h'mm. google "Yoshio Hosobuchi"
art. in sptimes 15 yrs ago on this surgery: http://www.sptimes.com/2005/03/24/Floridian/15_years_ago__Terri_S.shtml >> excerpt:
ST. PETERSBURG BEACH - Mike Schiavo vividly remembers the morning of Feb. 25. Usually a late sleeper, Schiavo awakened suddenly about 5 a.m. and started to get out of bed.
"For some strange reason that day, I was just taking the covers off, and then she hit the floor," he said.
[yet another version of what happened 2/25...interesting to add to the mix]
Schiavo's 26-year-old wife, Terri, had suddenly - and as yet inexplicably - suffered a loss of potassium in her body that caused her heart to stop beating. She was rushed to the hospital.
She has been in a coma ever since.
Efforts to bring Mrs. Schiavo out of her coma have become a community crusade.
The city of St. Petersburg Beach passed a resolution Tuesday declaring Feb. 17, 1991, as Terri Schiavo Day. On that day, volunteers plan to conduct a huge beach party to raise money to help pay for an experimental operation that, according to Dr. David Baras, medical director of Bayfront Rehabilitation Center, is Mrs. Schiavo's "last hope."
"The prognosis is poor. Fair at best" without any further treatment, Baras said. "This (surgery) is brand new. It's experimental. It's sort of like our last chance."
Members of the Vina Del Mar Civic Association also have asked city officials if they can name one of the new dune walkovers in Mrs. Schiavo's honor. They hope to raise money by having people buy individual planks on the walkover to be engraved with either their own name or the name of someone they wish to honor.
The operation will be performed by Dr. Yoshio Hosobuchi of the University of California at San Francisco later this month. According to Mrs. Schiavo's family, expenses for the trip to California, operation and subsequent rehabilitation will cost at least $100,000. . . . (end excerpt)
BTW, for this having been so very expensive, and such a community affair,
it is all the more curious that Terri did not receive the followup she was supposed to at UF/Shands --
why not, given what had already been spent?
Does any of this explain why some have been reluctant to speak?