Posted on 10/10/2006 4:04:27 PM PDT by wagglebee
Yes, the autopsy revealed that her brain was so severly damaged, in fact less than half of it even remained and they agreed her case was indeed hopeless.
This case of course is very different.
I didn't say that. I told you Cheshire was not permitted to examine her. It was your doc, Ronald Cranford, who said that, in the course of his exam. It was videotaped. So, was Cranford lying? Or incompetent?
My brother died of cancer a few years ago.
He had directives to have no life sustaining measure done on him. They waited until his children could be by his side, and they pulled the plug on him.
It's a personal decision and should be respected.
When my twin daughters were 6 weeks old, both of them almost died of a respiratory virus. One was on a vent for a week, and the other was on a vent for a month.
At one point, the one that was on a vent for a month almost had to be put on a heart/lung machine. On New Year's Eve, we were celebrating one of them getting off the vent and the other one started spiraling downward. The doctor started talking to my husband and I about how bad my daughter was doing. I think she was trying to prepare us for my daughter dying, but I couldn't handle the conversation. I told the doctor to stop talking, and I left the room. Thank God, after a blood transfusion my daugter started doing better.
Today, my daughters are almost 10. The one that was on a vent for a week does have brain damage, but she is a great kid. The one that was on a vent for a month is extremely gifted and the sweetest little girl.
It is very tough to be in life/death situations. I'm thankful that I never had to make any decisions about my daughters. It would have haunted me the rest of my life.
I thought that Terri did have anorexia. If so, that really puts a strain on the body.
I found the video but can't figure out how to link it yet. It's fun to hear Cranford talk to a... person he personally declared to be a non-person.
That was an interesting comment by the assisting M.E. It didn't actually say that however. It just mentioned the weight of her brain was about 1/2. Cerebral cortex "relatively intact". Remember how you guys tossed that one around like bulimia? Being the body is 90 % water and we have a "most sever case of dehydration I have ever seen" according to main M.E., will, you figure it out.
Sounds rather far fetched to me.
No, what was suggested was bulimia, not anorexia. This was theorized on a single blood test at the emergency room, not on any direct evidence. Nobody ever saw Terri have a bulimic episode. The theory dreamed up by a trial lawyer named Gary Fox for purposes of a malpractice suit. Dr. Thogmartin was at pains to refute the bulimia theory in the autopsy report. Indeed, he ridiculed it, albeit in polite medical language. It WAS ridiculous. The medical facts do not fit bulimia and can be accounted for in far more sensible ways.
That was the most interesting finding in the autopsy. With bulimia ruled out, Michael has no alibi. I keep asking people for any innocent explanation how Terri went from a healthy young woman to nearly dead on the floor, in cardiac arrest, shortly after her husband got home late one Saturday night. Nobody has yet offered an explanation.
I have one -- domestic violence. It's the number one cause of death and injury in young women.
You are welcome to be specific. It would help my repsonse is all.
And I am both overjoyed and relieved at the happy ending! Holy smokes, just reading that was scary. Give you daughters a hug from Free Republic :-)
You are welcome to be specific. It would help my response is all.
Connect my "don't recall" to your "remember" in the post I was responding to and it will make sense.
Unless of course you don't recall your own post. :)
O'kay : )
I guess I am a little tired, but you did not respond to anything yet in my post. You know brain weight, dehydration, bulimia,(remember?) cerebral cortex (remember?), autopsy, ect. I know you don't have a bad memory.
He is so lucky that Dr. Death wasn't there at his door. Reading of quite a few of these cases lately.
Dr. Cranford is doing a poor job. The balloon is too far away for Terri's short vision. He's moving it too fast as well -- brain-damaged patients react slowly. It's a wonder that she can keep up with him at all, yet she does track the balloon on both sides of her head, and over her head.
Even more remarkable since the autopsy proved she's been blind for years and all that, and anybody like Dr. Cranford who says otherwise is lying or incompetent.
I said I "don't recall" the exchanges about "dehydration" being responsible for the degree of brain damage found by the M.E....I probably because I didn't read them.
And I find that very unlikely in any case.
The only problem with that video is that Michael's attorneys got the sound turned off in court. And our detractors claim fake! LOL
Where did you say that all of that?
I said it in the post you just read.
To explain to you what I meant by "don't recall"..or don't you remember that either?
This is too funny.
Sounds like make believe as you go along. You are right, it is funny.
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