Terri's Story

Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation ^ | December 3,2006 | Schindler Foundation

[T'wit]

Thanks, I'm at a borrowed computer and won't be able to give this attention until I get home. Off the top, though, one quick comment: wherever we have some approximation of a free market, history has proven Malthus wrong. Later...

[BykrBayb]

Look how far we've come since tattoos. These bracelets can be requested by the individual, or by someone else "on their behalf."

22 (c) Format of bracelet.--The department shall, with the
23 advice of the Pennsylvania Emergency Health Services Council and
24 with the assistance of the regional emergency medical services
25 councils, make available standard bracelets for issuance to
26 patients by attending physicians. The bracelets shall be uniform
27 in design and shall, at a minimum, on the face clearly indicate
28 OUT-OF-HOSPITAL DNR and the name of the patient and attending
29 physician as well as the dated signature of the attending
30 physician.

[T'wit]

I am ordering a bracelet to say, "Take good care of me and keep me alive or my lawyer will sue you and everyone involved for every penny you've got."

It could be a charm bracelet. We could have little charms attached saying, "Darn right resuscitate, and be darn quick about it!" ... "Hands off my feeding tube, you murdering pigdogs!" ... "I disinherit any heir involved in any way in making an end-of-life decision for me."

Suggestions for additional charms?

[BykrBayb]

I was thinking of "Where there is life, there is hope." But that's been tried, and it didn't work.

[BykrBayb]

"Hands off my feeding tube, you murdering pigdogs!"

That one just might work!

[T'wit]

If my feeding tube is removed, the whole building will blow up.

[BykrBayb]

The only person authorized to remove my feeding tube is the one who is on their 13th day with no food or water.

[T'wit]

1-2-3-4
This is what we PAY you for.
2-4-6-8
RESUSCITATE, RESUSCITATE!!!

[T'wit]

I like it, but it's harsh. I'd say ten days is enough. Maybe eleven.

[T'wit]

"No, I'm not happy to see you. I have a gun under the sheet. If you touch my feeding tube, I will use it."

[T'wit]

>> I was thinking of "Where there is life, there is hope."

What do you mean, "tubes"? I didn't say anything about tubes. I said I couldn't stand living next door to a tuba player.

[BykrBayb]

I thought you said "I can't stand living with a tub of lard."

[T'wit]

>> ...unwitted advocates of totalitarianism continue to promulgate both abortion and euthanasia as enlightened concepts of progression.

The whole right-to-die movement is reactionary to the bone. They are hooked on 19th C. socialist doctrines that create a strong economic incentive to killing the weak, the ill, the elderly. But even as socialists fix their gaze at the past, medicine is making logarithmic advances in so many areas, there is ever more hope for these patients. Thus the Left is stealing the lives of the afflicted just as hopes of cures for them burn brightest. Worse, this denial of human sympathy for the weakest among us is our doom as a civilization.

>>The murder of Terri Schiavio will not soon be forgotten, and now in retrospect, it might be viewed in the future as one the seminal events in our history that hallmarked the quickening of the massacre of our undesirables.

You're absolutely on target. This was a landmark case both in medicine and in constitutional law. Time will show that we went over a cliff. No, we were pushed over a cliff.

[T'wit]

"I didn't say living with a feeding tube sucks. I said I don't want my feet in tube socks."

[BykrBayb]

"We aren't going to pull each other's plugs, are we?"

[T'wit]

Memo to visitors: It is a new month and time to ask the most important question in the Terri Schiavo story. Namely, how did Terri, a young, healthy woman asleep in bed one Saturday night, suddenly end up on a hallway floor, face down, suffering from a number of traumatic internal injuries, in cardiopulmonary arrest, making gurgling noises, right after Michael Schiavo came home late from work?

We have some facts and clues to consider.

1) Nobody else was present

2) The coroner ruled out the "bulimia" story that Michael had used as an alibi. Now he has no alibi.

3) The hospital could not find any natural cause for Terri's condition or injuries. No alcohol or drugs were found in her blood.

4) Terri's internal injuries were comparable to being in a bad auto wreck -- except she wasn't in one.

5) Terri and Michael were known to have had a heated fight that day.

6) Terri's blood tests showed at least two highly abnormal results associated with being assaulted.

7) Statistically, domestic violence, by husbands and boy friends, is the #1 cause of death and injury to young women.

Do we have any answers to this mystery?

[T'wit]

:-) :-)

Your plug is safe with me, BB.

[BykrBayb]

You still don't have an answer? If you ever get one, it'll be in Breaking News. Don't hold your breath.

[T'wit]

>> You still don't have an answer?

No. Not one. The silence speaks volumes.

[BykrBayb]

March for Life Welcomes the Schindler Family (video)