Neurologist: Boy still in coma, but 'definitely improved' (using cutting-edge treatments & vitamins)
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- (this includes Ohioan from Florida's ping list, update to May 17.)
Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Posted on 05/30/2006 11:14:37 AM PDT by KevinNuPac
Terri's Day and nation's independence protects life culture
Kevin Fobbs May 29, 2006
America's Culture of Life is truly the legacy of one woman whose death forever changed our nation because of actions that were not in her hands but in those of her husband and his lawyers. Yet for millions of Americans we will forever link our own celebration of our nation's independence to the courage of the Schindler family to go forward past the tragedy, past the personal sorrow, past the searing anguish to help America draw a distinct line in the sand, to issue a clarion call to America.
Our 4th of July is coming... Our Culture of Life Independence Day is on its way. Our month of Independence is a message that March 31st (Terri's Day) will signal, that July 4th will signal... and that the month of July will signal to defend the Culture of Life before we lose it forever.
When we talked with our family members or even our neighbors or our friends we may have spent but a moment reflecting upon why we are even gathered on a Memorial Day afternoon. Do we think about the sacrifice of our soldiers and of their families? Do we think about the long goodbyes which are never long enough... as the military families send their loved ones to war, to battle, to stand firm for our freedoms... for our life... for our nation and its values of faith?
How does Terri Schiavo and her legacy tie into this? Terri's legacy and Terri's Day is a representation of a right to live, and freedom to have the liberty to not have it compromised away, devalued by inconvenience, or litigated away by judges who celebrate a culture of death that would rob life from the womb, steal life from a hospital or hospice bed, and destroy and shatter a family's love for a daughter, a sister and aunt who was given a gift from God, but had it separated from her as easily as an ant would have its life take by an uncaring shoe... extinguished forever.
The families who send their loved ones off to war have to wonder as well, does America value their sacrifice? The families of the military have to wonder just where does its society draw the line on its values? A soldier who is in battle in Iraq or Afghanistan has to wonder if a Florida judge can take away the life of an innocent, what is the measure of his life? Would a judge in America suddenly decide that if he were injured, if he had to sacrifice a limb that the protesters outside his hospital bed would have more rights than he would or his family? Would this soldier have to wonder that if he or his fellow soldier were killed in battle, that upon their return that the protesters who would stand outside of his funeral... have more rights to be protected than the rights his family would have to a military burial with honor?
You see, the Culture of Life is about Terri Schiavo, because Americans now have to examine the life of our culture itself. We have to wonder if we as a nation of Christians and of a nation of faith and of a nation of compassion would allow for a state to murder an innocent woman and strip her family of their loved one then as a nation would we allow America to have other symbols of life, of our nation to be peeled away as well, all in open sight and in plain view of a dispassionate nation?
What does our American Culture mean if we allow millions of illegal aliens to literally browbeat us into submission by demanding that because they have stolen across our borders, demanded and received protection from local law enforcement in numerous cities throughout the U. S., obtained free or reduced educational opportunities by state public colleges that our own children could not qualify to receive the same financial aid assistance for. Are we that defenseless to let illegals strip our state coffers of housing assistance for loans and mortgages when tens of thousands in almost every state in America have legal citizens who are homeless, impoverished, or working poor or middle class Americans who need similar assistance but cannot receive it. And they are legal! They are citizens! They are Americans.
What is so wrong about our nation when we are so ready to compromise our freedoms, our culture's life, the life of an innocent and the taking of any life is the taking of our own children's life and their child's. And with each successive generation the nation and its life, its values, its traditions, and its language will disappear because we as Americans were too preoccupied — too narrow — to see that an illegal alien was taking your child's education, that a crusading death culture judge was preparing a bed, a room, a legal precedent to take your child, grandchild or sister or parent.
That is why I have stayed my course to defend the Culture of Life and to ask my fellow Americans to begin to understand that as Terri Schiavo's life was slowly ebbing from her body and as her mother Mary, father Bob, sister Suzanne, and brother Bobby waited in the Florida early morning air on March 31st, 2005, America was having part of its soul ebb away as well.
What will it take to spark an interest, a concern, and a passion for protecting one's own life? Some may say that it would take a clear and present danger — like tanks rolling down your neighborhood street or another 9/11 that strikes at the heart of America. Do we have the convenience to wait? Do we wait until a state legislature in Maine or California or Delaware or Ohio or Illinois decides that your mother's decision to live is determined by a hospital "bean counter" who decides that your mother's life is not based upon a "Will To Live" but an ability to pay her bill? What about a baby, not born, but already set for murder in the womb — not because the mother is pro-life or pro-death but because "the law" says the unborn baby's life is expendable because the baby's genes are determined to be part of a class or a group or a race or of an ethnicity which pre-programs the child, un-born, to death?
