It sure doesn’t. The autopsy report doesn’t change reality at all so far as that goes. During those last days I was with Monsignor Malanowski each day right after his visits and he gave us progress reports on how Terri was reacting. Do I believe him or do I believe an autopsy report based on a brain starved for hydration for thirteen days, on whether she was aware surroundings?
I guess you are an MD. I do have twenty six years experience with our son who was worse off in that department than Terri and he was very much aware of his surroundings, and similar in many ways. During those twenty six years we received much solemn evaluation from MD’s who gave us gloom and doom about his life span and he proved them all wrong.
I am a conservative Catholic and Monsignor is a fine priest. Who do I believe?
Oh, my son was worse off than Terri for swallowing, too. He could swallow. Terri would have swallowed, too, if they would have let her. As an MD you must know, swallowing is fairly basic even to one whose brain had received the insult s Terri’s received.
I believe the swallowing tests, which said that she couldn’t swallow.
I am sorry for your son’s troubles but I also know there are times that hope colors perception; I must conclude that is the case for those around Terri Schiavo, based on the CT scan and autopsy report. And again, dehydration does not mean that the neuropathologist couldn’t assess her brain tissue - I have yet to see a credible medical source who asserts that. If you know of a neuropathologist who can flatly assert that, please cite.