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This is Cranford.

12 Q. Now, let me -- in between the first

13 balloon trial where she tracked and the second

14 balloon trial where you said she did not track

15 you pinched her; did you not?

16 A. You know I don't remember the details.

17 I know I did three trials with the balloon. I

18 did three trials with the teddy bear. And on the

19 one trial with the balloon, I don't remember the

20 exact order, Ms. Anderson, but I thought she did

21 follow for a few seconds. I think you can see in

22 the video.

23 By the way, you can see when the father

24 does it on September 4th he had her follow the

25 lights, so it's obvious that she does have

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1 some -- whether you want to call it tracking or

2 visual-orienting reflex it's obvious at some

3 point she follows for a few seconds a light or a

4 bright balloon. And I saw in one of three trials

5 these observations were with the balloon, but not

6 with the teddy bear.

It is far easier to see light, bright things than dark things. The teddy bear was a poor test, or no test at all, if it was not a bright white color, and illuminated, and moved s-l-o-w-l-y within Terri's terribly limited range of vision. The balloon was better -- bright and shiny -- but Cranford held it too far away. Terri still managed to follow it, and for more than a few seconds. She followed it long enough to earn this compliment from Dr. Ron: "You see that, don't you, huh? You do follow that a bit, don't you, huh?" "That's good!" In fact, she was trying to follow throughout the whole video, but he wasn't giving her the opportunity. He was moving the balloon too fast and holding it outside of her vision range.

And there we are again, Cranford mistook her vision problem for inability to track. He used the wrong object and moved too fast to let her track.

Bob Schindler knew better and had Terri track a bright light. At least Cranford was honest enough to concede that she did track the lights.

Pat Anderson cross-examining Dr. Cranford:

>> you pinched her; did you not?

Good catch, Pat!! That would have ruined the subsequent testing. Terri did not respond well to unpleasant stimuli or people she did not like. She'd go into a shell, sometimes for hours. Dr. Hammesfahr took the trouble to make friends with her before he started testing. Even so, she got mad at him for a whole afternoon, as I recall, because he did a pain test and hurt her a little.

(Genuinely PVS patients cannot experience pain...)