America is being murdered in small pieces. It is seeing its values, its life, its culture disemboweled with the finesse of a skilled surgeon. And it is America's poll takers and its legislators and its uncaring, disinterested, and uninvolved who are handling the scalpel. Take the scalpel away. Contact www.Terrisfight.org to join the Foundation's battle to educate America about the right to live. Go to Terri's Day on www.kevinfobbs.com to learn about new updates on Terri's Day and the event to celebrate the Culture of life.
So on Independence Day and Independence month of July will we have any Americans who will sign up and join the Culture of Life movement in their community? Even if it is to sign a pledge, hand out a flyer, become aware of legislators and judicial candidates who have agreed to stand firm for the Culture of Life — a crusade that is based not only upon the life of Terri Schiavo's legacy but equally crucial based also upon the legacy of the right to live, to defend our culture and the life of its values.
Terri's Day is not the end of a national movement but the beginning of a national contract with itself to stand for a future that our nation can guarantee for its children and for a culture that will insure life. The right to live will be Terri's legacy — our legacy... one nation under God. Join us in your homes, on your family picnics, out camping and celebrating July 14th and 15th ... Our American Culture of Life belongs to each and every one of us... We must protect it. Let's celebrate together.
Kevin Fobbs is President of National Urban Policy Action Council (NuPac), a non-partisan civic and citizen-action organization that focuses on taking the politics out of policy to secure urban America's future one neighborhood, one city, and one person at a time. View NuPac on the web at www.nupac.info. Kevin Fobbs is a regular contributing columnist for the Detroit News. He is also the host of The Kevin Fobbs Show: go to: ,www.kevinfobbs.com. To contact him go to: kevin@kevinfobbs.com.
© Copyright 2006 by Kevin Fobbs http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/fobbs/060529
Governor sides with nurse in trouble for Schiavo remarks
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I smile sheepishly.
Man's brain rewired itself in 19 years after crash
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CRIST CAMP BULLYING TOM GALLAGHER: Crist's machine wants Gallagher to drop out. Guess what? They are trying to bully Gallagher like they bullied Katherine Harris. I wouldn't be surprised if they're not the same gop machine (the bullies of the Fla GOP).
Crist is too lazy to run a campaign and give Floridians a primary choice.
How did he have loss of consortium when he was making babies with concubine Jodi? He alleged loss of consortium but he was consorting just fine with a co-adulterer. The adultery should have precluded Michael from being a guardian but thanks to corrupt Judge Greer, they killed her.
We just need a PI to find out of they are related.
Then the entire Terri matter would have to be re-visted because it would open up the corruption issues that even Charlie Crist would get caught up in. HE's trying to run a campaign. How embarassing that Crist could get caught finally before the September primary because all would be revealed about his ties to murderous Judge Greer. Remember Greer's campaign mgr's son is managing Crist's campaign. Freepers who aren't from Pinellas have no idea that they are supporting a criminal enterprise when they are for Crist.
Further, they somehow believe that they will clean their hands if they can pretend long enough and hard enough that what they did was somehow okay. Too bad they don't realize that the key to absolution (psychological as well as religious) is repentance.
Before the malpractice trial, didn't the doctor who installed the probes indicate that they should be removed? After the trial, Terri's trust fund certainly had enough money for their removal; on what basis was the doctor's advice not followed?
Even Jay Wolfson, however, seemed to think new swallow tests would be appropriate. He may have been unwilling to impugn the honor of Greer et al., but not realized the extent to which having Terri actually take a new swallowing test might do so.
I am pretty sure that was a trap. The price Wolfson put on a swallowing test -- which she was almost certain to fail at that point -- was her death if she failed. The coroner noted that her capacity to swallow had atrophied over the years. ("Thank" Michael for that.) It was ten years earlier when the nurses could feed her Jell-o and fruit juices and report, "no aspiration." I'm afraid time and neglect took their toll.
Still -- no problem if she has a feeding tube.
Oh, ewe!
Terri wanted to sue Jodi for loss of consortium. She didn't actually file papers, but I overheard Scott and Joan Schiavo saying they heard Terri's wish to sue Jodi. I'd call that clear and convincing evidence, wouldn't you?
Still -- no problem if she has a feeding tube.
A point which also needs to be brought up is that a person will be considered to "fail" a swallow test if the examiners believe there is significant risk of aspiration, the idea being that in such cases a feeding tube is safer than oral feeding. Such failure implies that there's no possibility that oral feeding might be successful--merely that it's not worth the risk when safer methods of feeding are available.
Unless Michael is a complete fool, he must have known that allowing Terri's parents to try unsuccessfully to feed her would only bolster his case. Therefore, since I don't judge Michacel to be a complete fool, I think he was well aware that if given a chance to swallow food and liquid she would in fact do so.
I'm inclined to agree, but nobody can really say. It is one of those questions we'll have to ask God later on. However, in 1995 I would have given odds that she could survive on oral feeding.
