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Hi there! Best place to start is www.terrisfight.org

That's where you'll find "Basic Terri" and more. Meanwhile I'll try to sum it up.
Terri was alone with her husband when she collapsed in 1990, of unknown causes. No heart attack, but she was without oxygen for about 10 minutes. This caused severe brain damage. Her husband got a malpractice award from her doctors, for not diagnosing a potassium imbalance. Very soon after he got the money, specifically awarded for her care and therapy, he ordered NO rehabilitative therapy.
He tried to refuse her treatment of infections, too, so that she might die. Then a few years later he claimed to remember that Terri had said she wouldn't ever want to live with artificial life support, and he began trying to kill her legally. He calls this "letting her die."
Terri is not on artificial life support. She has a feeding tube in her stomach, nothing more. Her husband will not allow anyone to try to teach her how to eat by mouth, although she obviously has some swallowing ability.
The court has allowed her husband to kill her ("let her die") although she is NOT dying. The money awarded for her care has run out, a good portion of it gone to pay lawyers to achieve Terri's death.
Her parents and siblings love her and want to take care of her, and are trying to stop her husband from killing her. They say Terri can benefit from therapy; they believe that Terri's husband may have caused her condition; and they say his guardianship of her has been characterized by abuse and neglect.
Her husband says she is totally oblivious, unconscious, irreversibly brain-damaged, but has a right to privacy that protects her right to be killed, as he claims she wanted.
Terri left no written instructions or medical directive about her wishes. Her parents and friends don't believe the husband.
He has a "fiancee" and two children by this person. When he started trying to get Terri killed, he stood to inherit a million dollars by her death (her award money). Those who believe he caused her condition, think he wants to make sure she never learns to talk again.
He has gotten permission from the court to have her immediately cremated after death. Medical records indicate she had a lot of physical damage, including bone fractures, on admission to the hospital in 1990. Nobody knows how that happened.
He refused to take a lie detector test suggested recently on Larry King Live.
Hope that helps!

Graymatter, MSLD*

*Michael Schiavo Lie Detector :)

Thank you - now you NEED to get the insurance adjuster to understand - pls DO get the message through - why should the insurance co. pay. $1 M if she's sabotaged/killed?

PLAIN ENGLISH not 3 weeks of mumbo/jumbo will get it through to the powers that be....

Did a doctor recently diagnose Terri as cerebral palsey victim? This is the first I heard of this on Hannitty the other night. Who was the doctor and how did he/she arrive at this diagnosis?