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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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KEYWORDS: allterriallthetime; braindamage; coma; differentcase; donaldherbert; fluidskull; irrelevant; letterrigo; notthisagain; schiavo; schindler; scottthomas; shesdeadjim; terrischiavo; terriscult; tracygaskill
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To: HairOfTheDog
While Gaskill's case doesn't parallel the late Terri Schiavo's exactly - Schiavo was in what some experts said was a persistent vegetative state for 15 years - ...

Yeah, but that won't stop the medical experts here.

21 posted on 05/14/2005 9:02:54 AM PDT by RGSpincich
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To: MizSterious

You're right.

Like I said, the comparisons are going to be unavoidable.

Even if the cases aren't 'exact'.


22 posted on 05/14/2005 9:05:00 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: HairOfTheDog

Wasn't worried to begin with.


23 posted on 05/14/2005 9:05:31 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: WVNan

It probably already has been sent to him. Freepers who were in contact with him re Terri received the article as soon as it was posted.

Sen Jim King is my senator. I wonder if he'll have a big dramatic display for the public on this man's case like he did in the senate when they were debating a bill that would have saved Terri.

I've sent the article link to the news media in Jax, so we'll see if they make an 'attempt' to report on it. They are so disgusting imo, they do local stories but rehash AP articles on other stuff.


24 posted on 05/14/2005 9:08:08 AM PDT by tutstar ( <{{--->< Impeach Judge Greer http://www.petitiononline.com/ijg520/petition.html)
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To: tutstar

Thanks. I hope some are in contact with M.F. It makes me sad to know that Sen. King was so deeply involved with Terri's case. He should have recused himself. Sad that he's a Republican too. Must be a real RINO. BTW, this man's case should be under investigation by the Attor. Gen. Why on earth would the law drop this when there was so much evidence?


26 posted on 05/14/2005 9:17:58 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: Clara Lou; tutstar

Hammesfahr had written a complete report concerning the Schiavo case in September, 2002, revealing that medical tests conducted after her collapse did not show evidence of a heart attack as had been claimed.

Back to the heart attack nonsense. Schiavo experienced 'cardiac arrest' which is not the same thing as a heart attack. From Hammesfahr's report:

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.

Link

Why even bring up the heart attack business? Unless, of course, the writer is trying to distort a situation? Or doesn't have sufficient medical background to even be writing articles of a medical nature in the first place?

27 posted on 05/14/2005 9:18:49 AM PDT by elli1
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To: Donnie Donovon

She was not dying and to cause her death was to usurp her Maker's authority. Dangerous thing to do.


28 posted on 05/14/2005 9:19:23 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: Donnie Donovon

More nonesense from the death-cult, I see.


29 posted on 05/14/2005 9:20:30 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: elli1

Distortion is what some of these people do best. Whatever it takes to promote their agenda of killing off the disabled and elderly.


30 posted on 05/14/2005 9:21:50 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Donnie Donovon

So does that mean they should have let this woman 'die peaceably' too?

"Sarah Scantlin, 38, unexpectedly began recovering from a severe brain injury that left her speechless and unable to feed herself for 20 years."

If I recall this case, doctors also said she was in a 'persistive vegatative state'.

Who, other than God, has the right to decide when it is your time to die?

Because Florida had a part in their law that said a feeding tube was 'artificial'?
A 'supplement', by the way, that was 'added' to allow people like Terri to be put to death, because it was an 'oversite' when they wrote the original law.

What's next?

Air?


31 posted on 05/14/2005 9:22:40 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Donnie Donovon; tutstar
"There were close to 21 trials over this..."

But only one where the facts of the case were heard. The rest were rubberstamping the original hearing.

32 posted on 05/14/2005 9:23:45 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Bigh4u2

Wait until the elderly find out this is the way the 'Rats plan to "fix" social security--after 60, no more food, water or air. Problem solved. AARP, beware.


33 posted on 05/14/2005 9:26:12 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: Bigh4u2

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1401378/posts

More in this other thread from a few days ago.


34 posted on 05/14/2005 9:26:37 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: MizSterious

My comments were directed to the article linked in Post #7.


35 posted on 05/14/2005 9:26:57 AM PDT by elli1
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To: MizSterious

Actually, they weren't even rubber stamping the original hearing, but the judicial 'procedure'.

No facts, either about the case OR the hearing, where heard in the appeals process.

Never are.


36 posted on 05/14/2005 9:27:24 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Netizen

Thanks.

Did a title search but didn't turn up any other articles.


37 posted on 05/14/2005 9:28:35 AM PDT by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: Clara Lou

I read that he was nominated.


38 posted on 05/14/2005 9:28:43 AM PDT by Netizen
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To: MizSterious

I know you said that in jest, but you know what, it may not be far from the truth. Consider that the generation "in control" of the national media (propaganda-thought shaping mechanism)is the "God is dead" generation.


39 posted on 05/14/2005 9:28:59 AM PDT by WVNan
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To: MizSterious

Very true. At least there is a happy ending, unlike this other thread:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/backroom/1402851/posts?page=173

Ms Martin – who served nine months of a 15-month sentence for giving her terminally ill mother an overdose of morphine and then suffocating her with a pillow in 1999 – said the decision to switch off her brother's ventilator was a totally different experience.


40 posted on 05/14/2005 9:30:20 AM PDT by Netizen
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