To be stuck in their fevered brains so deeply, Terri's Legacy must be one potent fright!
Yet this President Bush is not a good scapegoat. Rather than betraying the right, he has given it virtually everything it craved, from humongous tax cuts to conservative judges. Many of the worst errors were championed by conservative constituencies. Some of the arrogance in foreign policy stems from the armchair warriors of neoconservatism; the ill-fated attempt to “save” the life of the severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo was driven by the Christian right. Even Mr Bush's apparently oxymoronic trust in “big-government conservatism” is shared in practice by most Republicans in Congress.
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BRICK — The little things impress Tom Segars' loved ones the most.
Last weekend, he got up and made a pot of coffee.
"I know it sounds like something so small, but it's huge," said Lynda DeLorenzo, the woman Segars proposed to two months before he fell off the second-floor balcony of his Point Pleasant apartment.
Segars remained in a coma for five weeks, suffering with a traumatic brain injury.
For two years, since he awoke, Segars, now 34, has been working to rehabilitate himself, with De-Lorenzo, now 29, sticking faithfully by his side.
"She is the reason he has come back as far and as quickly as he has," said Segars' mother, Veronica Segars, 55, of Brick. "If there was ever a love story, this is it."
Their story, and the rest of Segars' first year of rehabilitation was captured in the HBO documentary called "Coma." The 101-minute program, directed by Academy Award-nominated Liz Garbus, follows four brain injury survivors during their critical first year of treatment at John F. Kennedy Medical Center in Edison.
Sheila Nevins, president of documentaries at HBO, asked Garbus to look into the phenomenon of coma, the director wrote in an e-mail to the Asbury Park Press.
"In the wake of the Terri Schiavo case, there was so much misinformation about the various disorders of consciousness, that we wanted to probe deeper into that world and show what it is really like," Garbus said.
Garbus said she thinks her documentary shows "the phenomenal commitment of family members to those with brain injury" and "the extraordinarily painstaking process by which these patients are rehabilitated . . . and how that can work well."
"We should only hope all brain injury patients in America were afforded such care," she added.
HBO'S "COMA" IS LIFE-AFFIRMING
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Here is the show schedule. (Wide Awake????? Nawww, couldn't be them.)