Peach, I think all simple rehab efforts were stopped by Michael including keeping her from getting contractures from lying in bed.
And I think the docs recommended the stimulator be removed from her brain, the doc who put it in in California did from what I read, and M refused.
And swallowing therapy was thought to be of help and again refused.
This woman may have no prayer, indeed she has no prayer of a normal life but it seems just humane to keep trying to keep her from deteriorating. She is not comatose, is not in a PVS and is no worse off than a retarded kid with CP. It just doesn't seem right to starve her just because she is in bad shape when MS has so much suspicion attached to him. And I suspect the money issue, the parents wanting money, had more to do with MS living with them for a couple of years and money needed to care for her than some money hunger these people had.
I don't know about what is true here with so much stuff written, but if her parents will care for her and love her and MS has a new family, why not err on the side of that plan?
Every single doctor who has attended her with the exception of two doctors the Schindlers brought in have said she is PVS.
The two doctors were thoroughly discredited in court. They could not find credible doctors and so used these guys who other doctors completely discredited:
Dr Hammesfahr
- an alternative medicine neurologist
- He's the one who made the 4 hour video exam we see 4 minute snippets of
- who said she wasn't pvs even *before* seeing her that one, and only, time
- his testimony under oath and his public statements contradict each other.
Maxwell (an elderly radiologist):
- He couldn't tell the difference between coma and PVS, or give the descriptions of them - he just said she wasn't.
- He was there only to say he thought hyperbaric treatment (never used in a case like this before) could help, and that he thought there was improvement in her brain density on the scans. But it was clear there wasn't - just newer, clearer resolution and less grainy because the old image was "blown up" in size.