"Impression:
"The patient is not in coma.
"She is alert and responsive to her environment. She responds to specific people best. She tries to please others by doing activities for which she gets verbal praise. She responds negatively to poor tone of voice. She responds to music.
"She differentiates sounds from voices.
"She differentiates specific people's voices from others.
"She differentiates music from stray sound.
"She attempts to verbalize.
"She has voluntary control over multiple extremities
"She can swallow.
"She is partially blind
"She is probably aphasic and has a degree of receptive aphasia.
"She can feel pain.
"On this last point, it is interesting to observe that the records from Hospice show frequent medication administered for pain by staff."
Because the press doesn't want to let us know things like this, otherwise they can't sway public opinion to agree to things like death by dehydration. Sometimes I get a bit upset when I think of how much Terri could do, but it was not enough for the death doctors.
As Mikey and the Spinsters tried to describe the "euphoria" enjoyed by Terri, supposedly feeling no pain and enjoying, to the pleasure of the ghouls, the fun of dying, the staff administered morphine in the last days.