[Pepper777]

**I suppose you probably think all doctors who thought that Terri wasn't PVS are also quacks, huh?**

The word *quacks* is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too good for those who diagnosed Terri as PVS. There's no stinking way a person is PVS, who speaks words to their therapists within months of their injury.

IIRC, Dr Hammesfhar, recommended some sort of oxygenated therapy for Terri. I couldn't help but wonder if the same type of oxygen therapy, was the same thing that the miner in West Virginia received.

Everything possible should have been done for Terri and if Dr Hammesfhar thought the therapy might help her, then why did Schiavo/Felos/Greer prevent it? And why would others make fun of a doctor who only wanted to help her - then turn around and give a free pass to the ghouls, who would say anything for a buck? I know you think it's lunacy, just like I do, Ohioan.

I heard the audio tape of Terri speaking with her dear Dad. She responded to him. It was difficult for her to do so, which is understandable since she was DENIED speech therapy. Additionally, she was on a respirator for a period time. The scar was visible on her throat. It's my guess that her larynx was damaged.

My sister-in-law, who was brain damaged from an accident and was on a respirator, also had a damaged larynx from the tube of the respirator or the surgery to insert it. Therefore, when she began speaking her voice was strained and horse. Once my sis began speaking, she remember things from years prior to her injury.

As has been stated on the Terri threads many times by others - I've wondered if Terri would have spoken of hidden things, if she were only given the chance?

[Ohioan from Florida]

I think that the treatment that Randy McCloy, Jr. was getting at the beginning of his hospitalization is something similar to what Hammesfahr suggested. They both had something to do with a hyperbaric chamber. Beyond that, I really don't know.

Good to see you around here, Pepper!

[T'wit]

>> IIRC, Dr Hammesfhar, recommended some sort of oxygenated therapy for Terri. I couldn't help but wonder if the same type of oxygen therapy, was the same thing that the miner in West Virginia received.

Interesting question. I just ran a quick search and found the answer on the first hit. The answer is, yes, the same treatment that Dr. Hammesfahr recommended for Terri. It's called hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT). From a recent CNN story about that miner:

>>McCloy has received three treatments in a hyperbaric chamber designed to pump pressurized oxygen into his system to combat the effects of the oxygen deprivation and carbon monoxide poisoning he suffered.

HBOT was devised and first used for treating the "bends" in deep sea divers. Its applications have steadily widened over time. Here it was used to combat carbon monoxide damage -- we call it "poisoning" but its effect is to deprive the body of oxygen. Thet's the same sort of injury Terri suffered. The front area of Terri's brain was deprived of oxygen by an unknown agent. (The rest of her body, including rear areas of her brain, was unaffected by any oxygen deprivation, which is focused and important information about what caused her alleged "collapse.")

Earlier in this thread, I mentioned the death of an in-law relative in my family. That was carbon monoxide. An RN friend advised that while the heart is beating (it was), there is hope to reverse some or all of the carbon monoxide damage. Nevertheless, this person went through the "Harvard Conditions" tests, was adjudged brain dead, and carved up for spare parts -- while her heart was beating.