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Schiavo-like Woman in Recovery Miracle
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/13/200909.shtml ^ | Newsmax

Posted on 05/14/2005 8:33:55 AM PDT by Bigh4u2

Schiavo-like Woman in Recovery Miracle

A severely brain-damaged Kansas woman who couldn't talk or feed herself after a car accident two years ago has inexplicably regained those abilities, confounding the predictions of doctors.

Tracy Gaskill, 30, began speaking and swallowing about three weeks ago, family members and medical personnel told the Associated Press. Gaskill had suffered head trauma and internal injuries after her car rolled over on a highway in September 2002.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; braindamage; coma; differentcase; donaldherbert; fluidskull; irrelevant; letterrigo; notthisagain; schiavo; schindler; scottthomas; shesdeadjim; terrischiavo; terriscult; tracygaskill
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To: TAdams8591

Terri no doubt is in a better place. However, she should have went there on a full stomach.

God blessed this country with fertile soil and plenty of food and yet another human being was ordered to be starved to death. I still find that unbelievable, inhumane and uncivilized.


101 posted on 05/14/2005 12:58:10 PM PDT by pickyourpoison (" Laus Deo ")
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To: Future Useless Eater

** Holy cow! That Jacksonville man, Scott Thomas, is just as much in grave danger as was Terri. **

He is definately in danger. Let's hope the police do their job and keep the wife away from him. Too bad Greer didn't remove guardian rights from Michael Schiavo like he should have. I shudder to think of what Terri endured at the hands of that monster for 15 years.

I wish someone would get ahold of the video shown on CNN during the killing of Terri. It was taken in 2001 or 2002 and showed her feeding tube sticking out of her bare stomach. She was moving her head from side to side, with a terrified look in her eyes, with sweat on her forehead. Michael Schiavo appeared by her side and began to lean over her.

I'll bet the video was made the first time Terri's feeding tube was removed. Schiavo would have been responsible for allowing that video to be taken. Guess he didn't give a rip about Terri's privacy then. Does anyone know how to request a video from CNN? I was shocked when I saw that video and only saw it on CNN. There were other here on Freepers who saw it too.

One can only imagine the horrible things Michael was telling Terri as she lay there helpless, unable to defend herself. Terri was able to try and communicate and I know that she was aware of what was happening to her. Only a fool would ignore all the evidence and support what Schiavo/Felos and Greer did to her.



103 posted on 05/14/2005 1:09:55 PM PDT by Pepper777
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To: gopheraj

Well I don't know how many of us have money, I don't. Still feeding kids 8^).

We do have the internet, we can make calls, etc. In the end it didn't help Terri because the judges were all doing their own thing.

We must keep on doing what is right and demanding it of our officials.


104 posted on 05/14/2005 1:11:34 PM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< Impeach Judge Greer http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html)
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To: tutstar
because the judges were all doing their own thing.

Bought and paid for by the managed care interests and the long term care insurance industry.

It's not about the philosophy of Felos and judges. It's about money! Every patient that can be starved saves hundreds of thousands of dollars for them.

105 posted on 05/14/2005 1:35:34 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: amdgmary

thanks amdgmary


106 posted on 05/14/2005 1:48:20 PM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< Impeach Judge Greer http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html)
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To: pickyourpoison
Agreed. It was the ultimate in barbarism and a most violent act. No different than cultures who routinely instituted the practice of leaving sickly babies on mountains and in the wilderness to starve to death. Also, no different than Hitler's treament of the disabled, and eventually, millions of people.

I removed my American flag from the front porch the day Terri died. It will remain down for a long, long time. This is no longer the America I know and love.

107 posted on 05/14/2005 1:59:31 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Terri Schindler was NOT in coma, JUSTICE was.....)
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To: amdgmary

Oh, no. How dreadful.


108 posted on 05/14/2005 2:02:07 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Terri Schindler was NOT in coma, JUSTICE was.....)
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To: amdgmary
"I believe that there is a heaven and that’s where Terri Schiavo is going to go and that’s a trip that’s long overdue”, King said." /Senator James King of Florida.

