[T'wit]

As I've said, I don't believe she was completely blind. There is a wealth of testimony about her tracking people or objects (balloons) that would be almost impossible to account for if she had been totally blind. Had that been so, she would have had to be extremely good at tracking sound. Not likely.

Dr. Thogmartin's case, simply put, is that the "visual" area of the brain was gone. Ergo, she was blind. That is a reasonable conclusion but it is not a certainty. There are two exceptions, also reasonable. 1) Individual physiology differs a great deal. What is generally true in neurological science may not be true for the individual. 2) The same science recognizes that injured brains have some capacity to shift functions -- vision, in Terri's case -- to other areas of the brain. This is not yet well understood, but it is well recognized.

I'm not a medic, so if I'm in error about any of the above, maybe some Freepdoc can give us any correction needed.

Whatever the brain function was in her case, Terri's ability to see up to a foot or a foot and a half is, imo, very well documented.

[blueriver]

As I've said, I don't believe she was completely blind.

I am not a Dr. either but she was either blind or she was not blind, if the report says she was blind, with no visual ability then that does not mean she could see a little. Someone needs to clarify how she could be blind according to this report yet was able to track balloons and was able to be given a diagnosis of PVS based on her lack of visual contact.