Posted on 05/25/2006 4:36:16 PM PDT by wagglebee
Responding to reports of a drug that can temporarily revive people diagnosed in a permanent vegetative state, the foundation run by the family of Terri Schiavo is calling for a moratorium on removal of care for people in such a condition.
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation points out South African researchers claim Zolpidem, used to treat insomnia, appears to be effective in restoring some brain function to patients previously determined to be in a persistent vegetative state, or PVS.
The researchers examined the effects on three patients of using the drug for up to six years and found all "were aroused transiently every morning after Zolpidem."
The Schindlers say they pleaded for years with the courts and with Terri's husband and guardian, Michael Schiavo, to try treatments or medicines that could help improve their daughter's condition but were denied.
The family says their St. Petersburg, Fla., foundation has been contacted by dozens of families with similar stories of patients improving significantly after being wrongly diagnosed as being in PVS.
One patient, Patricia White Bull, awoke in December 2000 after being in a PVS for 16 years. She had been given the drug Amantadine, used to stimulate people with Parkinson's disease and brain damage
"Sadly, we will never know if any of any of these drugs or treatments that were available would have improved Terri's condition," the family said.
The Schindlers point out a report released by the British Medical Journal in 1996 found 43 percent of the diagnosed cases of PVS studied were misdiagnosed.
"We at the foundation are seeing that the PVS diagnosis is being commonly misdiagnosed," said Terri's father, Robert Schindler. "Consequently, it has become very obvious we don't know enough about this so-called diagnosis, and common sense dictates that the removal of food and water based on this misclassification must end until further studies can be conducted."
Schindler and his wife, Mary, work with daughter Suzanne Schindler Vitadamo and son Bobby Schindler, who is running the Terri Schindler Schiavo Center for Health Care Ethics in Washington, D.C.
Meanwhile, Michael Schiavo has formed a political action committee called Terri PAC, which says it aims to "restore personal freedoms and individual rights."
Schiavo says on the website, "Politicians in Washington, D.C., and Florida abused their public trust by forcing the government in the middle of my family tragedy."
Amen.
Terri Ping.
The death squad never wanted Terri to become more responsive for fear she'd tell what really happened that night.
Schiavo says on the website, "Politicians in Washington, D.C., and Florida abused their public trust by forcing the government in the middle of my family tragedy."
Damn right! Precious life and death decisions are much better left up to pro-death lawyers and wife beating adulterous scumbags to truly interpret what his (WHY WON'T THE B!TCH DIE!) wife wants!
I don't know quite what to make of Doctor Hammesfahr, but I don't think he would have sought to treat Terri for free if he didn't think she would show improvement. On the other hand, Doctor Hammesfahr may have perceived that all Terri really needed was to be treated like a human being. Even if his treatments were all a useless sham, treating patients like human beings can do wonders for their condition.
Sadly, this is a dead issue. And, I can assure that there is absolutely no pun intended here.
This is a crime that was perpetrated by evil people, Terri's husband and his accomplices in the main. In my opinion, we as a nation, are far better people than this. May God always bless America and the people who worship the God of Abraham.
Which I believe is at the core of the Hippocratic Oath.
But there are others out there that can be saved.
After checking his website, TeriPac, It seems to be only an attempt to get money donated. Even a big link to "buy MY book" Me me me...
She would still be alive if the men in her family had any .....!
I still become very angry at the injustice of Terri's murder.
What's not to be angry about? She was murdered in the most inhumane way possible, probably to cover-up her husband's crimes and certainly to forward an evil agenda. The only solace is the certainty that she is in Paradise with our Savior.
What should they have done? Kill Michael?
Deathocrats don't care about people like Terri. They have a solid, vested interest in creating judicial tyranny in this country.
No replies here, I note. Seems that there
is a lack of spine here. My comments that
this was a crime perpetrated by evil people
and that, we as a nation, are far better
people than this seems to has struck a
discordant note. Just as I suspected.
Me too! I thought of her laying there panting for water, dieing slowly, and my heart just breaks.
And there are people who are being saved from the death teams because of the attention we bring. Andrea Clark, Mrs. Vo, and others like Scott Thomas.
Terri was on her way to recovery even learning to walk again when this picture was taken a couple years AFTER the suspicious incident and soon after that Mikey hit the lottery with his malpractice suit and turned off all rehabilitation.
Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
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