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Mandy's baby (Mom recovered from coma)
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| January 11, 2007
| LORI BASHEDA
Posted on 01/11/2007 1:02:42 PM PST by TheDon
Nearly 10 years later, the miracles keep on coming.
It was spring 1997 when the doctor beckoned Amanda's mother into the hallway of the hospital and told her that her daughter would probably never wake up. And if she did wake up, she would be a vegetable.
And here's what Chris Maese told the doctor: "NO! That's not the way it's gonna be." And she jabbed her finger at the doctor for emphasis.
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They married a year ago. "I'm totally happy," Amanda says. It's so far from the days when Maese looked down at her daughter lying in a coma, making sucking motions like a sleeping baby.
"I believe Amanda is a miracle," her mom says. A miracle that she insists she never doubted would never permit herself to doubt. "Instead of crying
I remember singing praise songs in the shower. We become warriors when we have to be.
"When tragedy strikes, you
get down on your knees and you seek all that you can muster up to pull you through. I got in the Bible and I read day and night through the Scriptures and I looked for a sign. Whether to believe the doctors, that Amanda, if she ever did make it, would be nothing more than a vegetable. Or to take that Scripture and hold it close to my heart and believe it without a shadow of a doubt."
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KEYWORDS: life
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Some good news for a change.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:02:47 PM PST
by
TheDon
To: TheDon
IB4TFTSA (In Before The First Terri Schiavo Allusion... er, too late.)
2
posted on
01/11/2007 1:05:14 PM PST
by
Sloth
(The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
To: TheDon
And it is very good news.
3
posted on
01/11/2007 1:07:01 PM PST
by
Cindy
To: Sloth
IB4TFTSA (In Before The First Terri Schiavo Allusion... er, too late.)
There is a big difference between the two cases. The person responsible for Amanda's welfare wanted her to get better and worked towards that goal.
4
posted on
01/11/2007 1:12:05 PM PST
by
msnimje
(You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
To: 8mmMauser
5
posted on
01/11/2007 1:13:59 PM PST
by
TheSarce
("America is NOT what's wrong with this world." --Donald Rumsfeld)
To: TheDon
My first job as nurse was on a Neurosurgery floor. We had a teenage boy on the floor that was in a coma. We finally talked mom and dad into going to the lake over the weekend, because they really needed a break. I was taking care of their son and he started to wake up and I remember mom screaming over the phone when I told her the news.
By end of the week this kid was laughing at the dirty jokes his uncle was telling him. He did have a long way to go but you can't ever give up.
6
posted on
01/11/2007 1:14:01 PM PST
by
Kimmers
(It's not what you take when you leave this world behind, it's what you leave behind when you go)
To: TheDon
< sniff >
That's a sweet story.
Never, ever, ever give up! The brain is a mystery that the most skilled neurosurgeon only faintly begins to comprehend.
But God knows it backwards and forwards!
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:15:07 PM PST
by
AnAmericanMother
((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
To: msnimje
The person responsible for Amanda's welfare wanted her to get better and worked towards that goal.Exactly. They must not have known how "peaceful" and "beautiful" they could have made Amanda merely by starvation and dehydration...
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:15:44 PM PST
by
Triggerhippie
(Always use a silencer in a crowd. Loud noises offend people.)
To: msnimje
So did those who loved Terri. Over a decade they tried everything imaginable and nothing worked.
9
posted on
01/11/2007 1:17:37 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
To: Sloth
IB4TFTSA (In Before The First Terri Schiavo Allusion... er, too late.) How about a "Kill Bill, vol. 1" allusion...Uma...Oprah...Oprah...Uma....
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:20:36 PM PST
by
King Moonracer
(Bad lighting and cheap fabric, thats how you sell clothing.)
To: justshutupandtakeit
they tried everything imaginable... Please list five regimens that were tried in the last five years of her life... I'll wait.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:24:37 PM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: justshutupandtakeit
So did those who loved Terri. Over a decade they tried everything imaginable and nothing worked.
You are dreadfully misinformed. She was denied tests and therapies by her "husband"
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:25:16 PM PST
by
msnimje
(You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
To: pgyanke
Why don't you read what was written until you understand it. Shouldn't take more than a few hours.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:25:41 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
To: msnimje
No I an not misinformed merely not willing to play the Shindlers' sick game. Terri degenerated to a vegetable state after the years passed.
There was nothing that could be done towards the end if one was not willing to pretend.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:27:38 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
To: justshutupandtakeit
No I an not misinformed merely not willing to play the Shindlers' sick game.
God have mercy on your stone cold soul.
15
posted on
01/11/2007 1:29:59 PM PST
by
msnimje
(You simply cannot be Christian and Pro-Abortion.)
To: justshutupandtakeit
Why don't you read what was written until you understand it. You brought her up with an assinine assertion and you want to get pissy with me? I know her history. See if you can find a treatment regimen introduced after March 1994 besides a feeding tube.
Good luck.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:31:42 PM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: justshutupandtakeit
By the way... your tagline is at odds with your views.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:32:40 PM PST
by
pgyanke
(Gay marriage does to real marriage what counterfeit money does to real money. - Hemogoblin)
To: msnimje
My soul is as warm as the next persons. Being able to separate bunkum from fact warms it in fact.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:34:30 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
To: pgyanke
"You brought her up with an assinine assertion and you want to get pissy with me?" YOU "brought her up" not me. And since when is demanding an accurate reading of what is written getting "pissy"? But no one expects any competence from the fanatical True Believer.
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posted on
01/11/2007 1:37:12 PM PST
by
justshutupandtakeit
(If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
To: TheDon
Jeb Bush for President /sarcasm off
20
posted on
01/11/2007 1:38:19 PM PST
by
isthisnickcool
(If you can't light a fire in the vacuum of space what's the deal with the Sun?)
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