Not only did Michael Schiavo collect $10,000 from his wife's life insurance policy and stash the proceeds in a safe deposit box in First Union Bank, but from the time of her sudden collapse in 1990 until approximately the middle of 1992 when the payments stopped, he lived off her paycheck from Prudential Insurance Company, according to his own sworn testimony.
Now, in his book, "Terri: The Truth", he's claiming that from the time of his wife's collapse until he allegedly returned to work three or four months later, he had continued to receive his paychecks from Agostino's where he was employed.
Michael Schiavo: The Whole Truth and Nothing But The Truth?
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According to her, her adult daughter had been previously diagnosed as being in a chronic persistent vegetative state years earlier. A sympathetic physician prescribed Ambien and, after a very short period of time, the daughter began to show gradual but continuous improvements. At the time, this suggested to me that her daughter’s condition may have been misdiagnosed. According to medical intelligentsia, PVS is an irreversible and incurable condition wherein the patient experiences no cortical activity, has no awareness of self or environment and is unable to understand or communicate.
Do We Really Know Everything We Think We Know?
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