""In connection with a transient dehydration the patient showed a sudden bilateral cortical blindness.""
Bjs1779, the information you posted on *cortical blindness*, is huge. From your report, Terri's cortical blindness was due to dehydration and not a prior condition. The death camp used the finding of cortical blindness in the autopsy, as spin to dispute the fact that Terri could see people, ballons and etc.
Your find is amazing. Michael Schiavo abused Terri all those years by refusing to supply her with glasses. It was obviously that she had vision problems. All one had to do was look at the photos of her wearing glasses (thick ones) as a child. Terri was a real fighter, who over came so many cruel obstacles. Even without the glasses, she obviously needed, she did her best to respond.
The autopsy was used by those who supported Terri's death, to invalidate the videos. Where were the the specialists who could have explained the effects of dehydration and cortical blindness? I sure didn't hear it explained anywhere, except here, by you, bjs1779.
Thank God for FreeRepublic and it's Freepers~!!!!
I don't think there are any. Almost no one dies of pure dehydration by itself in our part of the world, at least not enough to perform these type of studies. JMO
The best place to look, and I think it is off limits for some good reasons, would be the grotesque experiments that the Nazi doctors did. From from what I have heard, they are detailed. I guess that would be irony alright!
Also, Hydrocephalus that Dr. Hammesfhar said she had can impede vision and also cause further brain injury if not treated. Which it was not. Again, no mention of that in the autopsy report that I could see, other than they drained some spinal fluid from the brain cavity with no further comment.