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New Signs of Awareness Seen in Some Brain-Injured Patients
The New York Times ^
| 2/8/05
| Benedict Carey
Posted on 02/08/2005 2:23:11 AM PST by LibWhacker
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To: Wampus SC
New Signs of Awareness Seen in Some Brain-Injured Patients Democrats disavowing Liberalism, signing up as Republicans.
I am sooooo gonna get it for this one!! ;)
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posted on
02/13/2005 4:29:54 PM PST
by
freedumb2003
(We will win with the Sword Of Teamwork and the Hammer Of Not-bickering!)
To: LibWhacker
"He said one study had found that as many as30 percent of patients identified as being unaware, in a persistently vegetative state, were not. They were minimally conscious. Moreover, mental states can change over time, and some patients have almost completely recovered function after being thought vegetative"
The above bears repeating.
We have no RIGHT starving anyone to death vegetative (which Terri Schiavo is NOT) or NOT vegetative but badly brain damaged.
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posted on
02/13/2005 8:34:23 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: LibWhacker
"Thousands of brain-damaged people who are treated as if they are almost completely unaware may in fact hear and register what is going on around them but be unable to respond, a new brain-imaging study suggests."When I cared for some patients at 19 I thought this was an obvious possibility and treated vegetative patients with this in mind. At that time, when I mentioned this to friends attending Nursing School they told me the instructors taught them that this was a REAL possibility. I can't believe this issue is being raised as if it's the first time it has occurred to the medical community. It's NOT.
In society's zeal to institute Euthanasia, it's something many of the people who should know better may have forgotten. I am GLAD these experiments are REFRESHING their memories, and educating others and providing evidence for something many doctors and nurses at one time suspected was true.
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posted on
02/13/2005 8:46:34 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: RadioAstronomer
If you were a little or a lot brain-damaged, your perspective on life would be changed and you would view things differently. I doubt very much, despite what you might now say, you would want to be dead.
None of the people who have awoken from comas said they wished themselves dead or recall wanting to be dead while they were in them. THAT should be enough to give one pause for thought.
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posted on
02/13/2005 8:56:01 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: FreepinforTerri
"What are they going to prove next, that unborn babies are human beings, too?"LOL!!!!!! That's a good one!
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posted on
02/13/2005 9:00:10 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: pc93
To: trussell
That is such an adorable graphic!
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posted on
02/13/2005 9:12:41 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: 2nd amendment mama; A2J; Agitate; Alouette; Annie03; aposiopetic; attagirl; axel f; Balto_Boy; ...
ProLife Ping!
If anyone wants on or off my ProLife Ping List, please notify me here or by freepmail.
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posted on
02/13/2005 9:17:56 PM PST
by
Mr. Silverback
(Chrome wheeled, fuel injected and steppin' out over the line)
To: TAdams8591
69
posted on
02/13/2005 9:20:36 PM PST
by
pc93
To: TAdams8591
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posted on
02/13/2005 9:25:11 PM PST
by
trussell
(I Never Frown, even when I am sad, because I never know who is falling in love with my Smile!!!)
To: trussell
LOL!!!!!
That's cute too!
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posted on
02/13/2005 9:32:49 PM PST
by
TAdams8591
(The call you make may be the one that saves Terri's life!!!!!!)
To: pc93
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posted on
02/13/2005 11:22:23 PM PST
by
windchime
(Hillary: "I've always been a preying person")
To: syriacus
Terri does not want to die.
I agree 100% With all of the neglect her HINO has imposed on her Terri would have been dead a long time ago if that were her wishes. Quite the contrary I see a lady fighting with all her being to live...
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posted on
02/14/2005 12:52:45 AM PST
by
fiesti
(Terri deserves life---Terrisfight.org)
To: LibWhacker
What we need is an instrument that can detect evil. Then if we scanned Michael Schiavo, his lawyers and Judge George Greer, the needle would leap clear off the meter.
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posted on
02/14/2005 6:41:10 AM PST
by
T'wit
(I was so moved by Stephanie Tubbs Jones's call for honest voting, I demand recounts in blue states.)
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