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Good post.

Actually the only evidence was a speculation that the low K was caused by bulimic vomiting. Terri had lost a hundred pounds in high school before she met her husband using Nutri system with a dr's care. She lost more after the marriage but her weight and height were normal.

I have been wondering about the high glucose. All I can figure out is the paramedics started an IV of glucose.

I heard MS say he had no idea Terri had bulimia, no idea. Given his controlling behavior, how would he not know.

Fractures of the ribs at the vertebral junction werre said to be secondary to CPR. Not so. Those ribs were fractures on the back of her chest. With CPR, the anterior ribs are fractures. I suggest the ribs and T7 were fractured by the foot and body weight of a very angry MS. And she couldn't breathe.

I have been wondering about the high glucose. All I can figure out is the paramedics started an IV of glucose.
I am not a doctor, nor do I play one on the internet.

But one doctor who was willing to speak out, suggested that if Terri had been injected with insulin before or during her collapse, the medics who responded would have found her glucose level to be virtually nonexistent and they would have given her glucose enroute to the ER accounting for her very high glucose reading on admission.

This in retrospect is strikingly similar to what Terri's nurses reported after several of Michael's visits to the nursing home, where they suspected he was injecting Terri with insulin during his closed door visits.

I have been trying to read about insulin poisoning and it seems possible to this layman that a side effect of insulin given to people without diabetes, is that it causes abnormally low potassium (hypokatemia)- it draws the potassium into cells or something. Maybe a medical person will read this and comment.

One case of insulin poisoning I read about the murderer experimented over a period of time by injecting his victims with various doses until he determined what level would cause the final effect he sought- unconciousness, helpessness, finally irreversible coma. I understood it is a VERY rare crime and the symptoms would mimic many other problems if not suspected.