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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I am a Registered Nurse and I lost my last job for speaking out against the management where I worked because of what I considered negligence in the nursing home on the part of certain employees. They tried to trump up charges against me and eventually told me they were going to terminate me. So I ended up quittng. Medical facilities are so short of help that they will settle for anything, even incompetent nursing staff, and to keep them, they will lie for them and tolerate almost anything in the work place.
If you want your job in a nursing home, and even some of the better hospitals I have worked in, you will keep your mouth shut and look the other way.
I cannot live with my conscience under these circumstances so I have left the profession altogether.
You must be nuts. He went to court to kill her. That's proof.
He spent HER REHAB money to pay for lawyers so he could KILL HER.
Then why prolong everyones suffering? She will not recover, accept it. She is rotting away, costing everyone around her heartache, suffering and alot of money, and costing us taxpayers money, that includes rising health insurance costs.
It depends on your definition of "talk". Terri was far from articulate and eloguent, but the testimony and other reporting I have seen stresses that she had at least 4 or 5 "words" she could say. They were not completely distinct, but were used consistently in the same situations. It's like talking to a 1-2 year old... It takes a little interpretation, but the consistency of the word formation is the key.
Yes I would trust Terri's nurse with my life, because I can read a dishonest nurse from an honest one. The truth always prevails in the end.
Would you kill off all people that are paralized and can't recover into fully active people?
Sheesh, I cannot believe the horribly evil people coming out of the woodwork on FR.
BUMP
gee whilickers, you repeat verbatim what is on that website. hmmmmm, gullible.
Describe me, magic girl, what I am like as a person.
The only reason she is rotting away, as you put it, is because her husband is squandering the millions of $$ awarded her for rehab. You apparently have not done your research, so maybe you should refrain from your absurd comments.
The only one suffering, is Terri, who is starving to death. Prior to that, she was being fed.
Who are you to play God? Are you a fully active woman? Beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder.
Then they should CLAIM she makes consistant sounds - not words.
Describe me, magic girl, what I am like as a person.
There are no millions to spend.
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Let's stay on topic or you won't be posting here much longer.
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