Posted on 11/04/2005 3:24:09 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Family members are investigating what they consider to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a nursing home patient at the center of a life and death tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
Seventy-nine-year-old Jimmy Chambers died in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 after the tracheotomy tubes that deliver oxygen from a ventilator to a hole in his neck became unhooked. Family members were told Chambers, a resident of the Anne Maria Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in North Augusta, S.C., apparently pulled the interlocking tubes apart.
"We're having it investigated. We're just incredulous," Chambers' daughter, Deanna Potter, told WND in reference to her siblings. "The last time I saw dad he was blowing me a kiss. I blew him one and he blew one back."
The retired dispatcher for Holland Motor Express died approximately 10 hours later. His death certificate indicates he died of "natural causes."
"Apparently, suffocation is a 'natural cause' when you're on a ventilator. We're contesting that," said Potter. "He suffocated. He didn't just pass away. He struggled and fought. And I'm just so angry."
Potter estimates it would have taken 10 to 14 minutes for her father, deprived of oxygen, to fall unconscious, and questions why the nursing home staff didn't come to his aid.
"The oxygen-saturation meter and his ventilator both would have had alarms going off. Four-thirty, five o'clock in the morning you'd think someone would hear this," she added. "That's the thing that really bothers me and makes me suspicious."
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Looks like plenty of people are still steamed that Terri was murdered. I think next year's elections are going to be about Ms. Terri.
All evidence to the contrary. Heh.
Ditto on your heh. :)
ANNA...She's the female Michael Schiavo imo.
As in ANYTHING for a buck.
How did you find it? Very good! Wonder if our good buddy takes phone calls?
LesforLife posted #1370 the email of good Buddy so I checked out the .com part and voila!
Have fun.
8mm
There is also a request for prayers.
Maybe we can help save Scott's life.
8mm
The OverCell -Federalism and human life.
8mm
Thanks. I just checked 1370 - somehow I missed it earlier.
My bad, thread above started by Tumbleweed connection.
8mm
Scott has good doctors! Prayers indeed! Pray he can speak on Jan 3!
I will be watching. I am tired of these people who think they have a right to put their spouse to death by starvation and dehydration!
Bingo. Living Wills don't protect anyone.
The goal of a troll (Wow, I'm a poet!) is simply to agitate those with a different opinion on a subject. I actually looked up the definition today.
This thread's subject would attract that kind of harassment, but posters on some other topics have experienced this, too. Guess I don't have to tell you that...I'm sure you know.
For me, I simply like the opportunity to express myself on subjects that I care about and to those who think the way I do.
Was it last year that we heard about one child abduction and murder after another. The whole country felt the horror...and fear for their own children.
As for the Florida judges who had any role in killing Terri Schiavo, they could be executed (fat chance) and I would not blink an eye.
No politician IMO is going to try to get Greer impeached. Even if they got the votes in the FL congress, can you imagine the FL Supreme Court agreeing?
I think he deserves to be kicked out, along with Bishop Robert Lynch. I'd enjoy seeing the both of them sitting at a bar together crying in their beers.
Lynch's statements in regard to the starving of Terri were, in my mind, beyond belief.
A Catholic bishop!!!
"Oh...really? But just a few posts ago (here), you said it was "monica."
And when she wrote that, I took it to mean "His Monica Lewinsky". Figurative, not literal. Perhaps you should read it again with new understanding.
I could post her picture here but this is about criminal www.judgegeorgegreer.com, not about Shames.
Everyone at FR knows what a "monica" type is.
Read much news? Remember the CLINTON IMPEACHMENT? Remember the finger shaking? THAT MONICA, THAT WOMAN. I was making a parallel but obviously, it went right over your head.
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