Neurologist: Boy still in coma, but 'definitely improved' (using cutting-edge treatments & vitamins)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1666973/posts
A neurologist from Washington, D.C., an autonomic nervous system specialist from Philadelphia and a neuron-psychologist and psycho-pharmacologist -- both from Manhattan -- have spent a lot of time with Steven Domalewski lately. They, and others, have been at his bedside in a Paterson hospital, using cutting-edge treatments while trying to bring the 12-year-old pitcher out of a coma.
"He's progressing at a really good rate," Dr. Philip De Fina said Friday. "He has definitely improved. His alertness has improved. His dad has been feeding him little bits of Italian ice, and he's breathing very well on his own." De Fina is head of the Manhattan-based International Brain Research Foundation. He and 10 doctors have swooped in to treat Steven -- for free. Other specialists have also helped. Their goal, they say, is to restore the boy's brain functions to a point where he can walk and talk.
Steven was pitching in a Wayne Police Athletic League game June 6 when a batter lined a ball into his chest at the exact millisecond between heartbeats. The impact caused an extremely rare condition called commotio cordis in which the heart stops. That deprived Steven of oxygen for an undetermined amount of time, causing damage to his brain. He remains at St. Joseph's Children's Hospital in Paterson in what doctors call a "very light coma."
Neurologist: Boy still in coma, but 'definitely improved' (using cutting-edge treatments & vitamins)
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Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
Michael Schiavo takes on privacy campaign
And this...
“I’ve heard you claim to be for less government,” he wrote. “But how is it less government when you misuse the power of Congress to place your own opinions ahead of the actions of my family?”
State Rep. Angie Paccione, who is running against Musgrave for the 4th Congressional District seat, accompanied Schiavo in the publicity event.
Schiavo visits Musgrave’s office
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MASKED MAURADERS ASSAULT OPERATION SAVE AMERICA EVANGELISTS July 16, 2006
Faces covered with scarves seen at WTO meetings, and holding six feet of PVC pipe to Adam Tennant, from Kannopolis, North Carolina, had just driven into the church parking lot when the unruly mob piled on the car and began beating it with PVC pipe and bashing the windows with their fists. Colorado Right to Life VP, Leslie Hanks ran to a squad car parked across the street and asked the individuals inside why they couldn’t do something to stop it. A gentleman who Peter Haik who claimed to be a local member of the church came to the OSA side of the street and stated that although he disagreed with their members, he supported their right to be there. OSA activists requested that he make that statement clear to the Jackson police officers. Mr. Haik told OSA that the anarchist team was not part of the church and that he supported their arrest. Nonetheless, nothing was done to the violent protestors standing with the National Organization of Woman (NOW,) in opposing the OSA presence in Jackson. OSA street preachers faced clanging pots and pans and shouts of “turn the speakers off, as they tried to share the Word of God with the crowd. Constitutional rights appeared to be on hold as the Jackson police department stated Operation Save America’s founder, Flip Benham asked the police to just do their jobs and noted, “We intend to continue storming the gates of hell and praying for the end of the wicked practice of abortion in Jackson until babies are safe in their mother’s wombs.” To this point, no formal complaint has been filed, although Adam Tennant filled out Pro-life stalwart, Ken Scott of Denver, requested that a police supervisor be called to weigh in on the matter of whether assaults are allowed on private property in Jackson, Mississippi. Officer Jenkins stated that a supervisor would be called but none ever showed up to The Word of God was preached over loudspeakers to the lost by Pastor James Kitchens, with Jackson’s The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ. Several post abortive women told their stories but were shouted down and mocked as they tried to share the truth of how abortion hurt them personally. “World Can’t Wait” has a Day of Mass Resistance planned for October 5, 2006.
Jackson, Mississippi
A team of Operation Save America (OSA) evangelists and pro-life activists attempted to attend the Unitarian Universalist Church of Jackson this morning and were greeted by a phalanx of anarchists obstructing the entrance to the “church.”
block access to the church drive way, the crowd of protestors with an anti Bush Administration organization “World Can’t Wait” erupted in to a violent attack on Adam Tennant’s Honda. The organization web site www.worldcantwait.net lists, Denver late
term abortionist Warren Hern as well as well known author Gore Vidal as advisory board members.
identified himself as an observer for Hinds County stated that it was private property and
that no one had filed a complaint.
that because the anarchists wouldn’t cooperate and give names, nothing could be done
to the individuals who had just perpetrated an assault, resulting in a smashed windshield
and seriously dented car.
a two page chronicle of how his car was attacked and damaged.
address the injustice.
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In "Using Terri," California civil appellate attorney Jon Eisenberg, who promotes himself as "one of the lead attorneys on Michael Schiavo's side," seeks to sound the alarm that the religious Right used Terri Schiavo as part of a grand conspiracy to "take away our rights." Eisenberg's book is a misleading, disingenuous case of the pot calling the kettle "black."
Religious Right 'Using Terri'?
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