Terri's Story

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

[wagglebee]

Good stuff here on Terri's autopsy.

[wagglebee]

Someone once told me, "the problem with wrestling with a pig is that you both get covered in pig sh!t and THE PIG LIKES IT."

Which is actually just a cruder version of our Lord's advice to "Not cast pearls before swine."

[8mmMauser]

For those like us who prefer facts, she was on the road to recovery when this pic was taken. At that time, she had over ten healing fractures, breaks showing to have occured at about the time of her mystery episode. Evaluation signed by W. Campbell Walker, M.D. as of 3/5/91, Radiology Department. Manatee Memorial Hospital.

Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.

[8mmMauser]

Remember, Debbie Dethnell is our poster child for Halloween.

[dforest]

LOL Very true!

[bjs1779]

For those like us who prefer facts,

Amazingly, they like to mention facts. I guess they think it is some kind of headline that will sell with no article below it.

[wagglebee]

Of course they use facts. It's easier to lie and distort facts than it is to create sympathy for a slimy adulterer like Michael Schiavo and his ghoulish attorneys.

[hodaka]

If the Schindler's started thinking that Michael somehow caused these injuries, why did they live together for so many years? I don't think I would want to live someone who might have caused harm to my daughter.

[bjs1779]

Of course they use facts. It's easier to lie and distort facts than it is to create sympathy for a slimy adulterer like Michael Schiavo and his ghoulish attorneys.

Stealing Terri's medical money was good. The Schindler's, trying to raise money to save their daughter are bad.

[8mmMauser]

I ran into one of the family there at the vigil, don't know the relationship, but sure recognized the behavior. Didn't like Christian symbols much. Later even embarrassed himself, after making a fool of himself ranting in front of decent folks. Even apologized and tiptoed out.

[supercat]

If the Schindler's started thinking that Michael somehow caused these injuries, why did they live together for so many years? I don't think I would want to live someone who might have caused harm to my daughter.

Which is batter--to live with someone who may have harmed your daughter, or to leave your daughter alone with such a person?

[bjs1779]

I don't think I would want to live someone who might have caused harm to my daughter.

And let the truth be known, I bet you wouldn't want that someone to kill your daughter either.

[wagglebee]

And they never want to mention the money that Michael Schiavo is making on his book and they certainly won't discuss the more than million dollars he spent killing her even though by law every penny of it was supposed to pay for her rehabilitation.

[8mmMauser]

You should really, REALLY, read something definitive. There is plenty out there. In these Terri threads you would find an abundance of compelling references, authors, bona fide experts, quotations, all you need if you really would like to know. All that background has been explained. It would make you sound more knowledgeable, too.

[hodaka]

So are you saying that they lived with Michael to protect their daughter from further harm?

[supercat]

Blood tests indicating oxygenation problems would be expected in a person whose heart stopped. That does not indicate violence.

And what caused her hypokalemia? Physical struggle can cause blood potassium levels to drop, but there's no sensible reason Terri should have been involved in any such struggle prior to her collapse (unless, of course, someone bodily attacked her). Since the "bulemia" theory has also been shot out of the water, what other explanation can you offer for hypokalemia other than that Terri was bodily attacked by Michael Schiavo?

[bjs1779]

And they never want to mention the money that Michael Schiavo is making on his book and they certainly won't discuss the more than million dollars he spent killing her even though by law every penny of it was supposed to pay for her rehabilitation

Nope. And they hate the Schindlers for raising money in the effort to save her. Strange behavior behind that keyboard.

[ReignOfError]

Let us also remember what the courts did to this little fellow too.

Um, let me see if I've got this straight. A judge didn't let the father of Terri Schiavo, a married adult determine what was best for her, and that was an atrocity. A judge did let the father of Elian Gonzales, a small child, determine what was best for him, and that was an atrocity.

[supercat]

So are you saying that they lived with Michael to protect their daughter from further harm?

I have never met the Schindlers, and do not know their motives. I was merely observing that their continuing to live with Michael does not imply that they continued to trust him.

BTW, one thing which I have noticed in myself and others is that it is sometimes harder to notice something that is inconceivably horrible than something which is simply bad. If the horrible thing exceeds one's own perception of how bad things can be, seeing it can create sufficient cognitive dissonance to mask its existence.

Terri's parents certainly did trust Michael for quite awhile; I don't think the siblings really did. If the parents' trust had become jaded with unease, however, continuing to live with Terri and Michael would still have made sense.

[bjs1779]

Right now I can read that a couple of ways. Could would be more clear before I respond?