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.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Maybe someone can talk to Michael Schiavo and Judge Greer so they can go up there and kill her. She should be dead.
If only Terri had been given the chance, who knows?
Reads like some sort of sub species.
I'm sure her first words were "If only I were married to Michael Schiavo."
I hope the ACLU vigorously appeals her decision to recover. She has clearly inifringed upon her own right to die and been denied the euphoria of starvation.
bttt
http://www.theempirejournal.com/514054_cognizant_jacksonville_ma.htm
EXCLUSIVE!!!!!!!!!
Cognizant Jacksonville Man in Life and Death Tug-of-War
bttt
Hammesfahr should really insist that people, including reporters, etc., cease referring to him as a Nobel Prize nominee. It must be embarrassing for him since he isn't a Nobel Prize nominee.
I'm really tired of medical threads posted for the sake of making them about Terri.
Then don't read them.
Pretty simple, huh?
Thanks for posting it.
The mother of a friend at our church was declared brain-dead and hopeless by (I'm told) either 5 or 6 neurologists. They were literally hours away from removing the feeding tube, breathing device, everything -- and she came to. Opened her eyes, started interacting, responding to questions. Still distance to go, but she's back. It is, by all I've heard, genuinely miraculous.
"Who knows?" indeed.
Dan
You're welcome.
I'm interested in medical stories, I just wish every thread didn't try to re-hash Terri Schiavo. Every case is different, and they deserve to be thought of as real people, not 'terri-like people, OK?
Does anyone have the link to the story about a man that doctors said was like Terry Schiavo, who after 10 years woke up and is talking and walking? Just happended a couple weeks ago...
So should everyone just stop posting these cases because you feel uncomfortable about it?
Well,unfortunately, (or fortunately,depending on your point of view) all medical cases that are similar to Terri's will make the comparison,because Terri's case has now set the standard.
It may be something you don't like, but it's going to be unavoidable.
Can you figure out a way to get that article sent to Mark Furman? There is some info there that he can use to help make his case in the Terri S. case.
Forget it. Don't worry yourself. Nevermind.
One suspects that there are some guilty consciences involved in these complaints: every time another person (not vegetable, please note) starts regaining faculties, it's a reminder that maybe Terri shouldn't have been killed.
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