Terri Schiavo Hospitalized With Apparent Puncture Wounds In Arm! Apparent Foul Play!

WFTV-ABC in Orlando | UNK

[MindBender26]

In 7:25 break, anchor reported "Terri Schiavo was rushed to a Pinellas County emergency room last night after nursing home staff noticed puncture wounds on her arm. The wounds appeared to be caused by a hypodermic needle! Toxicology tests were conducted but the results are not available yet!"

This could open a huge new round in this case. What did tests reveal? Who was last person in room? When was husband there? Was staffer trying the Angle of Death routine?

This will be developing hard all day!

[MindBender26]

(as you know, I have been critical of conduct of some of Terri's wierd "supporters" as it has only complicated her legal case, but this is a brand new ball game..)

Expect Bay Area media on this hot all day.

[Poohbah]

(as you know, I have been critical of conduct of some of Terri's wierd "supporters" as it has only complicated her legal case, but this is a brand new ball game..)

Oh, gosh. Should I call the cops because it took three sticks to get a blood test from me last month?

[Jackie-O]

PING!!!

[MindBender26]

No, this looks more serious. Belief is that someone, person unknown, tried to inject her with something. Right now they are assuming foul play, but little known.

Seems this was noticed for the first time late at night.

This has been a major story here on FR, but our crack admin moderator took it out of breaking news.

[hellinahandcart]

And if no blood tests or anything else requiring a needle had been ordered, and you found puncture marks on a patient who can't tell you what happened?

[MindBender26]

This was in breaking news, but our Admin Moderator took it out of that category.

Here was a chance to get ahead of mainstream media on a story that has been exceptionaly hot in Conservative circles, even onto national news, but they take it down so we can simply follow the leader on terror news.

Terri has many friends here. Bad news judgement by Admin Moderator.

[Woodstock]

BUMP for Terri. Prayers till she is home.

[Catspaw]

Here's the coverage from the St. Petersburg Times.  I couldn't find a story in the Tampa Tribune.

The Terri Schiavo Case

Doctors examine Schiavo 'wounds'

By LEANORA MINAI, Times Staff Writer
Published March 30, 2004

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CLEARWATER - Terri Schiavo was being examined Monday night in the Morton Plant-Mease Hospital emergency room after workers at her nursing home discovered "fresh puncture wounds" on her arms.

George Felos, the attorney representing Schiavo's husband, Michael, said the wounds appeared to have been caused by a hypodermic needle. A purple needle cap was found in Schiavo's gown, he said.

The puncture marks were discovered Monday at Park Place assisted living home after a 45-minute visit by her parents, Bob and Mary Schindler, Felos said.

"It appears that someone was either trying to inject Terri Schiavo with something or withdraw fluids from her," Felos said.

Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, said late Monday he was disgusted by such innuendo. Schindler told WTSP-Ch. 10 he was at the hospice Monday afternoon and said nothing was wrong with his daughter when he left.

He said he did not insert a needle into his daughter's arms.

Clearwater police were investigating the incident after Schiavo's husband called them to the nursing home Monday.

Terri Schiavo was undergoing blood tests and other toxicology screenings Monday night at the hospital. No charges were filed.

"Our posture right now is we have to wait and see what the hospital says," said Wayne Shelor, Clearwater police spokesman.

Schiavo collapsed on Feb. 25, 1990, from a suspected chemical imbalance that some doctors think was related to bulimia. She has remained in a vegetative state, but feedings have kept her alive.

Her husband and parents have been battling in court over her fate for years.

Schiavo's husband says she told him before her illness that she would not want to be kept alive. He petitioned the courts in 1998 to remove her feeding tube.

Schiavo's parents doubt she had any such end-of-life wishes and believe she could be rehabilitated with therapy.

After five years of litigation over Terri Schiavo's wishes and fate, her feeding tube was removed Oct. 15.

A massive campaign by religious conservatives across the country pressured lawmakers and Gov. Jeb Bush to step in and save her. The Legislature passed a law Oct. 21, and her feeding tube was reinserted that evening.

In December, Schiavo was moved from the Hospice of the Florida Suncoast in Pinellas Park to the Park Place facility while the hospice undergoes renovation.

