Posted on 03/29/2005 5:42:12 PM PST by Former Military Chick
TERRI IS NOT BRAINDEAD, PVS OR IN A COMA!
I was rather young when this happened. I remember hearing the name. It sounds like they did the right thing. Did the article say they ever thought about not feeding Karen?
On the ground freeper TheSarce @ the hospice here.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1373483/posts?page=4
A nasogastric feeding IS a tube that goes through a nostril of the nose, down the esophagus to the stomach. Terri's tube was inserted through the abdomen to the stomach. Different routes, same purpose. So Karen lived with a feeding tube for 10 years after being taken off life support until she died a natural death.
" Karen was never on a feeding tube. She never had a feeding tube placed in her. She was fed through the nasogastric feeding."
Same thing as a feeding tube-only through her nose.
Terri has exhibited the ability to take liquids and soft food without aspiration, something Karen Ann Quinlan could not.
It will be a cold day in hell when the MSM understands and honestly reports the facts of this case.
Then, I read in this article that Mrs. Quinlan grieved during that entire 10 years while her child LIVED after the respirator was removed... she called it dying for 10 years.... and then, grieved after her child died.
It is a strange story.
And, just think Terri was upset at her friend who made a crass joke about Karen Quinlan AFTER she died.
The testimony of that friend, that said Terri stated about Quinlan," where there is life there is hope" was not allowed by Judge Greer because he thought Quinlan died when Terri was 11 not 21. A child of 11 would not have an opinion which could influence a court.
What a pity.. the opinion was from an adult Terri and it STILL did not matter.
What is she, then?
She is brain-damaged.
Well, she is alert and responds. What would you call that?
I asked you the question. What do you call her state?
Thirsty.
Brain damaged and in a minimal conscious state.
And hungry.
She is brain damaged.
Like lots and lots of handicapped people. Should we stop feeding them, too?
How can her adult opinion not matter??
Now it's clear that this trio (M.Schiavo, Greer, and Felos) never had any intention of a due process hearing on what Terri what've wanted. Instead they were only interested in projected their own will on Terri.
>>>Same thing as a feeding tube-only through her nose.
Terri has exhibited the ability to take liquids and soft food without aspiration, something Karen Ann Quinlan could not.
It will be a cold day in hell when the MSM understands and honestly reports the facts of this case.<<<<
It is the same thing, the MSM and the people who fall for their BS are sad.
Is the person writing this article so lazy they could not do a internet search on the nasogastric feeding??
It is pretty self explainatory to me,
..naso=nose gastric=stomach.
Through the nose to the stomach.
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