This is a post by jy22077 on the Fr. Pavone thread by wagglebee linked upthread.
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Dear Supporters of Terri Schiavo,
Tori Schmanski is a very pretty 17 year girl. A couple of years ago, she was involved in a car accident which resulted in a near drowning in which she suffered an anoxic brain injury.
For over 2 years the family has given therapy and rehab and Tori has undergone stem cell therapy in China.
Tori is still greatly disabled and similar to Terri.
The web site the family has set has been quite popular and has numerous updates. The family has set up a healing campaign with tee shirts, candles, and other things urging to pray for Tori.
Tori’s case I feel is most significant in the fact that Tori has suffered an anoxic brain injury just like Terri did.
This is significant because TBI patients tend to fare better in recovery than anoxic brain injury patients.
That being said, how Tori recovers is much more accurate comparsion to Terri’s case.
The web site allows people to post comments about recent blog entries.
Those who were heavely involved in the effort to save the life of Terri Schiavo should contribute and post their feelings and words of encouragement to the family on the board.
The family needs all the support they can get which why they created this web site.
Some may remember Laura Laughlin. Laura Laughlin was another young beautiful girl who suffered a brain injury as result of a car accident.
She was quite disabled and based on the video footage on her web site seemed less responsive than Terri Schiavo.
The husband created a web site for her to gain support: http://www.lauralaughlin.com/
The web site gained a lot of attention and a remark was made that it was one of the most comprehensive web sites about a person with a brain injury.
Unfortunately, Laura Laughlin died earlier this year.
It is unknown on whether or not she was starved and dehydrated to death like Terri but there was talk before her death the husband was considering removing her feeding tube.
I don’t know if he did or not.
However, the husband has done good work recently with his foundation to research brain injuries: http://www.lauralaughlinl6.org/
The husband was not conflicted like Michael Schiavo was.
The Internet seems to becoming in essential and vital tool for people with brain injuries.
These web sites make it possible to solicate help both financially and medically for their disabled loved one.
Unfortunately, when Terri was injured, the Internet was only in its infancy.
Nevertheless, a web site could still have been set up to get medical and financial help for her condition.
Perhaps this might have been a good use of her guardianship fund to set up a web site in her name to improve her condition.
So take the time to study Tori’s web site and send encouraging or helpful comments or information to the Schmanski family.
They need all the help they can get.
There are several other web sites to chronicling the life and care of several of brain injured patients that need help too. Again, these people have suffered anoxic brain injury which is key.
http://www.getwellkathleen.us/index.htm
http://www.justiceformichael.com/
http://www.mackenzieroecker.org
God Bless you all,
James
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