Why, yes, I've heard of it several times! :-)
As for a Thogmartin connection, no. Don't see that we need one. The autopsy was far more damaging to MS than his little army guessed. They couldn't wait to trumpet that Terri's whole brain was gone and that that proved Michael did the right thing.
But the autopsy didn't show any such thing. It showed severe brain damage (which everybody knew) -- i.e., not complete destruction; and that damage was oddly localized to the frontal areas. Some of the networking in the back areas was intact. This was new information and helped account for her ability to function despite the heavy cortical damage. (It is well known that injured brains can rewire or reroute functions in order to restore function.) The findings thus suggested the probable cause of her injury to be loss of carotid arterial blood (which supplies blood to the damaged area of the brain). That reanimates the theory that she was strangled by some means that cut carotid artery flow.
Dr. Thogmartin also shot down the old bulimia nonsense (a preposterous theory to begin with, but it was all they had). He all but ridiculed it -- in proper scientific language, of course.
Maybe you noticed, the trumpeting from Michael's camp followers died out pretty quickly.
They cite snippets from it, such as the M.E.'s view that Terri couldn't swallow safely. That's an inference from records, not an autopsy finding. A perfectly sensible view in textbook terms, too; but not indisputable. Terri did, after all, swallow successfully all the years, and was fed at times. Dr. Hammesfahr was just as sure that she could have been taught to eat and drink by mouth again, and he had the advantage of live observation. Call it a standoff; the matter cannot be proved either way.
Another one they cite is his claim that Terri suffered cortical blindness. IOW, her vision center in the brain was so far gone, she couldn't have had any vision. But she did -- before she was dehydrated. Dr. Hammesfahr, again with first-hand experience, published that she was partially blind but he measured some vision. This discrepancy was probably explained by additional brain damage when Terri was dehydrated.
Incidentally, Dr. Thogmartin made a point of remarking the cortical blindness. He did NOT state that Terri had lost all of her other senses (as certain trolls falsely state based on their own imagined understanding of neurology). Surely he would have, if he thought it to be true. But in fact, he was well aware that she had other senses -- could listen to music, could feel pain (as abundantly recorded in her med files), and so on.
In a word, neither the autopsy report nor its author are anything to worry about, imo.
That is not a stretch T'wit.
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[Acute cortical blindness: a reversible complication of acute kidney failure in a child with burns]
An 11 year old boy was admitted to the Department of Pediatrics Medical School of Vienna with 2nd and 3rd degree burns covering 30% of his body.
He presented with complications--high fever, vomiting, diarrhea and dehydration--which had led to acute renal failure.
After 6 hemodialyses renal function recovered after two weeks and the patient entered a polyuric phase. In connection with a transient dehydration the patient showed a sudden bilateral cortical blindness.
The computerized tomogram (CT) showed vague evidence of an occipital cortical ischemia. We assume that several factors have played a role in this sudden occurrence. As a result of hypovolemia and coincident anemia and electrolyte inbalance, cerebral edema and cortical tissue hypoxia with emphasis in the occipital cortical region developed in the brain possibly already damaged by burn injury. A complete reversal of the clinical state was achieved. The patient was discharged with normal vision and normalized renal function.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=6835679&dopt=Abstract
Terri was without her loving family for the Easter of 2004 and also for Mother's Day. Around Mother's Day, Debra Bushnell, death lawyer, told the Schindlers that due to the allegations, they would have to pay to see Terri to pay for security.
All allegations were false and instead of contacting the hospice physician, the nurses at hospices called Michael Schiavo FIRST.
But, the odd thing is that the Press Release by George Felos about "needle marks" had a time stamp earlier than the time frame that hospice reported the incident to begin with.
Remember Murder She Wrote? Maybe Angela Lansbury should reprise her role and catch some of these bad guys in Fla.