A reminder, the grim reaper and his drooling enthusiasts were denied at the height of their lust.
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To most people, Haleigh Poutre’s extraordinary recovery from the brink of brain death could be called a miracle.
But one Bay State brain injury expert said that although only a “small percentage” of people fully recover from severe trauma, recovery can, in fact, occur.
“It is entirely possible for someone with severe injury to recover. The chances of a full recovery becomes much less the more severe the injury but, it is still possible,” said Dr. Douglas Katz, medical director of brain injury at Braintree Rehabilitation Center.
When the 14-year-old was first hospitalized in 2005, at age 11, doctors said there was “no hope of a meaningful recovery.”
But as they prepared to pull the plug on her life support, Poutre showed signs of emerging from the vegetative state that had shackled her for months........
Chance of recovery rare, but possible, says brain doc
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This from WND in modest excerpt...
Here's what he said: "When I first arrived in the Senate that first year, we had a situation surrounding Terri Schiavo. And I remember how we adjourned with a unanimous agreement that eventually allowed Congress to interject itself into that decision-making process of the families. It wasn't something I was comfortable with, but it was not something that I stood on the floor and stopped. And I think that was a mistake, and I think the American people understood that that was a mistake. And as a constitutional law professor, I knew better. ... And I think that's an example of inaction, and sometimes that can be as costly as action."
That "situation" surrounding Terri Schiavo was, I like to think, an earnest effort by a group of lawmakers to save the life of an innocent woman who was eventually put to death by court order – starved and dehydrated against the wishes of her mother, father and siblings, who wished to care for her at their own expense..............
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