Monday's incident adds another wrinkle in the legal saga. Schiavo's husband issued orders denying visits by anyone until the police investigation is complete.

"Mrs. Schiavo was found in a disheveled state with her feeding tube wrapped around her back and an allergy band pulled up very tight on her arm like a tourniquet," Felos said in a press release. "On one arm were four fresh puncture wounds with another fresh puncture wound on her other arm. Also found were fresh scratch wounds, over the puncture wounds as if an attempt were made to conceal the puncture wounds."

Pat Anderson, the Schindlers' attorney, called the development a "ruse to cut off" visits by Terri Schiavo's parents.

"I tell you what it looks like to me," Anderson said. "They're accusing the parents of abusing her, which is insane because the parents have been fighting to take care of her."

Felos, the attorney representing Schiavo's husband, stopped short of accusing Schiavo's parents in the incident but said they were her only visitors Monday.

"Maybe one of their quack doctors told them, "Here, we have a substance that can help Terri get better, but it has to be injected,"' Felos said.[Last modified March 30, 2004, 01:35:43]

[RGSpincich]

http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=1746904

Clearwater, Florida-AP -- Florida authorities are investigating a mystery surrounding a severely brain-damaged woman who's been at the center of a right-to-die case.

There's word that Terri Schiavo (SHY'-voh) was taken to the hospital from a nursing home -- after nursing home workers noticed punctures on her arms that apparently were caused by a hypodermic needle.

Hospital officials are conducting blood tests. A lawyer for the woman's husband says a needle cap was found in Schiavo's gown. He says a nursing home worker discovered the marks yesterday after a 45-minute visit from the woman's parents.

Her father told a Tampa T-V station (W-T-S-P) that nothing seemed out of the ordinary when he left yesterday. He says he didn't put a needle into his daughter's arms.

She's been in a vegetative state for years. Her husband wants to take her off life support, but her parents want to keep her alive.

[BlessedBeGod]

Thanks for posting this!

[MindBender26]

So far, no coverage from Bay Area stations. Only Orlando, AP and Jonesboro, AR!?!?!

[MrsEmmaPeel]

Oh, gosh. Should I call the cops because it took three sticks to get a blood test from me last month?

If those that are sticking you want you dead, sure.

[Jackie-O]

I would not put it past creepy Mike Shiavo to set his former in laws up. Get their visits cut off so they cannot monitor her condition. These people have fought so hard for their daughter's life, why on earth would they do something like that?
This man is dangerous. He's pissed off that he can't play God with Teri's life.

[AAABEST]

Typical crass statement from our resident pro-death "Republican" who campaigns for pro-death politicians and shows outward hatred for those who support life by not voting for his pro-death Nazi candidates.

[pickyourpoison]

I understand the HINO wanted no cameras in the room. If he had allowed the cameras, he'd know about these marks and her teeth.
Whatever the hospital finds won't be released to the public unless it makes the parents look bad.

[RGSpincich]

These people have fought so hard for their daughter's life, why on earth would they do something like that?

I don't know but hang on to your hat. I think some ugly truths are about to emerge concerning this case.

[cajungirl]

What kind of ugly truths? Can you be more specific? Are you saying or implying the parents are trying to kill her?

[RGSpincich]

Are you saying or implying the parents are trying to kill her?

Quite the opposite, don't you think?

[Poohbah]

Typical crass statement from our resident pro-death "Republican" who campaigns for pro-death politicians and shows outward hatred for those who support life by not voting for his pro-death Nazi candidates.

Excuse me.

I am pro-life.

I am also opposed to gay marriage, higher taxes, gun control, and a host of other things.

My fury is reserved for those "conservatives" who deliberately throw an election to a pro-abortion, pro-gay-marriage, tax-and-spend gun-grabbing Democrat and claim they're being pro-life in doing so.

If that describes you, tango sierra.

The Schiavo case generates a certain amount of breathless hyperbole that may or may not be connected to fact. I was commenting on that. If you're part of the crowd that is raising the hyperbole-to-fact ratio to well over unity...again, tango sierra.