Brain-damaged woman moved from hospice to hospital

Associated Press ^ | 10-21-03

[Brian S]

(Tallahassee, Florida-AP) -- A brain-damaged woman at the center of a bitter right-to-die controversy has been moved from a hospice to a hospital.

Terry Schiavo (SHY'-voh) has been without food or water for six days. She's to be given fluids at the hospital before again being fed through a tube.

Florida Governor Jeb Bush ordered that the feeding tube be reinserted. He acted after the Legislature rushed through a law giving him that authority.

The bill was designed to save the life of Schiavo, whose parents have fought for several years to keep her alive. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, says she would rather die.

Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed by court order at her husband's insistence last Wednesday. Doctors said the 39-year-old woman would die within a week to ten days without food and water.

Court-appointed doctors have described Schiavo as being in a vegetative state, caused when her heart stopped in 1990 from a suspected chemical imbalance.

[syriacus]

Terri moved from hospice death chamber and to hospital.

Hooray!!

Thanks for the ping.

[utahagen]

This is a nightmare! God, hear our anguished prayers for Terri. Please get her water as soon as possible.

Summer, where are you? Call your contact in Jeb Bush's office and tell him Terri may not be getting hydration after all.

Freepers, help! Storm Heaven with your prayer and call or email or fax anyone you think can help. Terri's life is still in danger. We cannot walk away yet!

[riri]

You obviously can't live without water for six days, so she must be getting water somehow?! Anybody have any insight into this?

[syriacus]

nor will she be allowed to receive flowers or cards

I hope he gives her the "Get Well" card I sent her in care of him (as her guardian).

[shhrubbery!]

What role does a GAL play in this picture? Who appoints them? Can they overule her regular guardian?

Someone on another thread posted that the bill passed by the legislature gives the governor the power to appoint a guardian ad litem if the judge refuses to. I don't know if this is correct.

[NittanyLion]

What are the implications of being without food and water for this long? Could she have kidney damage?

[FITZ]

Why don't they just give custody to the parents? Whoever heard of custody not being taken away from someone who wants their ward to die?

You'd think the feminists would be outraged that a cheating husband feels he has ownership of the wife he wants dead and out of the way. But this is euthanasia so there is no peep out of them. Let Michael have his divorce so he can marry his lover but let Terri be with the family who loves her.

[sweetliberty]

"Now they ought to thoroughly investigate this creep of a husband."

We need to ride that as hard as we rode for Terri's rescue! Justice for Terri! I will not go so far as to assume that the husband was responsible for her initial collapse, but I am certainly not discounting it either and I want to see it investigated. It is my understanding that Terri was bulemic, but that even that was in response to Michael Schiavo's taunts about her weight when she was younger.

But you are absolutely right. There are so many things about this case that should raise red flags. I would like to see a thorough examination of Michael Sciavo AND and criminal investigation of the possibility that he was responsible in the first place. I also want to see his business dealings with Greer and Felos investigated. There is just so much wrong with this case that it is hard to fathom the inompetence that brought us to this point.

[Ladysmith]

Prayers of desperation!!

[sweetliberty]

Hey y'all. Ping to Floriduh Voter's post #14. Felos seems to have a hammerlock on everything. TERRI IS NOT BEING HYDRATED!

[syriacus]

Whoever heard of custody not being taken away from someone who wants their ward to die?

I think Florida should declare "eminent domain" over Terri.

Schiavo and Felos think she is already dead, so she is not a "person" to them, she's just a material body.

If they think she is just a physical body, they should be willing to accept attempts by the state to take over the "ownership" of her body.

Why is Michael intent on keeping guardianship, if, as Felos says, Terri is not even in her body?

[LADY J]

"Hey y'all. Ping to Floriduh Voter's post #14. Felos seems to have a hammerlock on everything. TERRI IS NOT BEING HYDRATED!"

What do we have to do to stop these killers before it's too late?

[sweetliberty]

"she's just a material body"

That is keeping them from getting their hands on whatever monies are unavailable until after her death, and apparetnly they want this to go away so that there is no furthur prying into whatever shenanigans they have going on. I think there is a web of corruption here folks, beyond money for legal fees.

[sweetliberty]

Keep praying!!!!

[LADY J]

"Keep praying!!!!"

I've been praying non-stop. Terri is on my mind and my heart breaks for her.

We HAVE to pray and use whatever means we can to stop them. These are very evil people who are doing 'in your face' things to her and making us like it!!

[LADY J]

UPDATE FROM TERRI'S VIGIL SITE ON LOCATION... by floriduh voter and
drk4the1: TERRI IS NOT BEING RE-HYDRATED AT MORTON PLANT
HOSPITAL IN CLEARWATER, FL. The Governor's Office is under the
impression and reporting that the procedure started at 7:07 pm. While it's
being reported to the family attorney that she is not going to receive
anything. A telephonic hearing is scheduled to begin at 8:30 pm est with
Judge Douglas Baird re: Michael Schiavo's suit against Gov. Bush and his
executive order of today. Additionally, Michael S. is disputing his removal
as Terri's legal guardian. Anything helpful appreciated. Contact floriduh
voter or the drk screen name. We are outside fighting the mosquitoes. H E
L P !!!!!

14 posted on 10/21/2003 5:48 PM PDT by floriduh voter (Please keep following Terri Threads.
We aren't done yet... updates also at terrisfight.org)

[silly me]

He doesn't want any $$$ spent on her afraid that she'll be sufficiently recovered to drop a dime on his a** for attempted murder. Can't the legislature see that????
What's wrong with those people? I watched the debate in the House last night on the internet and those people arguing against her feeding tube reinstatement hiding behind the issue of "constitutionality". Well, I'm all for the Constitution being followed, but let's be real guys: can you picture Geo. Washington, or Thomas Jefferson or Madison saying, "Well, it's not what we intended with 'separation of powers'....IDIOTS! They need to get their collective heads outta their butts so they can see something.

And what's up with her parents? Why didn't they stage a Rambo-style raid on that hospice joint and rescue their daughter. That's what I would have done. NOTHING would stand between me and MY child, guardianship or NO guardianship. There's such a thing as the "right thing to do"....

Which is a bigger sin? Supposedly 'breaking the separation of powers' clause in the Florida or US Constitution or letting an innocent woman die when you COULD have done something about it?

AND JEB BUSH!!! He could have invoked EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE and intervened without the Legislature taking their good sweet time about doing something.

Yeah, he's the Knight on the White Horse now, but you watch his butt pucker come election time. He just might lose his seat.

[ellery]

Denying food and water is just not the same as denying extraordinary measures to save someone.

Exactly. This plus the lack of a living will -- you would think even people in favor of "right to die" would err on the side of caution.

[ellery]

What's the issue of Constitutionality here?

[supercat]

He doesn't want any $$$ spent on her afraid that she'll be sufficiently recovered to drop a dime on his a** for attempted murder. Can't the legislature see that????

If Terri lives long enough for a guardian ad litem to be appointed and request an audit of her trust, I'd think that might contain all the evidence needed for an attempted murder conviction.