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I forget who asked me about the amounts awarded to Terri in the malpractice suits. But I have the figures here. In the first suit, the doctor (or rather, his attorneys) settled for $250,000. (The doctor was furious about it and got exonerated later by a state board.) The award was to Terri, but nobody (except Michael) knows where the money went.

In the other two suits (failure to diagnose the bulimia that did not exist), Michael was awarded $686,700 for loss of consortium (but wasted no time not losing any consortium!). Terri was awarded $1.56 million. I believe these sums were later rounded to a total of $2 million, $600,000 for Michael, $1.4 million for Terri.

Michael rejoiced in Terri's assurance of care and therapy for life by buying himself a new sports car and refusing to provide Terri any therapy. You can pick up a lot of consortium with a new sports car. "I'm going to be rich!" he exclaimed out loud to Terri's nurses. He'd ask, "When is she going to die?" "Has she died yet?" "When is that bitch going to die?" (Translation: "the bitch" is worth a lot of money to me dead.)

With a month or so -- Valentine's Day -- Michael flew into a rage at the Schindlers when they asked when he would begin Terri's therapy. After that, they never spoke again. Michael's hatred was such that he admitted in court he was using Terri to hurt the Schindlers.

Within a few months more, he tried to kill Terri by ordering the facility to withhold antibiotics when she developed a urinary tract infection. Ladies, take notice. Don't we just love our husbands when they try to let us die in agony from a UTI? (Terri most certainly could feel pain, too.)

One other little detail. Michael never contributed his own money to the noble cause of carrying out Terri's purported wish to die. Oh, it was his sacred promise, but not so sacred that he'd spend any of his own money on it. No, sir, he nobly used her money to pay the attorneys and all other costs of killing her, including some of his own expenses. What was his was his. What was hers was his too, if only the bitch would hurry up and kick off.

Michael claimed that Terri's money was exhausted at the end. But only hours after she died, before her body was cold, he and attorney Deborah Bushnell raced to court to file a claim for Terri's estate. Couldn't wait even one day. I guess he was too busy with his banking to grieve.