However, Micheal took Terri's engagement ring, a diamond wedding band and made a ring for himself after Terri found herself in a coma.
What happens next is only madness.
A Judge Greer Pro-Death Mystery Thriller...
Posted on 03/27/2005 6:31:02 AM PST by gesully
When did Michael Schiavo first start trying to kill Terri? Mary Mostert March 23, 2005
Because I try to track down facts before I write about a subject, I have not written about Terri Schiavo and the battle over her condition. What actually happened to Terri back in 1990 that caused her to be the topic of world conversation today? Before we decide to permanently dispose of her, shouldn't we first find out how she got into this predicament?
Well, she collapsed, we are told by her husband Michael, in 1990 and was taken to the hospital . Some stories say she had a heart attack. Other stories, including a medical report by Dr. William Hammesfahr, a world-reknowned neurologist, totally refute any heart attack. Hammesfahr reported:
"Ms Schiavo was in her usual state of good health until 2/25/90, when her husband reported that he was awakened from sleep approximately 6 Am by her falling. He reports that she was unresponsive. "Paramedics were called, and aggressive resuscitation was performed with 7 defibrillations en route.
"In the Emergency Room, a possible diagnosis of heart attack was briefly entertained, but then dismissed after blood chemistries and serial EKG's did not show evidence of a heart attack."
Some reports guess that she collapsed due to an effort to lose weight — although, she was not at the time overweight. Hammesfahr's report stated:
"The patient had a difficult hospital course with the development of poorly controlled seizures and prolonged coma state requiring, for a time, ventilator support. However, the staff noted improvement, and it was recommended by several physicians that she be discharged to an intensive rehabilitation center."
In 1992, Michael Schiavo sued for malpractice and won over a $1 million. He was personally awarded $300,000 for his "loss" and $700,000 for Terri's rehabilitation and care for the rest of her natural life. However, the therapy, after the award, was not approved by Michael Schiavo and she was confined to a nursing home after the settlement.
It was after the settlement that Michael first claimed that Terri had previously stated that she didn't want to be kept alive by artificial means — a statement he never mentioned during the malpractice trial. He has never produced any written proof that Terri said that.
Beginning almost immediately after receiving the malpractice funds, Michael Schiavo, as Terri's legal guardian, began to refuse approval for ANY therapy or rehabilitation efforts and she has been confined to bed.
Since 1995, Michael Schiavo has lived openly with a girlfriend, Jodi Centonze, with whom he has two children, while remaining legally married to Terri, as well as being her legal her guardian.
In 1998, Michael Schiavo petitioned the court to have Terri's feeding tube removed. In 2003, Michael Schiavo's attorneys reported that the trust fund was down to $50,000, with more than $430,000 going to "pay for court costs associated with her husband's legal battle to remove his wife's feeding tube." Meanwhile, Medicaid helps to pay Terri's $5,000-a-month nursing costs at a hospice in Pinellas Park, Florida. 13
During this time period, Terri's parents have attempted to gain guardianship over their daughter. During the legal battles that have ensued, in 2003 a deposition was taken from Dr. William Campbell Walker, a radiologist, concerning a bone scan the hospital did on Terri in 1991. That bone scan revealed what Dr. Walker reported at the time as "compression fracture in the 19 vertebral body of the spine."
For seven years as Terri has been consistently denied rehabilitation treatment that, according to several doctors, would have significantly improved her chances of recovery, Michael spent her money awarded for her therapy on lawyers trying to get her starved to death. Several doctors pointed out, including Dr. Hammesfahr, that Terri not only CAN swallow on her own, but frequently DOES swallow and pictures shown clearly indicate, as Hammesfahr and other testify, that she can and does respond to voice commands and particularly to her parents.
This would indicate that she is NOT in what the State of Florida defines as a "vegetative" state. It also makes me wonder, now that the feeding tube is removed, if any effort to help her swallow water or food is being made today, or whether under the court order spoon feeding also has been outlawed? Terri's parents, if they just came and got her and took her home, I guess would be arrested for kidnapping under Florida's legal system.
At this point, the legal system of Florida has, in the words of one legal observer, created the "framework for legal euthanasia." Of course, euthanasia is technically the practice of killing someone painlessly because they prefer death to life for whatever reason. I would not classify starvation as a "painless" way to die.
Dr. Hammesfahr stated in his report:
"In the spring of 2000, three physicians, including Dr. Jay Carpenter, who is a former Chief of Medicine at Morton Plant Hospital, filed affidavits after observing Ms. Schiavo. All three physicians stated that it is visually apparent that Ms Schiavo is able to swallow and, in fact, does swallow her own saliva.
"The patient continued with no physical therapy, communication or speech therapy, or routine medical screening evaluations and treatment such as dental care, mammography, gynecological exams or pap smears during this time."
Under these conditions and questions, it would appear to me that Terri SHOULD have a totally different guardian, such as her parents, until some questions are answered about the spinal and other injuries that appeared on her bone scan a decade ago. Why is it that a man who clearly wants his wife dead, cannot explain how she actually got into the state she is in, or produce ANY proof, other than his unsubstantiated words, that she would want to die, is being unquestioningly defended by the Florida courts?
