That’s why the nurses administered morphine to Terri. They knew she was in horrible pain - so much for being brain dead. Some of the more sympathetic nurses told Terri’s family that they would put a popsicle to her mouth and she had no trouble licking it AND swallowing. None of that mattered. HINO had left orders nothing by mouth ever as he lived in fear that her condition was improving and she didn’t really need a feeding tube. There is no explanation of such evilness. Terri saw it first hand, and so did the police who wrote up the initial report implicating the HINO.
Shortly after Terri died, another case of spousal abuse over in Jacksonville hit the news. A man’s mail-order-bride from another country whacked him in the head with a frying pan trying to kill him. He didn’t die, but suffered TBI and was admitted to another Death Camp Hospice. His mother was trying to get guardianship away from the wife who got the doctor to put in the no food/no water order. I wonder what ever happened to him.
I have never heard that Terri was given morphine or painkillers of any kind, except perhaps early on. Is that what you meant? By the time of Greer’s court, they would not allow anything including lip balm or ice chips. That Terri’s family had to watch her die like this is truly horrible. God bless Monsignor Ted.