[Spyder]

A lot of things are wrong with the stories now out. One group claims Terri never got therapy, yet this story claims she was getting it 6 years after her brain injury. Does that mean she'd been receiving it for 6 years? If so, someone was paying for it, as Medicare/Medicaid will only pay for such services for so long... the individual has to be shown to be making progress. While most therapists can document progress made with just about anything, to keep it up for 6 years with no more achievements than being able to swallow boggles the mind.

Having worked with some pretty low-functioning individuals (and their family members) I know how hard it is for them to let go of the idea that there could be a miraculous healing (and that would be the ONLY way at this point that Terri would improve).

One father even held on, hoping for the day that brain transplants would be doable so that his son could be normal again - he couldn't be convinced that following a brain transplant the body would no longer be his son but that of whoever's brain was transplanted.

If God wishes to work a miracle he'll work it in the next couple of weeks - hanging on for 20 more years in hopes of one isn't going to change His thoughts on the matter.

[Pan_Yans Wife]

One father even held on, hoping for the day that brain transplants would be doable so that his son could be normal again - he couldn't be convinced that following a brain transplant the body would no longer be his son but that of whoever's brain was transplanted.

God bless him!

[Don Joe]

You've got the Dan Rather version of the story.

Sorry, that won't cut it.

Her parents have BEGGED to be able to care for her -- at THEIR expense.

This is such a major travesty that there's no way to recap it to bring you up to speed. Suffice it to say the resource material is abundant, and available, if you want to avail yourself of it. Shooting from the hip with platitudes and generalizations just won't cut it, sorry.

[huck von finn]

A lot of things are wrong with the stories now out. One group claims Terri never got therapy, yet this story claims she was getting it 6 years after her brain injury. Does that mean she'd been receiving it for 6 years? If so, someone was paying for it, as Medicare/Medicaid will only pay for such services for so long... the individual has to be shown to be making progress. While most therapists can document progress made with just about anything, to keep it up for 6 years with no more achievements than being able to swallow boggles the mind.

What? So she was in rehab? As you say, the stories keep changing.