Increasingly, it appears to me, that Terri would have gotten better care had her husband never won that malpractice suit and been given $1 million to spend — much of it on lawyers to legally kill off his wife.
It all makes me wonder just when Michael Schiavo made his first effort to kill Terri? Was it before or after she ended up in the hospital with an unexplained problem that put her in a coma?
Mary Mostert is a nationally-respected political writer. She was one of the first female political commentators to be published in a major metropolitan newspaper in the 1960s. After working in President Lyndon Johnson's failed War on Poverty programs in New York state, she became a Republican. She ran, unsuccessfully, for the New York State Senate and became campaign manager for a number of candidates. She once served as the secretary of "Positive Action NOW!"--a South African women's group that sought to reduce the hostility among South Africa's various racial, religious, and political groups.
In recent years, Mary has researched, written, and edited articles for national talk show host Michael Reagan's Information Interchange on the Internet, and for The REAGAN MONITOR, a monthly newsletter that provides in-depth information on key issues. Her book, COMING HOME - Families Can Stop the Unraveling of America," was published in 1996 by Gold Leaf Press. Mary maintains a political media site, Banner of Liberty. She can be contacted at mary@bannerofliberty.com . Click here for more information.
Did you think O.J. was innocent?
Does any one know what the malpractice suit was about? I keep hearing that he won the suit but I haven't heard why?
What did the docs supposedly do? Or not do?
I want to see a picture of Michael and his new family plastered all over tv and newspapers.
It's the word legal that is the problem I have. But, you are right, I should not admonish the Bush Bros. I know from your heart that what you say is true and thank you for bringing it to my attention.
If it is legal however, in America to murder by judicial decree, a defenseless disabled woman who may or may not have said that she couldn't bear to live on machines and to please pull the plug, may have not thought about living by needing a feeding tube only, I do think then it is necessary and prudent to get involved.
Today, I heard that they are giving Terri morphine to dull her pain when previously they were telling us she's PVS, a vegetable, brain dead and can't feel a thing, she doesn't know she's being starved and dehydrated to death, so why are they giving her morphine to dull her pain that supposedly she can't feel?
To me, that is substantial grounds to stop this heinous act of murder, and find what is true, otherwise they have lied to us all about PVS, Pain, and Starvation.
Have you checked out his own website? He claims it, constantly.
I titally agree with you on Terris condition, The president did ask that the judges re-evaluate her, the did not, he cannot force them to do it. It is damned tragedy in my opinion. There does not seem to be a solution. I wish the feds could have bombarded the hospital and just take her, but that move would cause so many constitutional problems and further divide our nation.
Yes it is. I used to be 'The Summer Wind', I sort of miss that.
***
The summer wind, came blowin' in from across the sea
It lingered there to touch your hair and walk with me
All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand
Two sweethearts and the summer wind
Like painted kites, those days and nights, they went flyin' by
The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky
Then softer than a piper man one day it called to you
I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind
****
Nice......... be well.
Let me put it this way, I don't care. I really do not care.
I don't want to hear about any "reasoned response", and I don't care about your 4 years on FR.
She is dying. She is being starved to death.
That is all that matters.
They are celebrating over at DU.
Just thought you might feel more at home there.
The only thing that I admit is that you are a disruptor from DU.
Take your tiny little sophmoric pride about how you FEEL you were so successful in your disruptor efforts here at FR and report back to your commie friends at DU.
I pitty you and your buddies at DU.
There you go, letting your emotions take control again. Too bad.
No problem.
Just my way of showing sympathy for you and your kind.
It's the least I can do for the mentally disabled.
Doesn't the judge get to ask questions? Is he limited to what the lawyers present? If so, I'd say our entire system needs a work-over. In the military system, the court gets to ask questions. The court is not the judge, but a panel more akin to the jury.
No reason an autopsy couldn't be done before the cremation. Any unseemly rush to cremate her will only result in even more suspicion of MS's actions.
Unless the local DA, and the state Attorney General are both in the "kill the innocent" party, one of them should be ready with a request for an injunction. If they need one that is. I would imagine that any death "under suspicious circumstances" could trigger an autopsy at the behest of the executive branch alone. Even the local coroner could order one.
Isn't that sweet of him to be so caring? I bet he can't wait to get paid his 30 pieces of silver for getting a healthy non-terminal Terri murdered by judical order and opening up the door to the doctors of death to practice their villany on the aged, the infirm, the useless, the disabled, the defenseless, the unwanted burdens to government welfare programs.
Strange laws we have in this country. Stroke of the pen, law of the land. A little Lanny Davis talk.
This seems like an odd statement, since it is the Republican Governor of Florida who is currently acquiescing (and therefore is an accomplice) in the murder of Terri Schiavo.
Well he WAS. His Congresscritter did it.
There are some things that are so abominable, that to have lack of emotion about them is to exhibit sociopathy.
However, Micheal took Terri's engagement ring, a diamond wedding band and made a ring for himself after Terri found herself in a coma.
What happens next is only madness.
A Judge Greer Pro-Death Mystery Thriller...
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