Posted on 03/22/2005 10:15:00 AM PST by ALOHA RONNIE
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NEVER FORGET
Reprinted from NewsMax.com Tuesday, March 22, 2005 9 a.m. EST
Terri's Former Nurse Accuses Michael Schiavo From April 1995 to August 1996, Carla Sauer Iyer was one of Terri Schiavo's caretakers at Palm Garden in Largo, Fla.
This morning on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" program, she gave a frightening account of Michael Schiavo's actions and words, and also a hopeful description of Terri Schiavo's condition at that time. Ms. Iyer said that Terri could: Interact with staff. Laugh. Talk - saying words like "mommy," "help me" and "hi." Let you know if she was in pain. React reflexively on command. Interviewer Steve Doocey asked Carla why, in her opinion, Michael Schiavo was not telling people this. She answered that she believes "he wants her to die." Doocey then revealed that Carla was fired from the care facility because of a disagreement with Michael Schiavo in an incident where she claims he injected Terri with insulin. Ms. Iyer said that after Michael visited Terri one day for about 20 minutes, with the door shut, she went in after he left and saw Terri sweating, lethargic and "crying hysterically." Carla checked Terri's blood sugar, and it was barely reading on the glucometer. She also saw a vial of "insulin concealed in the trash bin." According to Carla, there were needle marks underneath Terri's breast, under her arms and near her groin. Carla talked to the police and then went to the director of nursing, who was very upset that Carla had gone to the police. She doesn't think Michael Schiavo was a caring husband and claimed to Fox News that he refused to send Terri to rehabilitation of any kind. Doocey then said that he had heard a story from another nurse who tried to feed Terri, and when Michael Schiavo found out about it, in Doocey's words, "it all hit the fan." Carla concurred, saying that Terri could be fed by mouth - jello and pudding, etc. - without aspirating, but that when Michael found out Terri was being fed by mouth, he told the nurses he was going to get them fired. Doocey then asked Carla why she was coming forward now. She answered that she wanted "to let the truth be known. I was one of the very few people who was able to see Terri. She would interact with all the visitors. ... I want everyone to see Terri."
NEVER FORGET
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Yes, this has been in litigation for years, BUT...
The way I understand it is that Judge Greer made an INITIAL finding to declare her PVS (years ago). Since then, despite the legal maelstrom, none of it has addressed the rightness or wrongness of the INITIAL finding of PVS, just other legal mumbo-jumbo.
If SOMEHOW the Schindlers can have that finding reviewed, that might pave the way for a reversal.
"The government shouldn't be involved!" Well, they didn't much mind when the judiciary was involved and SUPPORTED pulling the tube, only when congress got involved saying they shouldn't pull it.
"Her husband knows what she wanted!" And yet he didn't mention these wishes until, what, years after she got sick? And since when did a guy who's got a girlfriend and kids on the side equal the loving husband--is one who is an adulterer considered a great husband? I'm not religious and think if people want they can get a divorce from someone, but since when is adultery and having kids with someone else while still married in ANY definition of being a faithful husband? And why can't he just let the parents take over her care and go live his new life?
Plus, didn't he sue for over a million dollars which he said he would use to care for her for life? I imagine the defendent in that case will be filing a suit of their own after this.
"She shouldn't be kept alive by artificial means!" Food is now considered an artificial means?
"States rights!" Since when is it a state-sanctioned right for a husband to starve someone to death when her family doesn't want her starved to death?
"This was her wish!" We've had Living Wills for years. Those who support them, like members of my family, say if you want certain things done when you are in a coma or whatever, make the effort to get it in writing. Simple as that. And this woman didn't.
"Oh, that's just a piece of paper!" Yeah, kinda like a marriage certificate. Kinda like the papers illegal immigrants don't have. So I guess those who dismiss this piece of paper are for just taking the word of any illegal alien if he says he WANTS to be here, and that's all we need for him to be a legal immigrant?
"Big Brother!" Yes, we wouldn't want the government to start getting involved in cases which even the starvation proponents have to admit is anything but cut and dried, which would result in someone being starved to death. I mean, wow, since when is it the government's job to champion people who can't speak up for themselves who are being starved to death.
I'm not demonizing this Schiavo guy, but I have heard multiple sources claiming his wife could react, speak (imperfectly), and that he STOPPED efforts to rehabilitate this woman. So yeah, call me an advocate of Big Brother, I DO think there is a reason for the government to check this out.
I had no interest in this case at first because I thought it was about a woman on life support, and her family wanted her taken off. It was an open and shut case, to me. And then I got informed. And I refuse to be on the side of murdering the helpless. Sorry, call me a nazi; I'd rather be called a nazi by ridiculous libertarians, cranky idealists, and uninformed populists than be wrong about someone being murdered.
Not that I agree with user odoso' statement, but it would appear that WE CANNOT "walk and chew gum at the same time" Evidenced by the 10 million plus illegal immigrants in the US RIGHT NOW!!
I didn't know Conservatives were less gullible - questioners of both sides. How do you know this nurse is credible - I find the statement that Terri could talk uncredible or is that incredible.
Go join the democrats who beleive everything they read. This website was founded to question news sources.
So if we had let Terri die without a fight all these aliens wouldn't be here?
And after he got a huge amount of money in some settlement.
Yes I agree, this nurse loses all credibility with some of her miraculous claims. Next she will tell us that Terri was singing and dancing.
Why can't the public and the courts stay out of this. Let Terri go home and be with her family who is more than willing to care for her. Where is the harm?
hey, Darkwolf - welcome aboard on the right side - you are a Lightwolf - :O)
Evidently you've missed the point. I made no mention of the Terri case, but I do not see the same sense of urgency in the immigration matter as that of the Schiavo case.
Since when was one's "right to die" at issue here? Since Terri never established her intent one way or another in any legal written manner, her "intentions" are nothing more than her husband's say-so... a husband who has plenty of motive to end her life.
Send it to Drudge. Unbelievable.
GOOD one! Much better than my response to his/her asinine post/posture
Isn't this the girl that filed the affidavit making these claims? Heck, well at least she has her story in writing.
Does it have to be "written" to be legal. Or does verbal statment count. I am not saying that Terri ever made this statement, I am merely seeking an answer to a standard question
I see you missed the point as well.
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MICHAEL keeps TERRI's family at bay.
MICHAEL says "When is that B-TCH gonna die?"
MICHAEL wants TERRI to die...
...as he keeps right on making babies with someone else he is now engaged to Marry after his wife is out of the way.
And where's the Harm to TERRI, you ask..?
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I saw her on Fox this morning ... she was being interviewed by video... It was a fantastic interview. Fox tried to contact Michael after the interview, but he declined. Hmmmm.
The bottom line, he 's been trying to kill his wife Terri for a long time, and when this finally hits the courts, look out because if Terri dies, it will not only involve the judges involved, Michael's lawyers, but the cover-up at the nursing home, the Florida Board of Health & Human Services, the police department, and the list goes on and on.
I bet there's a mega law-suit in the making right now.
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