1) Terri received many years of physical therapy, occupational therapy, and rehabilitive care without any improvment in her condition. Why do you think she was on a 'feeding tube' to begin with. She has no ability to swallow independently.
2) An autopsy would demonstrate what areas of the brain were damaged and to what extent. It would even show whether or not CSF and scar tissue had replaced the areas of her brain allowing her to feel pain, talk, and have cognitive abilities. The autoposy would provide data that a MRI, CT scan, or xray could not.
Terri's husband spent $100,000 have thalamic stimulators implanted in her brain in an experimental effort restore her brain activities in the early 1990's. Does that sound like a man who was disinterested in his wife's rehabilitation?
Did you bother to read the article I referenced? Not only that, in the early 1990's, who would have ever imagined 60+ year old women would give birth to babies? Medical science is not static, and new technologies are coming on line all the time.
Was that before or after they got the $1 million settlement? If before, that would be the kind of thing that a plaintiff would do to inflate the settlement. You generally ask for about 3 times the meds, plus, in this case, future loss of income, plus, future meds. So, plaintiffs lawyers pull out all the stops to get high medical bills since they get a 3-fold return on them.
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Should Michael Schiavo be arrested on conspiracy to murder and have his guardianship immediately revoked?
Time is running out. Schiavo will most likely be arrested..why wait til after Terri dies..why not now and remove guardianship. The media needs to push for his arrest on the evidence that is now appearing. Why was not closer attention given to this case..on the evidence out there in the last year! Has the much of the media been negligent on reporting this case "with new eyes" before it was and I hate to use the word "was" too late.
I have gathered this below briefly from http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/michael_schiavo_1.html
Bloggers have been reporting on this case and correlating evidence for some time now...! ....should Gov. Bush's next step be an arrest warrant?
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There are also affidavits by a number of people as to physical threats by Michael Schiavo including his stalking of the first girlfriend he had after the attempted to murder Terri.
There is also a sworn affidavit from a nurse from 1996 that Michael attempted to murder Terri five times in a nursing home by injecting Terri with straight insulin. When the nurse went to the local police, she was fired the next day. This affidavit has been around for awhile and the nurse was on the Hannity radio and TV program yesterday.
Michael Schiavo's former girlfriend speaks: Excerpts From Cynthia Shook's May 8, 2001 Deposition given in fear
Excerpts; May 8, 2001 Deposition:
Cindy Shook describing Schiavo’s possessiveness.
http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/michael_schiavo_1.html)
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"About a year and a half ago, I worked two 40 hour wknds(!) up all night in the offices of the (former) lawyer for Terri's parents. I was able to read most of the files on the case. I was there when two former nurses phoned (separately and entirely of their own volition)and asked to come in and give an affidavit about what they knew. They said they could no longer keep silent, though for years they were so intimidated by Michael Schiavo, they were afraid to speak up. I was there when each of them, on their own, arrived in the garage of the office building. Both of them looked around to make sure they were not being followed! Both of them described hideous behavior over the years by Michael Schiavo. They described his phone calls (especially when she had an infection and he forbade antibiotics) asking the nurses "Is the bitch dead yet?" and his boasting of how he was going to spend the money he would get after her death. Weeks would go by when he would not visit at all. Once he received the million dollar settlement, he forbade Terri being taken outside in a wheelchair for change of scenery and fresh air. He forbade music on her radio. He had her personal effects removed from the room - all visual stimuli. Her parents and siblings were not allowed to visit her and could not read her chart. One of the nurses talked about his visits to Terri when he closed the door and was alone with her. When that nurse entered the room after he left, she found Terri shaken, trembling and pale and looking as if she was in a diabetic crisis. Terri has no blood sugar problems due to her regulated diet, but seeing her distress and the appearance of diabetic crisis, the nurse gave her a glucose test anyway and the numbers were so skewed that it was clear Terri was in insulin shock. The nurse gave her a shot to alleviate the diabetic shock and immediately suspected Michael had injected her during his visit to cause this. I believe she said this happened at least twice. The nurses also described taking care of Terri and how when she had menstrual cramps she would curl up and put her hands on her tummy (she was able to move them in those early days before the atrophy progressed due to Michael forbidding therapy)and clearly say "Pain!" or "Pain!" and call for her mother...More.... (Posted by: Rohana | March 17, 2005 01:37 PM
http://hyscience.typepad.com/hyscience/2005/02/michael_schiavo_1.html)
"Did you know that George Felos has a book about Terri already written and ready to publish as soon as she dies? George Felos was on the Board of Directors (cannot recall if he was chair or owner) of the hospice where she was kept. He resigned his post to avoid the scandal of that connection being made?".... (from Rohana | March 17, 2005 01:37 PM POST...link above)