhythmias seem to be secondary to the brain hypoxia. What caused the hypoxia? What caused the neck injury? What caused the blindness in her eye? The damage to her knee, femur and back?
The EMT's on the scene felt the situation was fishy, so they called the cops. They witnessed Mikies demeanor and his lack of assistance to Terri--and thought something was wrong.