Who do these people think they are?

109 posted on 05/14/2005 2:10:21 PM PDT by TAdams8591 (Terri Schindler was NOT in coma, JUSTICE was.....)
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To: amdgmary; texasflower; EternalVigilance; cpforlife.org
Mrs. Thomas, however, has reportedly stated that her intention is to move her husband to the Community Hospice of Northeast Florida and seek the authority to direct the removal of his gastric feeding tube, causing his death by dehydration and starvation. ... According to Ms. Patton, her son speaks a limited vocabulary, gives affirmative and negative hand signals and has successfully answered questions of where he lives, where he attended school and his situation. She states that he is aware and oriented.

But, but, but ... the 'kill Terri because she's not there' crowd has told us that the Terri Schiavo execution won't have any impact on future disposition of 'PVS' diagnosed patients.

110 posted on 05/14/2005 2:14:42 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: MHGinTN; amdgmary; tutstar

separate front-page thread started for Scott Thomas - jacksonville resident whose wife wants him starved to death

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403250/posts

Schiavo Foundation Urges Wife of Disabled Jacksonville Man to Err on the Side of Life


111 posted on 05/14/2005 2:20:42 PM PDT by Future Useless Eater (formerly FL_Engineer) (It was wrong to kill her. No other "facts" matter.-JimRobinson)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I'm really tired of the pro-death Greer Republicans who keep coming on Terri-like threads disguising their resentment at not having their ideas accepted as concern for FR.
112 posted on 05/14/2005 2:26:17 PM PDT by k2blader ('Lost' ping list - Please FReepmail me if you want on/off. :-)
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To: Bigh4u2

Thank you for posting this. :-)


113 posted on 05/14/2005 2:27:04 PM PDT by k2blader ('Lost' ping list - Please FReepmail me if you want on/off. :-)
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To: gopheraj

I agree and don't have the resources to fight for their loved ones rights.
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Hey Gopher... let's sue the ACLU so we can obtain those resources, eh ???


114 posted on 05/14/2005 2:27:20 PM PDT by GeekDejure ("That may be too late!" -- Laura)
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To: MHGinTN
But, but, but ... the 'kill Terri because she's not there' crowd has told us that the Terri Schiavo execution won't have any impact on future disposition of 'PVS' diagnosed patients.

Yep. Slippery slopes are hard to get off of...

115 posted on 05/14/2005 3:26:02 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("We, the people, are the...masters of...the courts..." -Abraham Lincoln)
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To: tutstar

You're right. No one would have ever known about Terri if not for the internet and the wonderful people who helped her family.


116 posted on 05/14/2005 3:52:51 PM PDT by gopheraj
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To: GeekDejure

Yeah, if only. LOLL They need a little kick in the butt anyway.


117 posted on 05/14/2005 3:55:22 PM PDT by gopheraj
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To: amdgmary

Please do not post from the Empire Journal, which has complained about use of its material.


118 posted on 05/14/2005 4:47:13 PM PDT by Admin Moderator
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To: MHGinTN

First of all, I'm not in any "crowd". Secondly, this has been going on for a long time, just as I said on the other thread.

I also said that in most cases these decisions were made out of love, but there are obviously bad people in this world.

Terri's death and the agenda driven on BOTH sides, are looking for stories like this, just as they are looking for stories of miraculous recovery.

Just because things are suddenly being noticed, does not mean this hasn't happened before and won't happen again.

This is NOT new.


119 posted on 05/14/2005 5:36:14 PM PDT by texasflower ("America's vital interests and our deepest beliefs are now one." President George W. Bush 01/20/05)
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To: k2blader
I'm really tired of the pro-death Greer Republicans who keep coming on Terri-like threads disguising their resentment at not having their ideas accepted as concern for FR.

I think many true conservative, God-fearing people agree with you.

120 posted on 05/14/2005 5:49:23 PM PDT by Netizen
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