That was a terrible period of time. I was beside myself, totally feeling my own helplessness to do anything to stop this....murder....from taking place. A horrible, gut-grinding pain whenever I thought about Terri and what was being done to her....and it seems that that was ALL I thought about. Although most here on FR understood and felt similarly to me, a number did not. I could never understand that. I stopped coming here for almost a year...felt really disillusioned with people.
sigh.
pattyjo
i was born with CP. The drs told my mother to put me in an institution. I was in a vegetative state and would never speak or walk or interact with the world.
I didn’t cry or respond to stimulus for the first three months, but (after that) I developed fast. I was walking at 9 months and speaking by one year. I am clumsy and have the coordination of a drunken monkey, but I’m happily married and have raised two wonderful children into wonderful adults. I can cook meals that will make any man happy and my reading has been clocked at 1500 WPM with 90% retention.
*I* think that I’m perfectly normal. \8-p
I’ve always told my family to not consider me in a PVS until I’ve had at least a full year of intensive therapy and that I’d do the same for them.
it seems to me that most of the time, once the diagnosis happens, the poor people are put in a bed and left to languish. Physical therapy WORKS! (*I’m* here!)