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Die-man and Starving's-fun-shill
Posted on 04/06/2005 5:03:58 AM PDT by johnny7
Her husband said under oath that she did not suffer from a eating disorder, early in the trial.
Shorten your nomer to just 'Aleck'.
Do you now? Inside and out?
Well if you want to shift what appears to be MURDER to death-by-bulemia, then you should answer the following (but won't, as you ignored the previous post)
What are the cause of bulemia?
What electrolyte disorders (and range of kalemia) result
from the range of bulemias?
And please tell us FReepers whether your information is from your interviews
or standard medical/surgical literature.
Let the Furies descend.
:-)
Let'em squirm!
Die-man and Starving's-fun-shill
My co-worker's daughter has an eating disorder. It's supposed to be hell on your bones. If Terri had an ED bad enough to bring on a heart attack (and that's a BIG IF), then it's plausible it could have weakened her bones as well.
All the binge foods and sticky toilet seats. Long trips to the bathroom. My sister was 5'6" and down to 85 lbs and could still point out how fat her forearms were.
The irony was, I was the fat sister. From age 7 to 16 I was taken from one doc to the next and put on all kinds of meds to make me lose weight (none worked). Once I understood what my sister was doing, I even tried..but couldn't develope bulemia (by the Grace of God). It's always been curious to me that in a time period where society was aware of eating disorders, no one close to her caught on. Yet I also read that when Terri fell in her kitchen, Michael didn't attempt CPR, which even the untrained will attempt in an emergency.
Are you comparing Terri to a murderer? Why?
Terri ping! If anyone would like to be added to or removed from my Terri ping list, please let me know by FReepmail!
First of all, it's spelled bulimia, not bulemia.
Bulimia has its roots in psychological stressors. Superficially, a bulimic wants to lose weight because she or he thinks they're overweight. But it has deeper causes. In general, bulimics feel they have no control over their lives or their bodies. Or they have problem with feelings of anger and don't feel they can express it. On the outside, they are smiling and act perfect and can fool people for a long time - they present a picture that nothing is wrong. A woman who became the first person at my college to become a Rhodes Scholar was bulimic. Another woman I know did indeed die from being bulimic. She was 23.
The binge/purge cycle is addictive and it also becomes a weird way to manage anxiety and rage, and also to distract yourself from it. Ultimately, at some point, your life becomes all about getting the next "Fix" or binge/purge.
Some people also binge/purge through overuse of laxatives. That can really deplete you of potassium. There was an article in New York Magazine last year about a woman who took 100 laxatives a day and died from potassium deficiency.
Anyway, if you want to read more about it, just google "bulimia" (not "bulemia.")
One last point - if Michael Schiavo was as controlling as everyone says he was, it would make sense that Terri would become bulimic. Her body was the one thing he couldn't control. Also and I don't know if this is true- I read that he said if she ever got heavy again, he would leave her.
I'm not blaming Terri for her bulimia. I feel sympathy. It's a horrible horrible disease.
How about 1.3 million proofs?
Those statistics are amazing! While I've certainly known nice male nurses, I have noticed how some of them seem to turn into angels of death. Thanks for the info!
There's no particular reason to think she had an eating disorder, either -- at least not for some years. The reason for the "eating disorder" story is that it's about the only alibi available for the only suspect in a probable case of domestic violence.
And, please note that the bone scan reported "trauma," not bone disease. It wasn't from dieting, it was from brutal force.
Speaking from experience, when a woman takes on a husband (who values and equates "thinness" to "prettiness") she instantly took on (back then) housekeeping, cooking, grocery shopping, laundry, ironing, dishwashing, adjustment to a sex life and a husband's wishes in that department, AND a full-time job outside the home depending on how good a provider she had. All that is enough to make a woman lose weight and keep it off real easy. - Terri wasn't skinny when she married him. In fact, he seems to have been the only one who just happened to remember stuff about Terri years later, after the fact.
So her parents didn't know she was bulimic, her husband didn't know it either, or her friends, but the author of this piece of crap does??
And as Christine Hoff Sommers has pointed out in her books, bulimia death figures in the U.S. are completely cooked by politically correct feminists and their statisticians. Read Joyce Maynard's memoir "At Home in the World" (or Jane Fonda's new book) and see how she spent most of her life as a bulimic - without managing to drop dead of a heart attack.
Michael Schiavo, 1/2000 Direct Testimony: states bulemia was never proved see p 27. (large file)
Terri did not have a heart attack.
Michael's hired physician, Bambakidis, testified Terri never had heart attack
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