Woman in 'Vegetative' State Like Schiavo Wakes for Three Days, Speaks, Eats Cake - Relapses

LifeSiteNews ^ | 3/7/07 | Hilary White

[wagglebee]

COLORADO SPRINGS, March 7, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A woman who spent nearly seven years in a coma, woke up for a short time Sunday and started talking. Christa Lilly, a native of Colorado Springs, relapsed into her previous unconscious state today.
 
Lilly suffered a heart attack and then a stroke in November 2000 and was diagnosed as being in a "vegetative" state but with her eyes open. Like Florida's Terri Schindler Schiavo, she is being kept alive by a feeding and hydration tube while unconscious.

  
During her short period of wakefulness, Lilly spoke with CBS affiliate KKTV news reporters, saying, "I think it's wonderful. It makes me so happy." She said that she was having difficulty re-learning how to speak, but was eating cake. Lilly had experienced periods of wakefulness before, but had never spoken.
 
The neurologist overseeing her case, Dr. Randall Bjork, told reporters that he had no answer why Lilly woke up. "This is all mystical and I can't explain it."
 
The so-called persistent vegetative state diagnosis is commonly used to justify the removal of artificial nutrition and hydration tubes and has added fuel to the euthanasia and assisted suicide movement.
 
The diagnosis, however, is increasingly being questioned as more patients such as Lilly wake up unexpectedly.
 
Last year, a report was issued by a group of researchers from Cambridge University in England showing that patients who are apparently unconscious often have more brain functioning than previously suspected. 
 
The research showed that responses to verbal stimuli in a comatose patient were similar to those of conscious volunteers. Dr. Adrian Owen at the Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at Cambridge, told The New York Times he was "absolutely stunned" by the discovery.
 
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
"Vegetative" Patient Shows Conscious Awareness
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/sep/06090804.html

[GlasstotheArson]

Haha, yes. She's in a coma...durr she's not REALLY a person anymore.

I was reading the "supplemental" link provided at the end. I was stifling laughter at their organisation's name "Not Dead Yet" - it struck a chord with me!! I'm an awful person...

-Glass

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Woman in 'Vegetative' State Like Schiavo Wakes for Three Days, Speaks, Eats Cake - Relapses

Whatever. You people need to give this a rest. She's dead and buried.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Not Dead Yet is a top-drawer organization: I love them. I admire them. Check out their website and even better, here's a wonderful ROTFLMAO article that begins like this: "When doctors graduate from medical school, who should decide if they live or die? The parents? The patients? The government?... [continued] HA! HA!

[baubau]

God bless this woman and may our beloved Terri forever rest in peace.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Who's dead? Christa Lilly? Not by a long shot.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

Who's dead? Christa Lilly? Not by a long shot.

Schiavo.

[baubau]

"Who's life is it ?"

Hers to live; all of ours to protect.

Best quote seen in years.

Thank you, Mrs. Don-o, and God bless you and your loved ones.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Yes, Mrs. Schiavo is dead. But she has come to represent those similarly situated --- dear to some, disposable to others --- whose human rights we are committed to defend. So her life has meaning even now. I would not deny her that.

[Robwin]

Oh, hey, but she has relapsed. So may we now kill her by dehydration, please?

[dbehsman]

Whatever. You people need to give this a rest. She's dead and buried.

It's the principle of the matter. I have said this before, and I will say it again.

The real fact of the matter is the deathocrats wanted Terri dead so that they could show that they had power over Bush and the Christian community. The libertarians wanted Terri dead so that they could show that they weren't like Bush or the Christian community. That's the cold hard truth of the matter.

When it all boils down, what we witnessed was nothing more or less than RAW anti-Christian bigotry. Those folks distrust and hate Christianity so much, that they will NEVER take the word of any believer. They will NEVER give any benefit of the doubt to a believer. And they will ABSOLUTELY NEVER admit that they were wrong and the Christians were right.

[skr]

Thank you for letting us know.

[MinorityRepublican]

That's the movie with Richard Dresfyus back in '82.

[NoCurrentFreeperByThatName]

It's the principle of the matter. I have said this before, and I will say it again.

The real fact of the matter is the deathocrats wanted Terri dead so that they could show that they had power over Bush and the Christian community. The libertarians wanted Terri dead so that they could show that they weren't like Bush or the Christian community. That's the cold hard truth of the matter.

When it all boils down, what we witnessed was nothing more or less than RAW anti-Christian bigotry. Those folks distrust and hate Christianity so much, that they will NEVER take the word of any believer. They will NEVER give any benefit of the doubt to a believer. And they will ABSOLUTELY NEVER admit that they were wrong and the Christians were right.

So, if somebody does something that you disagree with, is it because they are anti-Christian? Or are they doing it to defy you simply because you are a Christian?

Don't take yourself so seriously. Nobody but you cares about your religion.

[DeaconRed]

She should be OK as long as her family still wants her alive.
She is doomed if her husband wants her dead so he can marry his girlfriend.

[8mmMauser]

Pinged from Terri Dailies

8mm

[Mr. Silverback]

Not Dead Yet ROCKS!

[Mr. Silverback]

Schiavo.

Those of us who aren't ready to "give it a rest" when a husband uses the court system as a murder weapon against his wife might just be saving your life, sparky.

[Mr. Silverback]

Don't take yourself so seriously. Nobody but you cares about your religion.

I'm not saying that the pro-death crowd would welcome some atheist or Buddhist pro-lfer with open arms, but you are delusional if you think there's no anti-Christian sentiment in the ranks of those promoting abortion and euthanasia. They hate Christianity because it stands for life.

[Old Landmarks]

You have it right.

[rhinohunter]

Well now all we have to do is wait for some tin-pot leftist judge from Boulder to declare that she should be put to death by starvation.

And then watch the CO legislature, the CO governor, the US Congress, and the Executive Branch all say "OK" -- and all offer to shine the leftist judges shoes while they're at it.