Posted on 03/18/2005 6:45:48 PM PST by Keyes2000mt
An attorney for Terri Schiavo said the severely brain-damaged woman cried and yelled out that she wants to live after being told today her life-sustaining feeding tube was about to be removed by court order.
Barbara Weller was in Terri Schiavo's room at the Woodside Hospice in Pinellas Park, Fla., when the encounter took place, according to activist Randall Terry, who spoke with WorldNetDaily from outside the building as demonstrators continued a vigil.
If true, the report apparently refutes the court's finding that Terri Schiavo is in a "persistant vegetative state" and cannot currently express her wishes. Her husband, Michael Schiavo, contends she had indicated she would not want to live in such a condition, but parents Robert and Mary Schindler dispute that and suspect he is responsible for the 1990 incident in which oxygen to her brain was temporarily cut off, causing severe brain damage.
Weller essentially told Terri Schiavo, "You had better say you want to live or they will kill you. Just say you want to live."
Schiavo responded with a drawn out, "IIIIII," then screamed out "waaaaaaaa" so loudly that a police officer stationed outside the room came in.
The officer then ordered Weller removed from the room, according to Terry.
The event was witnessed by Terri Schiavo's sister Suzanne Vitadamo and Suzanne's husband Michael.
"I talked to Suzy and Michael, and they both said it was unbelievable," Terry said. "It was very articulate, for Terri, but they also say this is normal [for her to communicate]."
Terry explained the family says Schiavo often is talkative, though similar to a 10-month-old.
"The words usually are not discernable, but she's responsive to commands, uses slow diction and her voice lilts to show emotion and context," he said.
Weller teared up after hearing Schiavo respond today, Terry said, and indicated Schiavo was crying.
Terry has established a website, helpterri.com with information about how to get involved, including phone numbers of lawmakers and details of a rally and lobby-training sessions to be held next week in the Florida capital, Tallahassee, beginning Monday.
"We need people there Monday night, people who have never lobbied before, to come, and we're going to be begging the [Florida] Senate to get its act together," Terry said.
I'm completely on Terri's side. I want her to get every chance to live and possibly recover. But there's something that concerns me about this report. Is it a typo? Or is there another Terri?
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...The officer then ordered Weller removed from the room, according to Terry. [Terri who?] ...
..."I talked to Suzy and Michael, and they both said it was unbelievable," Terry said. [Terri who?] ...
So did somebody record Terry saying this or not?
Newsmax has a similar report. I just find this version a bit confusing. Terri Shiavo was having trouble speaking articulately, so those articulate quotes aren't of her. I appreciate the WND's efforts, but right is right. Might be a typo. Either that, or another Terri not clearly mentioned here. FReegards....
Me bad. Randall Terry. Not Terri. Sorry. Sorry. Sorry. FReegards....
I guess this is a lesson to us all. Have your wishes in writing and don't trust someone to do what you want.
BUMP
: )
When is somebody gonna re hook that feeding tube????
Not sure why, but THIS TUNE popped into my head while eating breakfast and thinking about this article:
Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again, Naturally Lyrics
In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally
To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally
It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?
Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally
Check out my post #229 above. ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Death is kind of permanent.
FReegards....
Death is kind of permanent.Yep. As my ex-cousin-in-law used to say a LONG time ago:
I wouldn't mind bein' dead if it weren't for the fact you're dead for so long.
And Death Troll senators using Terri as a bargaining chip...
[Chucky Schumer specifically mentioned]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1365320/posts?page=1
Yep, the creeps!I've noticed the Trolls flock to these Terri threads here lately.
"Conservative auto worker" ZOTTED on deleted post #2 there.
Then Terri's sister Suzanne Vitadamo is lying about this also?
Thanks for the ping!
I heard Tom DeLay last night on Michael Reagan's talk show, and he and others are working all this weekend to resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions of the Bill, so that when they vote on it that it will be passed into Law. They are meeting on Monday to vote on it.
But he also said something very chilling: He said that Terri will probably not last as long this time and that she could be dead within 2-3 days. They are monitoring things closely, it sounds like, and if Terri becomes critical the president can call an emergency session of Congress to vote on this Bill.
It's important that we let our legislatures know TODAY that we are expecting them to get their act together and work out their differences between the House and the Senate and pass into Law immediately the Bill that will not only save Terri but will also stop this horrendous tide of euthanasia that is going to sweep our country if they don't stop their partisan monkeying around and bowing to this arrogant Judge Greer and all his cronies.
Use this link to contact your Senators and Representatives; it's VERY easy to do:
http://www.capwiz.com/nrlc/mail/oneclick_compose/?alertid=7260151
And once you send it to them, use the form to send that page too everyone you can think of that will also contact their legislatures.
THEN write to President Bush at president@whitehouse.gov and urge him to call an emergency session of Congress this weekend to get this Bill voted on and passed into Law.
And MOST OF ALL, let's pray fervently like we've never prayed before.
There's way too much at stake here to sit on our hands and just let this all happen.
Listen up...the GOP have done all they can do, it is up to the courts...DON'T LET THIS ISSUE WORK IN THE RATS FAVOR!! So you really think any other party cares at all about Terri?? We in the GOP need to stick together, not find wedge issues to divide us.
Speaking of being zotted, one particular sharp poster, Blast_Master, was suspend [deleted?]. I've been working on an elaborate response for a number of hours. He was the most articulate one I had come across.
[BTW, thank you for checking out the above link. A freaking outrage!]
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