[bjs1779]

Dehydration cracks every single cell in the body and organs turn to rocks. It's a barbaric thing and it's painful.

Michael knew she could feel pain according to court testimony. He enjoyed every second of it.

[floriduh voter]

I wonder how long he'll keep his position with all the time he takes off to promote florida's hitler youth movement.

[T'wit]

>> Michael knew she could feel pain according to court testimony. He enjoyed every second of it.

I caught a new detail for some future prosecutor to tell the jury in Michael Schiavo's trial for aggravated manslaughter, in re Terri's unexplained near-fatal injuries the night of February 25, 1990. Part of this story appeared in an inside page of the NY Post on Wednesday, and I ripped it out. The whole story is available here.

>> NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Cardiac arrest is often preceded by symptoms lasting for more than an hour, and usually occurs in cases with a known history of heart disease or risk factors, German investigators report.

These findings refute the theory that sudden cardiac death occurs at random in apparently healthy or low-risk patients, the authors say.

The ridiculous bulimia theory was ruled out, and that was Michael's only alibi. Now we see that any other sort of "sudden" cardiac arrest was unlikely too. She didn't just get out of bed and die, did she Michael?

[T'wit]

For the record, a medical article on the effects of positional asphyxia -- like Michael getting on Terri's back and she couldn't breathe. (The injury is associated with police restraints, but having a very big man on your back is worse.) 1) Cardiac arrest. Terri went into cardiac arrest. 2) Metabolic acidosis. Terri's blood showed metabolic acidosis, surely as strange a test result as the one-time low potassium reading (which is also associated with violence). Acidosis occurs in extreme exertion (such as fighting for life and breath). Terri, so far as anyone can imagine, was asleep when Michael got home -- no exertion at all. She went from healthy to nearly dead soon after he got home late that Saturday night.

Metabolic Acidosis in Restraint-associated Cardiac Arrest