...even if the pathology report stated that her optic nerves were damaged or had died, it didn't state when the damage occured.
Please read the report. It isn't so much her optic nerves, but the "higher function" part of the brain that processes images. Without this, it's like a telescope that no one is looking through. Also, it takes time for a tissue to atrophy, and time for one type of cells to be replaced other types. As an analogy, for someone who died recently, you don't even have to be a pathologist to tell the difference between a years-old scar on the skin and a cut that's about a week old.
We know that dehydration can cause alot of damage to a body. I think it's abundantly clear that some of the damage that was reported at autopsy can be directly connected to the dehydration.
Please provide links to credible medical sources to back this up. Otherwise, I'm out of this conversation
We were talking about the optic nerves, not a higher function part of her brain.
I'm not going to do your work for you. You're allegedly a doctor, you should know what dehydration does to a body or have the resources to look it up. There were links on the Terri threads.
I'm glad you're out of this conversation, you don't seem to belong in it.
From what you've mentioned, it seems that this case is very different from your husband's. Your husband was dying. You could have hooked him up to every machine in the world and they still wouldn't have kept him alive.