Posted on 07/09/2006 7:59:40 PM PDT by churchillbuff
The case of Terry Wallis, an Arkansas man who suddenly woke up from a 19-year long coma, has raised new questions about the death of Terri Schiavo, who died last year after a court ordered her feeding tube to be disconnected.
Wallis fell into his coma in 1984 after a serious car accident. At the time he was 19.
According to LifeSiteNews.com, the doctors who have studied the Wallis case have published their initial conclusions in the Journal of Clinical Investigation. The report explains that during the car accident Walls’ nerve connections in his brain were severed, putting him in a minimally conscious state and rendering him a quadriplegic. A young husband with a newborn child, Wallis was considered a hopeless case, especially considering that his family could not pay the $120,000 needed to consult a neurologist about any possibility of recovery. However in 2003, during one of the regular visits of his mother, who had regularly visited him at the Rehabilitation Centre in Mountain View, Arkansas, he made what seemed a sudden recovery, and spoke “mom”, his first word in 19 years.
Imaging expert Henning Voss and neurologist Nicholas Schiff of the Weil Medical College at the University of Cornell believe Wallis’ brain “rewired itself” and slowly re-grew the nerve connections that were devastated as a result of his accident.
Doctors at Wallis’ rehabilitation center believe the recovery is due in part to visits by his family, which could have acted as a kind of mental therapy for his recovery.
“He now seems exactly like his old self,” says Jerry Wallis, Terry’s father. Over the 19 years of Terry’s coma, both Jerry and his mother Angilee had doubts at some time or another about whether or not it was better for Terry to be alive. However, now both are glad they never caved into those doubts. Since then they have seen their son make strides in his recovery with the ambition of walking for his daughter. “He very often tells us how glad he is to be alive,” says Terry’s father.
LifeSiteNews.com noted that the Wallis case stands in stark opposition to the case of Terri Schindler-Schiavo, who received no therapy from her philandering husband after her 1990 collapse. She was instead dehydrated to death by court order in March 2005. Although some doctors claim that Terri Schiavo could not have made Terry Wallis’ recovery since she was in a persistent vegetative state (PVS), witnesses such as former nurse Carla Iyer maintained that with therapy, Schiavo, who said words like, “mommy, help me”, could have indeed recovered over time.
In a BBC interview Dr. Ralf Clauss, a scientist in nuclear medicine and one of the drug researchers, stated that, “For every damaged area of the brain, there is a dormant area, which seems to be a sort of protective mechanism. The damaged tissue is dead, there’s nothing you can do,” he explained. “But it’s the dormant areas which ‘wake up’.”
The Schiavo judge should get articles about this case every day for the rest of his life to remind him of his murder.
Jeb Bush for president. /sarcasm off
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You should not be criticizing Jeb Bush, he did everything and some that was within his power.
The blame lies with MIchael Schiavo, his lawyer and Judge Greer, and as secondary responsibility, the Florida Legislature, but NOT Jeb Bush.
Related news is posted daily. The best thing one can say about Greer is that he's not our problem :-) He is the dead chicken around the trolls' necks. They are stuck with him.
Not for one moment would I believe anything they released on the UNWITNESSED autopsy. Now would I ever believe that witnessing her painful death was "beautiful"..
"Doctors at Wallis’ rehabilitation center believe the recovery is due in part to visits by his family, which could have acted as a kind of mental therapy for his recovery."
In a comma they know for a fact, that people can hear!
Imagine the hell she went through when her husband visited her in private. I'd hate to know the what he spoke to her. He HATED her and wanted her DEAD.
God will not be mocked. 20 years in a vega-state is nothing compared to being awake and aware as to what we have done to our culture/society - God did this guy a favor....he can teach and show us much about what we have become....simply by being asleep - the Lord works in strange ways. Does anyone remember the Hugh Finn case? - one of my best friends - his evil wife did him in long before Terry Schiavo - Hugh's case made national news. The Finn family still condiders the wife of Hugh a murderer and still are fighting the "life' insurance claim - that bitch.
Is that the same Jeb Bush whose wife tried to smuggle tens of thousands of dollars worth of designer dresses into the country?
Terry Wallis, 42, is seen with his daughter Amber Wallis at his parents home on Saturday July 1, 2006 in Stone County, Ark. For the first time, doctors say they have proof the brain can grow its own repairs. Their evidence is Wallis who regained speech and movement after being barely conscious for nearly 20 years. The scientists say Terry Wallis' brain spontaneously rewired itself by replacing the tiny nerve connections that were cut in a car crash. (AP Photo/Brian Chilson)
Don't you people believe in an afterlife? Terri Schiavo is suffering no more. Let her go...
Well, well. I suppose that if Jeb Bush was walking by a lake that had a "No Swimming" sign that was posted due to some law and Jeb saw a child drowning he'd point to the sign and say "sorry, I can't help that kid".
Jeb Bush is a p*$$y. He's unmanly, timid and doesn't have the character to ever represent me in the White House. Some might say "But Nick, he was following the law. Oh gosh golly, what if he did not follow the law? He might get in trouble or mess up his political career?" To that I say so what! Some things are bigger than that. But unfortunately Jeb Bush wasn't a big enough man to put the life of someone else above his political career. He does not have the right stuff.
"Don't you people believe in an afterlife?"
Yes, when life is over, not when it is ended by court order. That is what everyone is bothered by. Someone can have you terminated when it is no longer convenient for them that you live.
Terri was eliminated, not allowed to go to "a better place." It was not a quick, humane, or peaceful event. It was a murder. I don't know if you noticed that in the pictures of starving people in third world countries they do not have a peaceful look on their face.
I'm glad my wife will let me borrow her revolver one last time. If I ever end up like that...
"Jeb Bush could have used his executive authority to take custody of Terri and put her in protective care until a full review of her situation was honestly performed."
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You must remember that he tried to do just that, but there was a leak, and the monsters got a court order to stop it.
And if you did, you wouldn't be capable of using it!
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