Posted on 03/20/2005 6:03:40 PM PST by FoxPro
It's done as a symbol of asserting superior power. It has no functional aspect.
These names will be remembered for years, just like those who opposed impeachment. The Dems who voted yes (thank goodness for them at least tonight) won't really be remembered, nor will those who voted no, since ghoulish behavior from ghouls is to be expected.
It's symbolic to remove the tube. If it's been in awhile, the hole stays open for weeks...patients pull them out accidentally all the time, and they get clogged and have to be changed monthly.
The REAL question is that if she didn't "want" A TUBE, Why didn't they just start her on a dysphagia rehabilitation program? Most feeding tubes are placed for convenience, because it might take an hour to feed her properly
If she couldn't swallow, she wouldn't swallow saliva either...which is why the average life span on feeding tubes is six months...you die of aspiration pneumonia.So in the elderly with severe strokes or Alzheimer's or parkinson's disease I tell the family it's up to them: The feeding tube won't prolong their life, but they will die more comfortably-- their nutrition is better, so they die fat (well nourished) instead of dying thin with bedsores (bedsores are much more common if malnutrition occurs),...
Most patients I have treated with feeding tubes were for convenience, so they could live at home in retarded kids, or after a stroke. Usually they eat in addition to being tube fed, because they LIKE to eat...the fact that Terri has not had proper rehabilitation speaks loudly that they wanted her dead...and indeed, she was placed in a hospice, which is NOT where one places brain damaged people...
LOL, he's got the fires of hell in his mouth Phil!!
Her name "flaglady" is believed to refer to a Scientology organization.
All references to a flag are figurative.
I second your Amen
AM more concerned that she has some kind of protection....Her husband has the knowhow and motive to hurt her.....Will someone please keep him away from her tonight and tomorrow...(If not permanently)
*snort* Who said they don't have a plan?!?
Add Art BEll as being for Terry.
The husband's already on tape stating that he didn't know what she wanted - but this was what he wanted.
Salamander,This week I will watch and it is time for me to watch.What I watch a few people hear but I watch in meditation only .
outFREEPINGstanding, topher.
"so you were ecstatic when the supremes made legal abortions the law of the land................?"
Were you ecsatic when the Supremes stopped the ballot counting and allowed Bush to become President in 2000?
I'm still trying to catch the latest about her fever, and about Michael banning her family from visiting her again. Do you know the latest on those reports?
I wish they were as concerned about saving the lives of the unborn that will die of abortion in the coming weeks and months and years.
Thank you.
Fattah voted yea, I'm gonna faint!
See Post #2415. This is roll call results. Maybe Admin Moderator could put in body of article -- if that is your desire. But maybe that is a dangerous precedent and a lot of work for our overworked Admin Moderators.
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