You think Mrs. Schindler was grandstanding when she wanted to wet Terri's lips?
Yes, though I sympathize with her plight, I believe Mrs. Schindler was in obvious denial where her daughter's condition was concerned, and was in an understandable desperate rage about what was happening. That doesn't change whether it was appropriate.
"You think Mrs. Schindler was grandstanding when she wanted to wet Terri's lips?"
Gee, you think she might have been able to try that while her husband was holding a cellphone to Terri's ear for a hour each day working with Dr. Joe Champion ?
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/Terri_live.htm
"... And so was Schindler. It was part of a covert rehabilitation program the desperate father ..."
Some water on a towel would not seem too hard to bring in if you had a hour a day for a "covert" program.