And I'm just kidding when I say that you do.
Posted on 09/05/2006 4:45:45 AM PDT by 8mmMauser
Boston, MA (LifeNews.com) -- Haleigh Poutre was the victim of child abuse and was nearly killed via euthanasia when Massachusetts officials gave up on her after she entered a coma. Now Poutre, once termed "brain dead" by doctors, continues to improve and is speaking a few words, her grandmother says.
Sandra Sudyka, the girl's biological grandmother, is no longer allowed to visit her granddaughter and now says she is ready to speak to the media about Poutre's condition.
She told The Republican newspaper that she last saw Poutre on July 18 but indicated she was "doing well."
"She was bright-eyed and smiling. She is always responsive to us," Sudyka explained.
Department of Social Services had asked Sudyka not to talk with reporters about Haleigh, but since they will no longer allow her and Haleigh's biological mother, Allison Avrett, to visit the 12 year-old, she said she's going to talk to the media.
"I decided since they broke the deal, I am going to talk. People should know how well she is doing," Sudyka told the newspaper.
"They don't want people to know how she is doing after they wanted to pull the plug," Sudyka said.
DSS spokeswoman Denise Monteiro declined an interview with The Republican but said that the visiting privileges have been suspended, not terminated.
Haleigh first began speaking in June, her grandmother told the newspaper.
"I was saying to her 'I love you,' and she was trying to say 'love' and it came out as a vibration...'ove,'" Sudyka said.
Sudyka, who is working with an attorney to adopt the girl, said she has said hello, responds to comments and questions, speaks nonverbally and is able to write her name. Haleigh can't walk and is confined to a wheelchair.
Avrett, Poutre's biological mother, lost custody of her daughter after physically abusing her. Poutre was put into a foster home where her adoptive parents also abused her. Her adopted mother committed suicide after abusing Poutre so much she had to be hospitalized.
DSS took Poutre into custody and when she appeared to slip into a coma, the agency asked the state Supreme Court for permission to take her life. That's when Poutre began responding.
Poutre has been receiving physical, speech and occupational therapy since January 26 at Franciscan Hospital for Children in Brighton.
Gov. Mitt Romney appointed a commission to look into how the state failed to properly handle the girl's case.
You would make a good point if this was a futile care case, but it's not. Nor is it a euthanasia case per se. It's a case of malpractice and failing to give the kid any chance. What, waiting a few days or even weeks to recheck her condition was too much to ask? The doctors screwed up big time, and the state agency was very fasyt on the trigger, almost suspiciously so.
Can you give me a link on that? I need to refresh my memory, and most of what I've pulled up so far talks about the doctors saying no recovery and the state just going along and wanting to pull the respirator.
Not really. It's fine to euthanize your dog...
Though I stand with you against the culture of death, I support the brain death standard. It is simply true that sometimes so much of the brain has died that the person cannot recover even to a PVS-like state, and cannot breath without help. In such a case, they are dead.
If someone is using the brain death standard to run an organ scam, that just means they're doing the same thing a doctor would do if he heard a heartbeat and pretended he didn't. It doesn't mean the standard itself is bad.
Plus the organs of children are in huge demand, due to their lesser numbers and the importance of the size of the organ.
What exactly do you mean when you say..
"I'm sorry about your son. It sounds like he was not in Florida."....
And if my son had been in Florida, what are you saying here?...do you actually mean to imply that had he been in Florida, that no matter what doctor treated him, or what hospital he had been in, that he would not have received full care?...
I am confident that had my son been in Florida, he would have received the best care possible for his condition, and would have had doctors looking out for him in the best way possible...
Do you actually mean to imply that had my son been treated in Florida, he would have received poor, inadequate care?
I dont understand how anyone can say such a thing, and actually believe it at the same time...
This is what I mean by broadbrushing all doctors in one state, as being out to get everyone...you have just made such a statement, and its regrettable...
Your post #627, is merely your opinion, and not a fact...
And thats fine, everyone is entitled to their own personal opinion, based on how they see things...I would hazard a guess tho, that the majority of Floridians would disagree with your opinion...
And thats fine as well...all different people have many different opinions, which they will voice in the voting booth...you can voice your opinion, and others will voice theirs...you speak for yourself, and others will speak for themselves...thats how things work...
Wow, truly those things are so over the top. You're so bloody sensitive I suspect that you work at Harvard. I promise not to mention families of dump trucks around you.
I have to be out for the rest of the day, will continue on with this later when I return...My real life does consume my time...
One last thing I would say...three of my husbands elderly relatives have died in Florida, within the last couple of years...
One aunt, in her 90s died from a cancerous brain tumor...the docs in Florida, did everything possible for her that they could, and she actually did manage to live quite a bit longer than had been originally thought, simply because of the excellent care she received...
Another aunt, became violently ill on a cruise, due to some ongoing medical problems, and had to be airlifted to her home state of Florida, where another very serious medical condition was diagnosed...the doctors treating her, used every medical means at their disposal to treat her, and when that did not work, they even scoured around, trying to find experiemental trials that would include her in their treatment programs...unfortunatley she died before this could happen...but she was in her late 80s, and no one killed her...she died from her medical problems...
Another uncle, again in his 80s, spent the last few years of his life in a nursing home, due to severe complications from his diabetes, and the extreme care he required...he lived for those years in the nursing home, extremely well taken care of, and lived longer than anyone thought he would, considering his frail state of health...
Three of our elderly relatives living in Florida, all in the Clearwater Florida area, receiving extremely fine medical care, disprove the point, that the elderly in Florida are there only to be poorly taken care of, so that they will die as soon as possible..
And I am sure, that there are many, many posters, just here on FR, who either live in Florida, or have relatives in Florida, who are just as satisfied with their medical care as I have been, with our elderly relatives...
Poor medical care, and superior medical care, is found in all states...Florida is no different...\
And I'm just kidding when I say that you do.
Terri's brain wasn't just dead, it was mostly missing.
Bump for later sending.
You're an a**; I can see you don't mind injecting yourself into something you don't know about and making an idiot of yourself. Good to know.
OK, you're off the list. Take two Steven Wright albums and call me in the morning.
Pot Kettle Black
Just kidding.
Her brain was doing fine after the incident. Here she is some time afterwards and before Mikey had her brain operated upon.
Terri on the road to recovery before the second stage began.
(Lady Macbeth enters with blood covered hands)
Lady Macbeth: My hands are of your color. Come, a little water washes away the deed.
MacBeth, Act II, Scene II
My cat likes ice cream. I'd say that qualifies Terri to be part of the subspecies Felis silvestris catus.
Correction: EEG = fMRI
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